Virginia SOL 8.DSR.C
The Standard
When responding to text through discussion and/or writing, draw several pieces of evidence from grade-level complex texts to support claims, conclusions, and inferences, including quoting or paraphrasing from texts accurately and tracing where relevant evidence is located (Textual Evidence, K-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 make a claim, conclusion, or inference about a challenging text and support it with several relevant details. They use accurate quotations or paraphrases and show where each detail appears.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students select two or more strong details and explain how each one supports their thinking. They quote or paraphrase accurately and identify the page, paragraph, or line.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may use one quotation and assume it proves the point without explanation. They may confuse paraphrasing with changing a few words or cite details that do not support the claim.
How to Assess It
- Give students a numbered passage and ask, “What can you infer about the speaker’s attitude?” Require a clear answer, two supporting details, and location references.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups claim cards and evidence strips, then have them match each claim with the two strongest supporting details.
Ask students to write one inference about a character, cite two details, and explain how each detail supports the inference.
Play Evidence Relay, where teams race to locate, record, and defend the best evidence for a posted claim.
Compare two online product reviews, then decide which recommendation is better supported by specific facts from the reviews.
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