Developing Skilled Readers and Building Reading Stamina
Virginia SOL 8.DSR
Build knowledge and comprehension skills from reading a range of challenging, content-rich texts, including fluent reading, gathering evidence, reading widely, and using reading strategies.
What students need to be able to do
- Reading with accuracy
- Reading with automaticity
- Reading with appropriate rate
- Reading with meaningful expression
- Monitoring while reading
- Self-correcting 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 6-8 band
- Drawing evidence from grade-level complex texts
- Supporting claims, conclusions, and inferences
- Quoting or paraphrasing from texts accurately
- Tracing where relevant evidence is located
- Regularly engage in reading a series of conceptually related texts organized around topics of study to build knowledge and vocabulary. Use this background knowledge as context for new learning
- Using reading strategies to aid and monitor comprehension
- Attending to text structure
- Attending to common organizational structures
- Summarizing
- Asking questions of the text