Anonymous wrote:The writing prompt for the Grade 5 Integrated Reading and Writing Component is based off Virginia Standard of Learning 5.7: "The student will write in a variety of forms to include narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive." The same verbatim language appears on the Standards of Learning main document, the Curriculum Framework, and the Test Blueprint available on the VDOE website. It makes sense that VDOE is not sharing with school districts what the specific form of writing will be on the IRW because the state standard is written that students in 5th grade should have experience writing all four forms listed in Standard 5.7.
https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/k-12-standards-instruction/english-reading-literacy/standards-of-learning
Anonymous wrote:My kids are younger and we have no experience with SOLs yet. How are the scores used by the county or school? Are kids kept back if they don't pass or any other consequences?
Anonymous wrote:My kid is going to be absent on that day. I refuse for them to be a Guinea pig.