Virginia SOL 8.C.3.A.ii
The Standard
Uses pertinent descriptions, facts, and details.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Integrating Multimodal Literacies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students choose facts, examples, and descriptions that directly support a central message. They combine spoken or written words with visuals, audio, or video that clarify key points.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student presents a clear message supported by accurate facts, concrete examples, and precise descriptions. Each visual or audio element adds information rather than decoration.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may add many facts without checking whether they support the main point. They may repeat information across slides and narration or use decorative images that add no meaning.
How to Assess It
- Give students eight minutes to create and deliver a one-slide pitch for a longer lunch period, using one fact, one example, and one purposeful visual.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs printed fact, detail, and image cards about plastic waste, then have them build a three-panel presentation storyboard.
Ask students to write: Which detail best supports our main point, and what would the audience misunderstand without it?
Play Detail Draft: teams choose the strongest supporting item from each set of four, then defend each choice for one point.
Have students create a two-minute school announcement about an upcoming event using a schedule fact, a concrete description, and one useful image.
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Related Standards
- 8.C.2.A.ii
Incorporating pertinent descriptions, facts, details, and examples to support the main ideas.
- 4.C.2.A.i
Using descriptive details and appropriate facts to support themes or central ideas.
- 1.C.2.A
Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details and using appropriate vocabulary.
- 3.C.2.A.i
Using descriptive details and appropriate facts to support themes or central ideas.
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