Communication and Multimodal Literacies

Virginia SOL 6.C.1

Develop effective oral communication and collaboration skills.

What students need to be able to do

  • Facilitate and contribute to sustained collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grade six topics and texts.
  • Listen actively through verbal and nonverbal communication and use agreed-upon discussion rules.
  • Work respectfully by building on others' ideas and showing value for their contributions.
  • Ask relevant questions to clarify others' perspectives.
  • Communicate agreement or tactful disagreement with others' ideas using carefully constructed responses.
  • Paraphrase and summarize key ideas being discussed using ample evidence, examples, or details.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of participant interactions and one's own contributions to collaborative work.