Virginia SOL 8.C.3.A.iv
The Standard
Emphasizes different points of view.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Integrating Multimodal Literacies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students plan and deliver a presentation that combines spoken words with visuals, audio, or text. They use organization, evidence, and design choices to make different viewpoints clear.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student presents at least two viewpoints accurately and supports each with relevant details. Visuals, audio, text, and spoken words help the audience notice the differences between perspectives.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may list viewpoints without showing how they differ. They may use images as decoration rather than to clarify perspective, or give one viewpoint stronger evidence than the others.
How to Assess It
- Give students two short quotes about the same issue. Ask them to create one slide and a 60-second explanation that clearly highlights both perspectives.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs quote cards from two characters; they build a one-slide comparison using color, images, and captions, then explain their choices.
Prompt students to explain how the same school rule might look to a student, teacher, and parent in three brief speaker notes.
Play Viewpoint Match: teams pair claims, evidence, and images with the correct speaker, then justify each match aloud.
Students create a two-minute presentation on a local issue using a news clip, resident quote, and map to highlight competing views.
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