Virginia SOL 11.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
11.DSR is a Standards of Learning standard. These are the knowledge and skills expectations under it.
- 11.DSR.A
Read a variety of grade-level complex texts with accuracy, automaticity, appropriate rate, and meaningful expression in successive readings to support comprehen...
- 11.DSR.B
Proficiently read and comprehend a variety of literary and informational texts that exhibit complexity at the lower range of the grades 11-12 band to generate a...
- 11.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...
- 11.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 ...
- 11.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 closely, smoothly, and with clear understanding. They gather several relevant details to support answers, claims, and inferences. They monitor confusion, use a specific repair strategy, and connect ideas and vocabulary across related texts.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students read demanding passages accurately, at a steady rate, and with phrasing that reflects meaning. They answer literal and inferential questions, support conclusions with several accurate quotations or paraphrases, and explain how the evidence fits. They notice confusion and choose a useful repair strategy.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat speed as fluency, even when phrasing and meaning are lost. They may choose quotations that mention the topic but do not support the claim. Some keep reading through confusion instead of rereading, summarizing, or examining the text structure.
How to Assess It
- Give students a 400-word grade-level passage. Ask: What conclusion can you draw, which two details support it, and what strategy helped when meaning broke down?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed speech to mark pauses, stressed words, and structure, then rehearse and reread it aloud for meaning.
Discuss which of two interpretations is stronger, requiring each student to cite two passages and explain how each supports the interpretation.
Run an evidence relay where teams match claim cards to quotation cards, then reject one tempting but irrelevant quotation.
Compare two news reports on the same local issue, noting new vocabulary, differing structures, and evidence each reporter uses.
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