Virginia SOL 11.DSR.C
The Standard
When responding to text through discussions and/or writing, draw several pieces of evidence from grade-level complex texts to support claims, conclusions, and inferences, including quoting or paraphrasing from texts accurately and tracing where relevant evidence is located (Textual Evidence, K-12).V
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 make defensible claims, conclusions, and inferences about complex texts. They select several relevant passages, quote or paraphrase accurately, identify each location, and explain how the evidence supports their reasoning.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A strong response uses several relevant details from different parts of the text. Quotations are exact, paraphrases preserve meaning, citations identify locations, and commentary clearly connects each detail to the claim.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may include one quotation and treat it as enough, or collect details that do not directly support the claim. They may copy long passages without explanation, alter meaning when paraphrasing, or omit page, paragraph, or line references.
How to Assess It
- After today’s reading, ask: “Make one inference about the author’s purpose. Support it with three quotations or paraphrases, cite each location, and explain each connection.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed editorial, highlighters, and sticky notes to mark a claim, three supporting passages, and each passage’s paragraph number.
Ask, “What can we infer about the author’s purpose, and which three details best support that inference?” Students write, then discuss.
Run Evidence Sort: teams rank six quotations from strongest to weakest for a given claim, then defend their top two choices.
Have students examine a news analysis and trace each major claim to the linked report, recording accurate quotations and source locations.
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