OLC4O

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Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course, Grade 12
  • Prerequisite: Students who have been eligible to write the OSSLT at least twice and who have been unsuccessful at least once are eligible to take the course. (Students who have already met the literacy requirement for graduation may be eligible to take the course under special circumstances, at the discretion of the principal.)

Course Description

This course is designed to help students acquire and demonstrate the cross-curricular literacy skills that are evaluated by the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT). Students who complete the course successfully will meet the provincial literacy requirement for graduation. Students will read a variety of informational, narrative, and graphic texts and will produce a variety of forms of writing, including summaries, information paragraphs, opinion pieces, and news reports. Students will also maintain and manage a portfolio containing a record of their reading experiences and samples of their writing.

Unit 1:
Building Reading Skills

In this unit students will learn and practice reading strategies to help them better understand what they read before, during and after they read.

Unit 2:
Into a Grammar

Students will build vocabulary for writing by confirming word meaning(s) and reviewing and refining word choice, using a variety of resources and strategies, as appropriate for the purpose.

Unit 3:
Media and Literacy

Students will learn how to use appropriate strategies to activate and build on prior knowledge of the content of the informational, narrative, or graphic selections, to monitor comprehension when reading informational and narrative texts.

Unit 4:
Newspaper

Students will demonstrate that they have read a variety of student-selected and teacher-selected texts, including informational, narrative, and graphic texts; demonstrate the ability to read independently for personal, school -related, and career-related purposes

Unit 5:
Writing for the workplace

Students will learn how to plan and write a variety of texts - information paragraphs, opinion essays, summaries, and news reports. The form and writing process for each type of text is presented in clear steps, and there are many opportunities to practice and receive feedback on writing skills.

Unit 6:
Graphic Novels

Students will learn how to use appropriate pre-reading strategies to preview new texts, including: informational texts, Narrative texts, and Graphic texts.
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Unit 7: Career

Students will demonstrate the ability to read independently for personal, school-related, and career-related purposes (e.g., by writing a response to a text, answering assigned questions about a text, creating a summary of events outlined in a newspaper report, comparing descriptions of apprenticeship programs and writing a covering letter of application to one of the programs).

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