ON KEY OSSLT Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test 9781553719205

Study Guide for OSSLT is specifically designed to assist students all year in preparing for the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test. It is 100% aligned with the Ontario curriculum and focuses primarily on preparing students for the reading comprehension and writing components of the OSSLT.

THE KEY Study Guide for OSSLT is 100% aligned with the Ontario curriculum. The resource focuses on the skills students are expected to have learned by the end of grade 9. The suggestions and strategies for approaching reading should be used in conjunction with curriculum concepts and content studied in the classroom.

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Examples of skills addressed in the resource include:

• Understanding Explicitly Stated Ideas and Information
• Understanding Implicitly Stated Ideas and Information
• Making Connections between Information and Ideas in a Reading and Personal Knowledge and Experience
• Using Strategies with Informational Articles, Visual Texts, and Narrative Passages
• General Tips for Multiple-Choice and Open-Response Reading Tests
• Developing a Main Idea with Sufficient Supporting Details
• Organizing Information and Ideas in a Coherent Manner
• Using Conventions (grammar, punctuation, spelling).
• Using Strategies with New Reports, Opinion paragraphs, and Summaries
• General Tips for Multiple-Choice and Open-Response Reading Tests

The KEY includes two sample year-end assessments. Students may use them to become familiar with provincial assessment test format and rigour. Detailed solutions are provided for all questions. Solutions show the processes and ideas used in arriving at the correct answers and may help students gain a better understanding of the concepts that are being tested.

KEY Strategies for Success on Tests focusses on preparing students to write tests. This section provides students with study options for test preparation, descriptions of common test question formats, tips for to common question formats and directing words, suggestions for managing test anziety, strategies to use before and udring test, and tips for selcted subject areas.