Virginia SOL 12.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 demanding texts accurately and smoothly, using phrasing, pace, and tone that fit the meaning. They notice miscues or confusion, reread, and correct words or interpretations. Repeated readings should become clearer and more natural.
What Mastery Looks Like
- On a second reading, a student makes fewer word errors, pauses at logical boundaries, and varies tone to fit the passage. When meaning breaks down, the student stops, checks context or word parts, and rereads accurately.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat speed as fluency and rush through punctuation or difficult ideas. They may ignore substitutions that change meaning or keep reading when a sentence stops making sense. Some use dramatic expression that does not fit the passage.
How to Assess It
- Give each student a 150-word complex passage and say, "Read it aloud twice. After each reading, mark one word or sentence you corrected and explain why." Compare accuracy, phrasing, pace, and self-corrections across both readings.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Print a complex paragraph, have students slash phrase boundaries, underline stressed words, then record two readings and compare them.
Ask students to explain in writing how one change in pause, pace, or emphasis altered the meaning of a selected sentence.
Run a partner miscue hunt: one student reads, the other notes skipped, changed, or misread words, then partners switch and reread.
Use a college lecture transcript or workplace briefing, and have students prepare a clear oral reading for an audience needing accurate information.
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