Virginia SOL 5.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
5.DSR is a Standards of Learning standard. These are the knowledge and skills expectations under it.
- 5.DSR.A
Read a variety of grade-level complex texts with accuracy, automaticity, appropriate rate, and meaningful expression in successive readings to support comprehen...
- 5.DSR.B
Proficiently read and comprehend a variety of literary and informational texts that exhibit complexity at the higher range of the grades 4-5 band (See the Quant...
- 5.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...
- 5.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 ...
- 5.DSR.E
Use reading strategies as needed to aid and monitor comprehension when encountering challenging sections of text. These sense-making strategies attend to common...
Teacher's field guide
What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students read demanding literary and informational texts smoothly and with understanding. They gather several accurate details to support ideas, connect related readings, and repair confusion with purposeful strategies.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student reads aloud accurately, at a steady pace, and with phrasing that reflects meaning. The student explains an inference with multiple quoted or paraphrased details and describes how confusion was resolved.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat fast reading as fluent reading, ignore punctuation, or keep going after meaning is lost. They may choose one weak detail, copy long passages, or confuse prior knowledge with textual evidence.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short complex passage to read aloud, then ask, “What can you infer, and which two details support it?” Have them identify one place they reread or clarified.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs printed paragraphs, highlighters, and sticky notes to mark claims, supporting details, unfamiliar words, and spots that require rereading.
Ask, “Which idea becomes clearer across both texts, and what evidence from each text changed or strengthened your thinking?”
Run an evidence match game where teams pair inference cards with two supporting detail cards, then reject one tempting but irrelevant detail.
Have students compare two school lunch articles, then write a recommendation supported by evidence and newly learned topic vocabulary.
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