Virginia SOL 5.DSR.E
The Standard
Use reading strategies as needed to aid and monitor comprehension when encountering challenging sections of text. These sense-making strategies attend to common organizational text 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 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 notice when a challenging passage stops making sense. They choose a useful response, such as rereading, summarizing, asking questions, or using the text structure, then check their understanding.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students identify the exact word, sentence, or idea causing confusion. They independently choose a useful strategy, explain the passage accurately, and try another strategy if needed.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may keep reading without noticing that meaning has broken down. They may reread without a purpose, include every detail in a summary, or ask questions unrelated to the text.
How to Assess It
- Give students a challenging two-paragraph passage. Ask them to mark one difficult part, name and use a strategy, then explain what became clearer.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a challenging passage and strategy cards; students place a card beside each difficult section, use it, and record what became clearer.
Ask students to write: Where did your understanding break down, which strategy did you choose, and what evidence shows it worked?
Play Strategy Match: teams draw a confusion card, choose reread, summarize, question, or text structure, then justify the best response.
Have students read game instructions, mark a confusing step, apply a reading strategy, and explain how the strategy prevents a playing mistake.
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