Writing
Virginia SOL 8.W.1
Write narratives, expository texts, persuasive texts, and reflective texts for specific purposes.
What students need to be able to do
- Writing narratives to develop real or imagined experiences
- Writing narratives to alter existing texts
- Using well-structured event sequences
- Using precise words and phrases
- Using transitional words
- Developing characters
- Conveying sequence
- Capturing action
- Writing expository texts
- Examining topics or concepts
- Conveying ideas and information
- Maintaining clear focus
- Using relevant, well-chosen facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, and examples
- Using multiple credible sources
- Using structures and patterns to clarify relationships among ideas and concepts
- Writing persuasively
- Supporting well-defined points of view effectively
- Using relevant evidence and clear reasoning
- Logically advancing claims
- Writing reflectively in response to reading
- Demonstrating thinking with details, examples, and evidence