Virginia SOL 7.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
7.DSR is a Standards of Learning standard. These are the knowledge and skills expectations under it.
- 7.DSR.A
Read a variety of grade-level complex text with accuracy, automaticity, appropriate rate, and meaningful expression in successive readings to support comprehens...
- 7.DSR.B
Proficiently read and comprehend a variety of literary and informational texts that exhibit complexity at the mid-range of the grades 6-8 band. (See the Quantit...
- 7.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...
- 7.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 ...
- 7.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 accurately, smoothly, and with understanding. They monitor confusion, use repair strategies, build knowledge across related texts, and support ideas with several relevant details.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student reads unfamiliar grade-level text accurately, at a steady pace, and with phrasing that reflects meaning. They notice confusion, use a fitting repair strategy, and support claims or inferences with several accurately quoted or paraphrased details.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think fluent reading means reading as fast as possible. They may choose evidence that mentions the topic but does not support the claim. Some keep reading through confusion instead of rereading, questioning, or using text structure.
How to Assess It
- Give students a 250-word grade-level passage. Ask them to read one paragraph aloud, mark and resolve one confusing point, then answer an inference question using two cited details.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a complex paragraph cut into sentence strips, then have them rebuild it and explain how transitions reveal the structure.
Ask students to write which sentence was hardest to understand, what caused the difficulty, and which strategy clarified it.
Run an evidence relay where teams locate two supporting details, record line numbers, and explain how each detail proves a given claim.
Read two short reports about a local issue, then build a shared vocabulary chart showing repeated terms, meanings, and new knowledge.
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