Virginia SOL 6.W.2

What students need to be able to do

• Generate and organize ideas using the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, editing).
• Compose a thesis statement that focuses the topic and introduces the piece clearly.
• Establish a central idea incorporating evidence and maintaining an organized structure.
• Elaborate and support ideas using relevant facts, definitions, details, quotations, and/or examples.
• Use transitions to show relationships between ideas, signal shifts, and make sentences clearer.
• Select vocabulary and information to enhance the central idea, tone, and voice.
• Expand and embed ideas to create sentence variety.
• Provide a concluding statement or section.