Virginia SOL K.DSR.1

ELAKindergartenDeveloping Skilled Readers and Building Reading Stamina

SOL Standard (Knowledge and Skills Cluster)

The student will build knowledge and comprehension skills from reading and listening to a range of texts. This includes fluently reading decodable sentences and gathering evidence from content-rich texts (through read alouds) on topics to gain purposeful knowledge and vocabulary

Virginia Standards of Learning for English

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Knowledge and Skills in This Standard

K.DSR.1 is a Standards of Learning standard. These are the knowledge and skills expectations under it.

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What This Cluster Means

What Students Need to Do

Students use letter sounds and known irregular words to read and reread decodable sentences smoothly. They listen to related read-alouds, learn topic words, and use details from the texts to support answers.

What Mastery Looks Like

Students read controlled sentences accurately and more smoothly after rereading. With support, they answer questions using several accurate details from read-alouds and connect new vocabulary to earlier texts.

Common Misconceptions

Students may guess words from pictures instead of using letter sounds. They may give a remembered detail that does not answer the question or name evidence they cannot locate in the text.

How to Assess It

Have each child read one decodable sentence twice. After a short read-aloud, ask one question and have the child answer with two details, pointing to where each appears.

Lesson moves

Ways to Teach It

  1. Build a decodable sentence with word cards, read it aloud, change one target word, then reread the new sentence smoothly.

  2. After two read-alouds about frogs, ask, “How do frogs survive?” and have children cite one detail from each book.

  3. Play Sentence Match: children read decodable strips and place each beside the matching picture, then reread for smoother phrasing.

  4. Use a seed packet and a plant book to identify what seeds need, then label a class planting chart with new words.

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