Virginia SOL 12.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).
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 a clear claim, conclusion, or inference about a challenging text. They select several relevant passages, quote or paraphrase them accurately, cite their locations, and explain how each supports the response.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A strong response presents a defensible claim and uses several relevant details from a complex text. The student quotes and paraphrases accurately, cites exact locations, and explains how each detail supports the reasoning.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often choose lines that mention the topic but do not support the claim. They may drop quotations without explanation, copy wording as a paraphrase, or cite the wrong paragraph or page.
How to Assess It
- Give students a one-page editorial and ask them to identify one assumption. Require one quotation, two paraphrased details, paragraph citations, and an explanation of how each supports the answer.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs printed evidence strips to sort into strong, weak, or irrelevant support for a claim, then require them to defend each placement.
Ask students to write one inference about a character or author, then support it with three cited passages and a brief explanation.
Play Evidence Match by having teams pair claim cards with passage cards and earn points only when they explain the connection accurately.
Compare two news reports on the same event, then identify which report supports its conclusions with clearer, traceable evidence.
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