Virginia SOL 3.DSR.E
The Standard
Use reading strategies as needed to monitor comprehension when encountering challenging sections of text. These sense-making strategies attended to common text organizational structures, summarizing, asking questions of the text, and others (Reading Strategies, 3-12).
Virginia Standards of Learning for English · The student will build knowledge and comprehension skills from reading and listening to a range of challenging, content-rich texts. This includes fluently reading and gathering evidence from grade-level complex texts and 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 notice when a word, sentence, or section stops making sense. They pause and choose a useful strategy, such as rereading, summarizing, asking a question, or using sequence, cause, and comparison clues.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can identify the exact word, sentence, or section that caused confusion. They choose a fitting strategy, use it, and explain how it improved their understanding.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may keep reading even when the ideas stop making sense. They may reread without changing their approach, summarize every detail, or ask questions that the text cannot answer.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short passage with one dense paragraph. Ask them to mark where meaning became unclear, name the strategy they used, and explain what they understand now.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs mixed sentence strips from a short article, then have them order the ideas and explain which text clues helped.
After a difficult paragraph, ask, “Where did meaning break down, and which strategy helped you fix it?”
Play Strategy Match: students draw a confusion card and choose reread, summarize, question, or use structure, then justify the match.
Use written game directions, and have students mark one confusing step, apply a strategy, and revise the step for clarity.
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