Virginia SOL 6.W.2.A.ii
The Standard
Establishing a central idea incorporating evidence and maintaining an organized structure to fit the form and topic.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students choose a clear focus, gather supporting evidence, and group related ideas into paragraphs. They plan, draft, revise, and edit so the structure suits the purpose and topic.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student states one clear central idea and selects evidence that directly supports it. Paragraphs have distinct purposes, follow a logical order, and match the assigned form and topic.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat the topic as the central idea or include evidence that is interesting but unrelated. They may also draft paragraphs in the order ideas occur to them, without grouping related details or revising the structure.
How to Assess It
- Give students a topic and six details, including one irrelevant detail. Ask them to write a central idea, select supporting evidence, and outline three ordered paragraphs.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs sentence strips containing a central idea, evidence, and explanations, then have them build and justify a logical paragraph order.
Ask students to explain in writing how changing paragraph order could make an article clearer or more confusing.
Play an evidence sort game where teams place detail cards under the central idea they support and remove unrelated cards.
Have students write a three-paragraph proposal to the principal, using school survey results as evidence and organizing points by priority.
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