Developing Skilled Readers and Building Reading Stamina
Virginia SOL 12.DSR
Build comprehension skills from reading complex texts through fluency, evidence gathering, and strategic reading.
What students need to be able to do
- Read grade-level complex texts with accuracy, automaticity, appropriate rate, and meaningful expression.
- Monitor reading to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding.
- Proficiently read and comprehend literary and informational texts at the higher range of grades 11-12 complexity.
- Draw evidence from grade-level complex texts to support claims, conclusions, and inferences.
- Read a series of conceptually related texts to build knowledge and vocabulary.
- Use reading strategies to aid and monitor comprehension when encountering challenging sections of text.