Virginia SOL 2.RL.1

What students need to be able to do

• Retell stories sequentially, including their overall structure, essential story events, and the central message, lesson, or moral.
• Identify a story's central conflict using events from the plot as evidence.
• Describe character's attributes (e.g., traits, motivations, or feelings) and how they respond to major events and challenges.
• Generate predictions about story characters and events using the text.