Virginia SOL 4.RV.1

What students need to be able to do

• Develop general academic language and content-specific vocabulary by listening to, reading, and discussing texts.
• Discuss meanings of complex words and phrases acquired through conversations and literature.
• Determine the meaning of complex words using frequently occurring root words and inflectional affixes.
• Use the context of a sentence to apply knowledge of homophones.
• Apply knowledge of morphology, synonyms, and antonyms to determine the meaning of complex words.
• Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs and adjectives.
• Use strategies to infer word meanings.
• Use glossaries, beginning dictionaries, and thesauruses to determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases.
• Use newly learned words and phrases in discussions and speaking activities.