Virginia SOL 9.DSR.C
The Standard
When responding to text through discussions 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 claims, conclusions, or inferences about challenging texts. They choose several relevant details, quote or paraphrase them accurately, identify each location, and explain how the evidence supports their thinking.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can state a defensible claim or inference and support it with three well-chosen details from a challenging text. Quotations preserve wording, paraphrases preserve meaning, and citations identify the correct page, paragraph, or line.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often choose details that mention the topic but do not prove the claim. They may copy too much, change meaning when paraphrasing, omit explanations, or cite the wrong location.
How to Assess It
- Give students a one-page article and ask: State one inference, support it with one exact quotation and one accurate paraphrase, and label the paragraph numbers.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Print claim and evidence strips from a class text; pairs match three supporting details to each claim and record paragraph numbers.
Discuss: Which two details best support the character's motive, and why are they stronger than the other details?
Play Evidence Relay: teams locate, quote, and paraphrase support for a posted inference, earning points for accuracy and relevance.
Compare two product reviews, then write a buying recommendation supported by one quotation and one paraphrased detail with source locations.
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