Virginia SOL 7.RI.2

7.RI.2 is a Standards of Learning standard. These are the knowledge and skills expectations under it.

• 7.RI.2.A

  Analyze how an author uses text features (e.g., boldface and italics; type set in color; underlining; indentation; sidebars; illustrations, graphics and photogr...

• 7.RI.2.B

  Analyze how an author’s word choice, organizational pattern, and language structure impact the author’s purpose and support the reader’s comprehension.

• 7.RI.2.C

  Analyze how an author’s purpose(s) reflects the author’s perspective (e.g., beliefs, assumptions, biases) and influences the meaning of an informational text.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students analyze how text features, word choice, organization, and sentence structure help readers understand an informational text. They also explain how the author’s purpose and perspective shape the text’s meaning.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students explain how specific features, words, sentence patterns, and organizational choices make ideas clearer or shape meaning. They use text evidence to connect the author’s purpose with beliefs, assumptions, or biases.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may list headings, images, or bold words without explaining how they guide understanding. They may confuse topic with purpose, or call any opinion “bias” without citing language that reveals a perspective.

04

How to Assess It

Give students a short article with a heading, sidebar, and photograph. Ask them to explain how two author choices aid comprehension and how one phrase reveals purpose or perspective.

1. 01

   Cut apart an article’s heading, paragraphs, image, caption, and sidebar, then have groups rebuild it and justify each placement.

2. 02

   Ask students to write: Which three words best reveal the author’s perspective, and what belief or assumption does each suggest?

3. 03

   Play Author’s Choice Match by pairing feature, word choice, and structure cards with their likely effects on purpose and comprehension.

4. 04

   Compare two news reports about the same event, marking differences in headlines, photographs, organization, and loaded words that shape each account.

• 2.RI.2

  The 2nd Grade version of this standard.

• 10.RI.2

  The 10th Grade version of this standard.

• 3.RI.2

  The 3rd Grade version of this standard.

• 1.RI.2

  The 1st Grade version of this standard.