OSSLT OVERVIEW

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OSSLT OVERVIEW

• Anita Love-Barry

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YRDSB Definition of Literacy

• Literacy involves the development of a continuum
  of skills, knowledge and attitudes that prepares
  all of our learners in a change world community

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• It begins with the fundamental acquisition of a
  continuum of skills in reading, writing,
  listening, speaking, viewing, representing,
  responding and mathematics

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• It becomes the ability to understand, think,
  apply and communicate effectively in all subject
  and program areas in a variety of ways for a
  variety of purposes.

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Overview

• Thursday March 29, 2007
• 1 Day 2 ½ hours
• Pass or Fail (Rewrites are required to rewrite
  the entire test)
• Two test booklets with both reading and writing
  tasks in each

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Reading Skills

• Understand explicit ideas and info
• Understand implicit ideas and info
• Make connections between the reading selection
  and personal knowledge and experience

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Reading Tasks

• Informational
• Paragraph Writing
• News Report
• Narrative
• Dialogue
• Real Life Narrative
• Graphic

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Reading Types of Questions

• Multiple Choice
• Open Response
• From the information paragraph, news report and
  dialogue reading selections
• Answers must be in complete sentences and fit
  within the 6 lines provided
• Responses require students to make a personal
  connection and inferences
• Summarize information

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What do we need to reinforce?

• Inferring
• Questioning
• Authors purpose
• Language choice
• Connecting
• Text to self
• Text to world
• Text to text

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And

• Identifying a main idea
• Summarizing
• Using context clues
• Text structure
• Graphic organizers
• How to read non-narratives (such as charts,
  graphs, pictures, media, etc)

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Reading Materials students need more exposure to

• Graphic Text
• Diagrams
• Photographs
• Timetables
• Maps
• Informational text
• Magazines
• Biographies
• On-line test

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Writing Skills

• Develop a main idea with sufficient supporting
  details
• Organize information and ideas in a coherent
  manner
• Use language conventions that do not distract
  from clear communication

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Writing Tasks

• Long Writing Tasks
• News report
• Series of paragraphs
• Short Writing Tasks (6 lines)
• Multiple Choice (on grammar)

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Writing 1st Long Task

• One page news report
• Picture and headline provided
• 5W H and sufficient facts and info
• Response must related to picture
• Covers an event (not an advertisement)
• Written in 3rd person
• Correct language conventions

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Writing 2nd Long Task

• 2 pages series of paragraphs expressing an
  opinion
• minimum 3 paragraphs (intro, body, conclusion)
• Topic provided
• Clearly stated opinion, supporting facts,
  reasons, examples, details
• Coherent and organized
• Correct language conventions

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Writing Short Tasks

• Based on knowledge and experience
• Demonstration of writing skills
• Must be in complete sentences
• Six lines for each response
• Intro, body and conclusion

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Writing Multiple Choice Questions

• Based on the three main writing skills
• Develop a main idea with sufficient supporting
  details
• Organize information and ideas in a coherent
  manner
• Use language conventions

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What do we need to reinforce?

• Write in full sentences
• Use correct language conventions spelling,
  grammar, punctuation
• How to write in 3rd person
• Provide supporting details when writing
  paragraphs and series of paragraphs
• Organizing your writing