Virginia SOL 10.DSR.A
The Standard
Read a variety of grade-level complex text with accuracy, automaticity, appropriate rate, and meaningful expression in successive readings to support comprehension. Monitor while reading to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, as necessary (Reading Fluency, K-12).
Virginia Standards of Learning for English · 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.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students read difficult grade-level passages accurately and at a pace that supports meaning. They reread to improve phrasing, emphasis, and smoothness. When a word or idea does not make sense, they pause, check context, and correct it.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student reads an unfamiliar passage accurately, with smooth phrasing and a pace that supports meaning. A second reading shows clear improvement. The student notices errors or confusion, corrects them without prompting, and explains how the correction clarified meaning.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students treat fluency as speed and rush past punctuation. Others add dramatic expression that does not match syntax or meaning. They may guess at unfamiliar words, continue through confusion, or reread without using context to repair understanding.
How to Assess It
- Give students a 120-word complex excerpt. Have them read it aloud, mark one breakdown, annotate their repair, then reread while you note accuracy, phrasing, rate, and self-correction.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a 150-word speech excerpt; students mark pauses and emphasis, rehearse twice, then record a final reading.
Ask students to annotate one confusing sentence, then write which word or idea caused the problem and how they repaired understanding.
Run a partner rereading game: readers earn one point for each accurate self-correction and one for explaining a change in meaning.
Compare a cold and rehearsed reading of workplace safety instructions, then identify which version would help a new employee act correctly.
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