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Prepare for the EQAO assessment with this unit focusing on understanding explicit and implicit ideas in texts, making connections, and developing writing skills with supporting details and proper conventions. Master reading various text types and writing tasks such as opinion pieces and news reports.
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Literacy prep for EQAO Mrs. Doak
Unit Learning objectives: Reading: • Understand Explicit & Implicit ideas in text • Make connections between information and ideas in a reading selection and your personal knowledge and experience (Text-Text, Text-Self, Text-World)
Learning objectives Continued: Writing: • Develop the main idea with supporting details • Organize information and ideas in a coherent manner • Use conventions in a manner that does not distract from communication (ie. Spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc)
The Test Consists of: • 31 Multiple Choice reading items related to 5 reading sections • 4 open response items related to 3 of the 5 reading selections • 8 Multiple Choice writing items • 2 Short open response writing tasks (opinion piece and news report).
YOU MUST KNOW HOW TO READ: • News Report • Information Paragraph • Graphic text • Narrative • Multiple Choice Q’s
You must know how to write: • Short Answer Questions (Make Connections) • Opinion Piece (5 paragraphs) • News Report • Summary • ROPES paragraph