Virginia SOL 12.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
12.DSR is a Standards of Learning standard. These are the knowledge and skills expectations under it.
- 12.DSR.A
Read a variety of grade-level complex text with accuracy, automaticity, appropriate rate, and meaningful expression in successive readings to support comprehens...
- 12.DSR.B
Proficiently read and comprehend a variety of literary and informational texts that exhibit complexity at the higher range of the grades 11-12 band to generate ...
- 12.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...
- 12.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 ...
- 12.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 demanding literary and informational texts accurately and with clear expression. They notice when meaning breaks down and use a specific strategy to repair it. They gather evidence, build vocabulary, and connect ideas across related texts.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students read a demanding passage accurately, at an appropriate pace, and with phrasing that reflects meaning. They explain difficult sections by summarizing, questioning, or using text structure. They support claims with several accurate quotations or paraphrases and connect ideas across texts.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat fluent reading as fast reading and ignore phrasing, accuracy, or meaning. They may push past confusion instead of rereading, using structure, or asking questions. They often copy a relevant quotation without explaining how it supports their claim.
How to Assess It
- Give students a 400-word unfamiliar passage. Have them mark one comprehension problem and repair, then answer an inferential question using two accurate quotations and an explanation.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a cut-up complex paragraph to reorder, then label the clues that reveal its structure and summarize its argument.
Discuss which author presents the stronger explanation, citing two details and addressing one conflicting detail from the paired texts.
Run an Evidence Relay where teams match claim cards to quotation or paraphrase cards, then explain why each match supports the claim.
Compare a workplace policy, news report, and public comment on one local issue, then write a briefing that synthesizes their key points.
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