Virginia SOL 10.DSR
SOL Standard (Knowledge and Skills Cluster)
The student will build knowledge and comprehension skills from reading a range of challenging, content-rich texts. This includes fluently reading and gathering evidence from grade-level complex texts, reading widely on topics to gain purposeful knowledge and vocabulary, and using reading strategies when comprehension breaks down.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English
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Knowledge and Skills in This Standard
10.DSR is a Standards of Learning standard. These are the knowledge and skills expectations under it.
- 10.DSR.A
Read a variety of grade-level complex text with accuracy, automaticity, appropriate rate, and meaningful expression in successive readings to support comprehens...
- 10.DSR.B
Proficiently read and comprehend a variety of literary and informational texts that exhibit complexity at the higher range of the grades 9-10 band (See the Quan...
- 10.DSR.C
When responding to text through discussions and/or writing, draw several pieces of evidence from grade-level complex texts to support claims, conclusions, and i...
- 10.DSR.D
Regularly engage in reading a series of conceptually related texts organized around topics of study to build knowledge and vocabulary (These texts should be at ...
- 10.DSR.E
Use reading strategies as needed to aid and monitor comprehension when encountering challenging sections of text. These sense-making strategies attend to text s...
Teacher's field guide
What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students read challenging literary and informational texts accurately and with phrasing that supports meaning. They monitor understanding, repair confusion, connect related readings, and support claims with several accurate quotations or paraphrases.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain a difficult passage, identify where understanding broke down, and describe the strategy used to repair it. The student reads repeated passages more smoothly and supports an inference with several accurate, traceable details.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat fast reading as fluent reading, or keep going when a sentence stops making sense. They may choose one loosely related quote, copy evidence inaccurately, or miss connections across related texts.
How to Assess It
- Give students a 200-word passage. Ask them to read one paragraph aloud twice, then write one inference, cite two details, and name one repair strategy they used.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Cut a difficult paragraph into sentence strips. Pairs rebuild it, mark transition clues, and read it aloud twice with meaningful phrasing.
Write: Where did your understanding break down, which clue or strategy repaired it, and what meaning became clear?
Run an evidence relay. Teams locate, paraphrase, and label two details supporting an inference, earning points only when locations are accurate.
Compare two news reports on one local issue, track repeated vocabulary, and explain how the second article adds or changes knowledge.
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