Developing Skilled Readers and Building Reading Stamina
Virginia SOL 4.DSR
Build knowledge and comprehension skills from reading a range of challenging, content-rich texts.
What students need to be able to do
- Read a variety of grade-level complex texts with accuracy, automaticity, appropriate rate, and meaningful expression in successive readings to support comprehension.
- Monitor while reading to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding.
- Draw several pieces of evidence from grade-level complex texts to support claims, conclusions, and inferences.
- Quote or paraphrase from texts accurately and trace where relevant evidence is located.
- Engage in reading a series of conceptually related texts organized around topics of study to build knowledge and vocabulary.
- Use reading strategies to aid and monitor comprehension when encountering challenging sections of text.