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The Literacy Test (OSSLT)

The Literacy Test (OSSLT). What you need to know. What is the Literacy Test?. The OSSLT is a provincial test of literacy (reading and writing) skills students have acquired by grade 10 Its successful completion is a requirement for graduation. Who writes the Literacy Test?. Grade 10 students

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The Literacy Test (OSSLT)

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  1. The Literacy Test (OSSLT) What you need to know

  2. What is the Literacy Test? • The OSSLT is a provincial test of literacy (reading and writing) skills students have acquired by grade 10 • Its successful completion is a requirement for graduation

  3. Who writes the Literacy Test? • Grade 10 students • Other students who are eligible to write

  4. The Basics

  5. What’s on the test? • 5 reading passages   • 10 questions related to readings • 48 multiple choice questions related to the readings • 54 questions based on grammar, spelling and reading and writing skills • 2 short writing tasks • 2 long writing tasks

  6. Reading Selections • Informational Reading (225-250 words) • paragraph • news report • Narrative • dialogue (225-250 words) • real-life narrative (about 600 words) • Graphic (fewer than 150 words) Types of questions: multiple choice open response (6 lines each)

  7. Writing Tasks • Long-writing tasks • news report (1 page) • series of paragraphs expressing an opinion (2 pages) • Two short-writing tasks (six lines each) Types of Questions: • multiple-choice developing a main idea with supporting details • organization of ideas • language conventions

  8. What will the test day be like? • Only those who are eligible to write will attend in the morning • All others will attend afternoon classes only • Students writing the Literacy Test will be at school from 8:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. • This time includes instruction, the test and a short break between Test Booklets

  9. Test Day Schedule

  10. Where can I get extra help? • Visit our school website for: • “How To” Powerpoints for all Literacy Test tasks • Link to the EQAO website with practice tests • Access to other helpful on-line resources www.louisearbourss.ca

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