Virginia SOL 7.RI.3

7.RI.3 is a Standards of Learning standard. These are the knowledge and skills expectations under it.

• 7.RI.3.A

  Analyze ideas within and between selections including how specific sentences, paragraphs, or sections contribute to the development and meaning of ideas.

• 7.RI.3.B

  Compare and contrast how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations or viewpoints of key information by emphasizing different fa...

01

What Students Need to Do

Students trace how particular sentences, paragraphs, and sections build ideas in an informational text. They compare authors’ presentations of one topic by examining emphasized facts, opinions, and reasoning.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students point to exact sentences or sections and explain how each one develops an idea. They compare texts using evidence about the facts, opinions, and reasoning each author emphasizes.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may summarize each text without comparing the authors’ choices. They may label any statement as opinion, or assume different viewpoints mean one author is inaccurate.

04

How to Assess It

Give students two short passages on the same topic. Ask: “Name one detail each author emphasizes, explain its effect, and identify one section that develops a key idea.”

1. 01

   Give pairs printed articles and highlighters to mark facts, opinions, reasoning, and sections that develop each author’s main idea.

2. 02

   Ask students to write: “How does each author guide readers toward a different view of the topic?”

3. 03

   Play Evidence Sort by having teams place quoted details under author, fact, opinion, reasoning, and purpose labels.

4. 04

   Compare two news reports about one school event and discuss how selected details create different impressions.

• 11.RL.3

  The 11th Grade version of this standard.

• 10.RL.3

  The 10th Grade version of this standard.

• 12.RL.3

  The 12th Grade version of this standard.

• 11.RI.3

  The 11th Grade version of this standard.