Virginia SOL 9.W.2.A.ii
The Standard
Establishing, supporting, and maintaining a central idea with evidence throughout a piece of writing, organizing ideas in a logical sequence to exhibit unity.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students plan and draft for a named audience and purpose. They develop one clear central idea, choose supporting evidence, order ideas logically, and revise for unity.
What Mastery Looks Like
- The central idea remains clear from beginning to end. Each paragraph develops that idea with relevant evidence and purposeful transitions. Revisions improve focus, order, and fit for the intended audience.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may mistake a broad topic for a focused central idea. They may include interesting evidence without explaining how it supports the main point. They may revise only grammar while leaving repeated, misplaced, or unrelated ideas untouched.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Plan a paragraph persuading the principal to add one school activity. Write a central idea, then list three supporting details in logical order.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups mixed-up sentence strips from a paragraph; students remove one off-topic detail and arrange the rest into a logical sequence.
Ask students to explain how the same school policy argument should change for classmates, teachers, and the principal.
Run an evidence relay where teams sort detail cards under competing central ideas, then justify two choices.
Have students draft an email requesting a community improvement, then revise its evidence and order for a named local official.
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Related Standards
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- 6.W.2.A.ii
Establishing a central idea incorporating evidence and maintaining an organized structure to fit the form and topic.
- 11.W.2.A.ii
Organizing claims, counterclaims, and evidence in a sustained and logical sequence to exhibit unity.
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