English Language study guides

A complete overview of editing, usage, and mechanics on the Virginia EOC Writing SOL: subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement, verb tense, pronoun case, and modifiers, sentence boundaries, punctuation, and capitalization and spelling. Tested with multiple-choice and technology-enhanced editing items, and scored on the Short Paper.

A complete overview of reading literary texts on the Virginia EOC Reading SOL: analyzing theme and central idea, plot and structure, character and point of view, poetry, and the figurative language and devices that run through every literary passage. Tested with multiple choice, technology-enhanced items, and evidence questions.

A complete overview of reading nonfiction texts on the Virginia EOC Reading SOL: determining the central idea, making inferences, analyzing text structure, reading author's purpose and craft, and evaluating argument and evidence. Tested with multiple choice, technology-enhanced items, and paired evidence questions.

A complete overview of the direct-writing Short Paper on the Virginia EOC Writing SOL: understanding the task, analyzing the prompt and planning, the Composing and Written Expression domain, the Usage and Mechanics domain, and how the two-domain rubric scores and combines into the Writing result.

A complete overview of the writing process on the Virginia EOC Writing SOL: planning and organizing, developing and elaborating ideas, revising for unity and coherence, word choice and sentence variety, and the revising and editing item types. Tested with multiple-choice and technology-enhanced items on a student draft.

A complete overview of vocabulary and word analysis on the Virginia EOC Reading SOL: using context clues, breaking words into roots and affixes, telling denotation from connotation, and handling figurative and academic vocabulary. Tested with multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and word-meaning items.