Virginia SOL 10.DSR.E
The Standard
Use reading strategies as needed to aid and monitor comprehension when encountering challenging sections of text. These sense-making strategies attend to text structure, common organizational structures, summarizing, asking questions of the text, and others (Reading Strategies, 3-12).
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 notice when a difficult passage stops making sense. They pause and use a fitting strategy, such as mapping the structure, summarizing, questioning, or rereading with a clear purpose.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can notice when meaning breaks down and choose a useful response. They can identify the passage structure, ask focused questions, and summarize the main idea with accurate evidence.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may reread the same lines without changing their approach. They may copy details instead of summarizing the main point. They may name a structure from one signal word without checking how the whole passage is organized.
How to Assess It
- Give students a challenging 200-word passage. Ask them to mark where meaning became unclear, name the strategy they used, and write a two-sentence summary.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a cut-up editorial; students rebuild it, underline transition clues, and name the organizational pattern that guided their choices.
Ask students to write: Where did your understanding break down, which strategy did you choose, and what became clearer?
Play Strategy Match: teams draw a difficult paragraph and choose the best move from cards labeled summarize, question, map, or reread.
Students examine a phone contract, map its headings and exceptions, then summarize one fee rule in plain language for a classmate.
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