Virginia SOL 12.DSR.D

ELA12th GradeDeveloping Skilled and Building Reading Stamina 

The Standard

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 a range of complexity levels so students can read the texts independently, with peers, or with modest support.). Use this background knowledge as context for new learning. (Deep Reading on Topics to Build Knowledge and Vocabulary, 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.

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What This Standard Means

What Students Need to Do

Students read several connected texts and track how each source adds ideas, details, and vocabulary. They use what they already learned to understand and evaluate each new reading.

What Mastery Looks Like

Students can explain how several texts add to, refine, or challenge their understanding of a topic. They use recurring academic and subject terms accurately when speaking or writing about a new source.

Common Misconceptions

Students may treat each reading as separate and miss how ideas build across sources. They may copy unfamiliar terms without learning their meanings or assume a harder text is automatically more reliable.

How to Assess It

Use an exit ticket: Name one idea from today’s text that became clearer because of an earlier reading, cite both texts, and use one unit term accurately.

Lesson moves

Ways to Teach It

  1. Give pairs six excerpt cards from the unit text set to sort by shared concept, complexity, and useful vocabulary.

  2. Write: How did an earlier text change your understanding of today’s reading? Cite one detail from each text.

  3. Play a vocabulary link game: students draw two unit terms, explain their connection, then verify it with evidence from a text.

  4. Compare a news report, agency page, and opinion piece on a local issue, then create a one-paragraph briefing for families.

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