2024 SOL Instructional Resources
NEW! Facilitator’sGuides for Professional Learning
As announced in the Virginia Education Update (Article 2026-21-250), the Office of English is providing professional learning facilitator's guides to support continued implementation of the 2024 English Standards of Learning, the use of high-quality instructional materials, and the Virginia English Walkthrough Tools. These facilitator’s guides for English Professional Learning are designed to help division and school leaders implement high-quality professional learning across the Commonwealth. Each guide provides a structured sequence of activities, videos, discussion prompts, and resources to ensure participants engage meaningfully with the content. Guides are tailored for specific audiences such as new hires, new leaders, experienced teachers, and teachers moving into new grade levels to support differentiated facilitation at the division and school levels.
For more guidance on navigating and using the guides, review the following presentation: Navigating the Facilitator's Guides (PPT | PDF)
Virginia Language Arts Walkthrough Tools
Building and Division Leaders
- English Foundational Skills Walkthrough Tool Facilitator’s Guide (PDF | Word)
- English K-12 Walkthrough Tool Facilitator’s Guide (PDF | Word)
Teacher Leader
- Connecting the English Foundational Skills Walkthrough Tool to Instructional Practices Facilitator’s Guide (PDF | Word)
- Connecting the K-12 Walkthrough Tool to Instructional Practices Facilitator’s Guide (PDF | Word)
Understanding the Standards
Building and Division Leaders
Teacher Leader
- Understanding the Foundations for Reading and Foundations for Writing Standards (K-1) Facilitator’s Guide (PDF | Word)
- Understanding the Foundations for Reading and Foundations for Writing Standards (2-3) Facilitator’s Guide (PDF | Word)
- Understanding the Foundations for Reading and Foundations for Writing Standards (4-5) Facilitator’s Guide (PDF | Word)
Paired Passages & SOL Blueprints
Building and Division Leaders
- The Role of Paired Texts in Literacy Instruction & Connection to the Assessment Blueprint Facilitator’s Guide (PDF | Word)
Supporting Literacy Comprehension Across Multiple Access Points Webinar Series
As announced in the Virginia Education Update (Article 2025-41-625), the Office of English is providing school divisions and literacy leaders with comprehensive support in utilizing multiple strands of the 2024 English Standards of Learning to bolster reading comprehension using multiple access points for every grade level. These resources are comprehensive in nature and will support all schools.
Elementary Webinars
- Grades K-2: PPT | PDF |
Grades K-2 Webinar Recording
- Grade 3: PPT | PDF |
- Grade 4: PPT | PDF |
- Grade 5: PPT | PDF |
Secondary Webinars
- Grade 6: PPT | PDF |
- Grade 7: PPT | PDF |
- Grade 8: PPT | PDF |
- End-of-Course: PPT | PDF |
English Language Arts Walkthrough Tools
As announced in the Virginia Education Update (Article 2025-37-563), the Office of English is providing school divisions and literacy leaders with the K–12 Comprehension Walkthrough Tool as well as the K–3 Foundational Skills Walkthrough Tool. These resources may be used or adapted by divisions to meet local needs and to support high-quality literacy instruction across the Commonwealth. To support implementation, the Office of English is offering virtual training sessions for school divisions and literacy leaders on both tools.
Considerations for Planning Reading Intervention in Grades 4-8
The Virginia Department of Education's Office of English is providing school divisions and literacy leaders with support for scheduling, planning, and implementing intervention services for students in grades 4–8 through the Considerations for Planning Reading Intervention document. This resource offers key considerations in the following areas: School Personnel, Programs and Implementation, Scheduling Intervention, Instructional Approaches to Support Intervention, and Strategies to Ensure Interventions are Data-driven.
- Considerations for Planning Reading Intervention (Grade 4-8) document
- Considerations for Planning Reading Intervention (Grade 4-8) Overview Webinar (PPT | PDF |
2025 English Professional Learning Webinar Series
As announced in the Virginia Education Update (Article: 2025-20-266), the Office of English is pleased to support the implementation of the 2024 English Standards of Learning through a series of professional learning webinars.
