Virginia SOL 6.DSR.B
The Standard
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 Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis chart for determining complexity in the Appendix.) (Text Complexity, 2-12).
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 independently read challenging stories, poems, articles, and other informational texts. They identify key ideas, make supported inferences, summarize accurately, and repair confusion through rereading or context clues.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students read grade-level literary and informational texts at a steady pace and explain the central ideas accurately. They support inferences with text evidence and use rereading or context clues when meaning breaks down.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think fluent reading means reading quickly, even when meaning is lost. They may copy sentences instead of summarizing, or stop at every unfamiliar word rather than using context.
How to Assess It
- Give students a 500-word grade-level passage and ask for the main idea, two supporting details, and one place where context clarified meaning.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed passage to cut into sections, label each section’s main idea, and arrange the labels into a summary.
Ask students to write: Which sentence carries the most meaning in this passage, and what details make it significant?
Play Evidence Match by having teams pair inference cards with supporting quotations from a shared grade-level text.
Have students read a product review and user guide, then decide whether to buy the product using evidence from both texts.
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