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Virginia Standards

7th Grade English SOL

All 18 Virginia English standards for 7th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Virginia Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

18 standards

Developing Skilled Readers and Building Reading Stamina

1 standard
7.DSR
Read texts from the middle of the grades 6 to 8 range fluently, cite and locate evidence for inferences, read related texts by topic, and reread when confused.

Reading and Vocabulary

1 standard
7.RV.1
Unlock words through context, roots and analogies, analyze figurative language, and weigh shades of meaning like curious versus nosy, checking a dictionary for precision.

Reading Literary Text

3 standards
7.RL.1
Trace a stated or implied theme through a story, analyze how the central conflict drives the plot, and explain how heroes, rivals and characters who change steer events.
7.RL.2
Analyze how word choice, dialogue, rhythm and sound devices shape meaning and tone in prose and poems, and how characters' differing points of view sway readers.
7.RL.3
Explain how setting shapes a story's characters and plot, and compare how different genres, like a poem and a short story about courage, handle a shared theme.

Reading Informational Text

3 standards
7.RI.1
Write a main idea statement and summary, analyze how a science or history author orders ideas, and check whether an argument's evidence is all relevant.
7.RI.2
Analyze how sidebars and footnotes aid understanding, how word choice and structure serve the author's purpose, and how the author's beliefs or biases color the message.
7.RI.3
Analyze how parts of a text build meaning, and compare how two authors, like two reports on school start times, slant one topic by stressing different facts or opinions.

Writing

3 standards
7.W.1
Write narratives with clear shifts in time and place, sourced explanations using patterns like problem and solution, evidence-based arguments and reflections on reading.
7.W.2
Plan and revise essays around a thesis that takes a position, defending it with precise evidence, transitions, vivid words, varied sentences and a closing section.
7.W.3
Polish drafts for clarity, exact wording, sentence variety and links between paragraphs, then proofread with peers for capitals, spelling, punctuation and paragraphing.

Language Usage

2 standards
7.LU.1
Vary sentences up to compound-complex, match pronouns like who and which to their nouns, choose vivid modifiers, and keep verbs agreeing and in one tense throughout.
7.LU.2
Punctuate sentences without run-ons or comma splices, set off dialogue and quotations correctly, spell common words without slips, and look up uncertain spellings.

Communication and Multimodal Literacies

4 standards
7.C.1
Run and join discussions by listening actively, offering supported ideas, asking probing questions, giving feedback, disagreeing tactfully and judging how the group did.
7.C.2
Give a concise, fact-backed oral report, adjust voice and body language to the audience, answer questions with evidence, and recite a memorized poem with feeling.
7.C.3
Design presentations that blend images, video, speech or text to strengthen a message, and publish media pieces for a set audience with claims and evidence in order.
7.C.4
Explain media persuasion tricks like bandwagon appeals, sort messages into fact, opinion and viewpoint, and compare how well audio, visual and written messages work.

Research

1 standard
7.R.1
Shape a research question, take organized notes from primary and secondary sources, keep only credible ones, paraphrase without plagiarizing, cite and use AI ethically.

The official Virginia documents

The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Virginia's standards, not the official wording, which Virginia Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.