Virginia SOL 6.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
Cluster contents
Knowledge and Skills in This Standard
6.DSR is a Standards of Learning standard. These are the knowledge and skills expectations under it.
- 6.DSR.A
Read a variety of grade-level complex text with accuracy, automaticity, appropriate rate, and meaningful expression in successive readings to support comprehens...
- 6.DSR.B
Proficiently read and comprehend a variety of literary and informational texts that exhibit complexity at the lower range of the grade 6-8 band (See the Quantit...
- 6.DSR.C
When responding to text through discussion and/or writing, draw several pieces of evidence from grade-level complex texts to support claims, conclusions, and in...
- 6.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 ...
- 6.DSR.E
Use reading strategies as needed to aid and monitor comprehension when encountering challenging sections of text. These sense-making strategies attend to text s...
Teacher's field guide
What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students read challenging literary and informational texts with accuracy, steady pacing, and meaningful expression. They notice confusion, use a repair strategy, and support ideas with evidence from related texts.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students read a challenging passage accurately, at a steady rate, and with phrasing that reflects meaning. They support an inference with accurate quotes or paraphrases and use a specific strategy when confused.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat fluency as speed and ignore phrasing or meaning. They may choose one loosely related quote as evidence. Some keep reading after meaning breaks down instead of rereading, questioning, or summarizing.
How to Assess It
- Give students a 250-word grade-level passage. Have them read one paragraph aloud, answer an inference question with two cited details, and name one repair strategy they used.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Cut a short article into sections; pairs sequence them, label structure clues, and write a one-sentence summary.
After two related texts, write: What idea did the second text add, and which two details changed your understanding?
Run a fluency relay where partners reread a 150-word passage, mark errors, time each reading, and coach phrasing rather than speed.
Compare a news report and public information page on a local issue, then create a fact sheet with sourced evidence.
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