Virginia SOL 1.DSR

ELA1st GradeDeveloping Skilled Readers and Building Reading Stamina

SOL Standard (Knowledge and Skills Cluster)

The student will build knowledge and comprehension skills from reading and listening to a range of challenging, content-rich texts. This includes fluently reading decodable texts and gathering evidence from reading widely (through content-rich read alouds) on topics to gain purposeful knowledge and vocabulary

Virginia Standards of Learning for English

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Knowledge and Skills in This Standard

1.DSR is a Standards of Learning standard. These are the knowledge and skills expectations under it.

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What This Cluster Means

What Students Need to Do

Students use letter sounds and spelling patterns to read decodable texts accurately and smoothly. They notice when a word or idea does not make sense and reread to fix it. They listen across related texts, learn topic words, and use details from those texts to explain their thinking.

What Mastery Looks Like

A student reads a familiar decodable passage accurately, smoothly, and with phrasing that matches the meaning. The student notices errors and rereads to fix them. After related read-alouds, the student explains an idea using several accurate details and new topic words.

Common Misconceptions

Students may guess from pictures or the first letter instead of checking every sound. They may read quickly without noticing that a sentence makes no sense. They may give an opinion about a read-aloud but cannot name details that support it.

How to Assess It

Have each student read a short decodable passage twice, then ask, “What did you learn, and which words or sentences helped you?” Note accuracy, self-corrections, expression, and evidence.

Lesson moves

Ways to Teach It

  1. Give pairs sentence strips from a decodable passage to arrange, read aloud, and reread after checking each word against the printed text.

  2. After two read-alouds about frogs, ask, “How do frogs survive?” and have students answer with two details from the texts.

  3. Play Reread Relay, where students read one passage three times and mark each accurate, smooth reading with a colored dot.

  4. Read a school lunch menu, identify unfamiliar words, and use headings and nearby words to explain what each lunch includes.

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