Virginia SOL 6.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 text structure, common 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 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 section stops making sense and select a strategy, such as rereading, identifying the organization, asking a question, or summarizing. They check whether the strategy restored meaning and support their understanding with details from the text.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students pause at a confusing passage, name what caused the problem, and choose a useful strategy. They can identify the text structure, summarize the key idea, and explain how the strategy improved understanding.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think reading every word correctly means they understand the passage. They may reread without changing their approach, copy sentences as summaries, or ask questions that do not clarify meaning.
How to Assess It
- Give students a challenging two-paragraph passage. Ask them to mark one confusing section, name the strategy they used, and write a one-sentence explanation of the section.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Cut a cause-and-effect paragraph into sentence strips, then have pairs reorder it, circle signal words, and explain the structure.
Ask students to write: Where did your understanding break down, which strategy did you choose, and what became clearer?
Play Strategy Match by pairing confusion cards, such as unknown reference or lost sequence, with the best reading strategy card.
Read a school policy notice, mark one confusing line, apply a reading strategy, and paraphrase the action students must take.
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