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Developing Skilled Readers and Building Reading Stamina

Virginia SOL 5.DSR

Build knowledge and comprehension skills from reading a range of challenging, content-rich texts.

Study 5.DSR with SOL PrepBack to Grade 5 English

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.
  • Proficiently read and comprehend a variety of literary and informational texts that exhibit complexity at the higher range of the grades 4-5 band.
  • Draw several pieces of evidence from grade-level complex texts to support claims, conclusions, and inferences from texts, including quoting or paraphrasing accurately.
  • Trace where relevant evidence is located in texts.
  • Regularly engage in reading a series of conceptually related texts organized around topics of study to build knowledge and vocabulary.
  • Use reading strategies as needed to aid and monitor comprehension when encountering challenging sections of text.