Grade Level Expectations of the Foundations for Reading and Foundations for Writing Standards (Part 1 of a three-part series)
| Grade Band | Files |
|---|---|
| Kindergarten & Grade 1 | PPT | PDF | |
| Grade 2 & Grade 3 | PPT | PDF | |
| Grade 4 & Grade 5 | PPT | PDF | |
Using Data to Support Foundations for Reading and Foundations for Writing Instruction (Part 2 of a three-part series)
| Grade Band | Files |
|---|---|
| Kindergarten & Grade 1 | PPT | PDF | |
| Grade 2 & Grade 3 | PPT | PDF | |
| Grade 4 & Grade 5 | PPT | PDF | |
Effective Student Practice of Foundational Skills (Part 3 of a three-part series)
| Grade Band | Files |
|---|---|
| Kindergarten & Grade 1 | PPT|PDF| |
| Grade 2 & Grade 3 | PPT|PDF| |
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Grade 4 & Grade 5 |
Planning for Integration
| Grade Band | Files |
|---|---|
| Kindergarten & Grade 1 | PPT | PDF | |
| Grade 2 & Grade 3 | PPT | PDF | |
| Grade 4 & Grade 5 | PPT | PDF | |
| Grade 6-Grade 8 | PPT | PDF | |
| Grade 9-Grade 12 | PPT | PDF | |
Purposeful Planning: Planning Standards Based Literacy Instruction (Part 1 of a three-part series)
| Grade Band | Files |
|---|---|
| Elementary | PPT | PDF | |
| Secondary | PPT | PDF | |
Purposeful Planning: Intellectual Preparation (Part 2 of a three-part series)
| Grade Band | Files |
|---|---|
| Elementary | PPT | PDF | |
| Secondary | PPT | PDF | |
Purposeful Planning: Analyzing Student Work (Part 3 of a three-part series)
| Grade Band | Files |
|---|---|
| Elementary | PPT | PDF | |
| Secondary | PPT | PDF | |
Text Dependent Questions
| Grade Band | Files |
|---|---|
| Elementary | |
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Secondary |
PPT | PDF| |
Overview of Writing Instruction
| Grade Band | Files |
|---|---|
| Elementary | PPT | PDF | |
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Secondary |
PPT | PDF | |
Foundations for Writing
| Grade Band | Files |
|---|---|
| Kindergarten - Grade 1 | PPT | PDF | |
| Grade 2- Grade 3 | PPT | PDF | |
| Grade 4- Grade 5 | PPT | PDF | |
Developing Skilled Readers & Building Reading Stamina Webinars
In March 2025, the Office of English hosted grade-specific, live webinars that explored how the DSR standards are met through content-rich texts read by students. These webinars provided expectations for the grade-band for students to fluently read complex texts, purposefully gather textual evidence from a variety of texts and genres to support claims, conclusions and inferences, and understand how intentionally selected texts provide opportunities for students to read widely about a topic to gain knowledge and expand their vocabulary. The video webinar recordings and scripted slides, found in the table below, walk participants through how to anchor all literacy learning in the DSR strand.
| Grade Band | Files |
|---|---|
| Kindergarten- Grade 1 | PPT | PDF | |
| Grade 2-Grade 3 | PPT | PDF | |
| Grade 4-Grade 5 | PPT | PDF | |
| Grade 6-Grade 8 | PPT | PDF | |
| Grade 9-Grade 12 | PPT | PDF | |
Overview of the 2024 English Standards of Learning Webinar
In February 2025, the Office of English provided live opportunities for literacy leaders and educators to attend an overview webinar of the 2024 English Standards of Learning. (Webinar Recording - February 12, 2025, PPT Slides, PDF Slides)
Grade Level Instructional Guides and Recorded Grade Level Webinars
The K-12 English Instructional Guides provide English and literacy educators support with the implementation of the 2024 English Standards of Learning. Instructional Guides are currently available on the 2024 English Standards of Learning webpage. The video webinar recordings and scripted slides, found in the table below, walk participants through how to read and use the instructional guides.
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Understanding the Standards
The Understanding the Standards document offers targeted instructional guidance on grade level content and instructional practices. Details within each grade level document provide in-depth explanations regarding the expectations for what should be included during instruction. Grade level Understanding the Standards documents are currently available on the 2024 English Standards of Learning webpage.
Grade Level Side-by-Sides
The Grade Level Side-By-Side charts show the vertical progression of the standards across grade levels and can be utilized to support planning for appropriate scaffolds to meet grade level expectations and extension opportunities for students. The Bridging Grade Level Side-By-Side charts show vertical progression of the standards at the transition grade levels and can be utilized to support instructional planning for the bridging grades that transition to the next grade band level. Grade level Side-By-Side and Bridging Side-By-Side resources are currently available on the 2024 English Standards of Learning webpage.
English Standards Crosswalk
The Crosswalk Document supports educators with understanding the new structure and rigor of the 2024 English Standards of Learning and provides an overview of the revisions to the 2017 English Standards of Learning. Components of the resource include a summary of the content in each content strand, a comparison chart between the 2017 English SOL and the 2024 English SOL, and summary charts documenting the changes in each grade level.
Overview of Revisions
The Overviews of Revisions provide grade-level specific overviews of the changes in both the structure and content of the 2024 English Standards of Learning and explain the increase in rigor and academic expectations from the 2017 English Standards of Learning. Grade level Overview of Revisions are currently available on the 2024 English Standards of Learning webpage.
Narrated Overview of Revisions Presentations
These PowerPoint presentations highlight significant changes and revisions in the 2024 English Standards of Learning. These resources are available for Grades K - 12, and are available in PowerPoint and PDF formats. All grade-level recordings, PowerPoints. and PDF documents are currently located on the 2024 English Standards of Learning webpage.
English and NAEP Framework Analysis
The Virginia Department of Education conducted an external review of the 2024 English Standards of Learning (SOL) in comparison to the Reading Framework for the 2026 National Assessment of Educational Progress (nagb.gov). The crosswalk and analysis found overall strong alignment between Virginia’s 2024 English SOL and the NAEP Reading Framework.