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WELCOME TO THE LITERACY PAGE
To support our grade 10 students and some of the grade 11 students who will be writing the Ontario Literacy Test on Mar 29, Clarington Central is offering after school preparation session:
Feb 22, Feb 27, Feb 29, Mar 5, Mar 7, Mar 19, Mar 21
Students are to go to the library and Ms. Sadera will redirect them to the classrooms. The sessions will run from 2:30 PM until 4:00PM. Pizza will be provided! |
Our new Literacy Coordinator is Mrs. Faith Sadera. You can contact her at faith_sadera@kprdsb.ca or by calling the school at (905) 697-9857 ext 432
ONTARIO SECONDARY SCHOOL LITERACY TEST (OSSLT)
At Clarington Central we recognize that literacy and numeracy are the building blocks for success in all curriculum areas and in all of life’s endeavours, both personal and occupational. Students with the ability to decode and apply meaning to texts, and to develop inferences and draw conclusions, become confident, independent life-long learners. Fostering these skills and abilities is our primary goal. This means ensuring that students working toward an Ontario Secondary School Diploma will be successful on the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test, but it also means ensuring that all of our students attain a level of literacy which will enable them to meet their individual goals.
The OSSLT will be written by all Grade 10 students across the province on Thursday March 29, 2012. Students in Ontario are required to pass the Literacy Test in order to graduate.
The purpose of OSSLT is to ensure that students have acquired the essential reading and writing skills that apply to all subject areas in the provincial curriculum up to the end of Grade 9.
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WHEN Thursday March 29, 2012 during periods 1 and 2
WHAT Writing two 75 minute booklets covering a variety of reading and writing tasks Reading selections include: information paragraph, news report, dialogue, real life narrative, graphic text Reading selections are followed by multiple choice and short answer questions Two long writing tasks - news report and series of paragraphs expressing an opinion
WHERE Rooms will be assigned prior to the test. |
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OSSLT HOME PAGE
Students who have been eligible to write the OSSLT at least twice and have been unsuccessful at least once are eligible to fulfill the requirement through the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course (OSSLC). Successful completion of the OSSLT or OSSLC is a graduation requirement.
LAST YEAR'S RESULTS
To view last year's results, please select the EQAO link from the menu bar at the left of the screen.
"When parents are involved in their children's education at home, they do better in school. And when parents are involved in school, children go farther in school and the schools they go to are better." A New Generation of Evidence: The Family is Critical to Student Achievement. (Henderson & Berla, 1994) |
Did you know?
Studies in reading have shown that children whose parents read to them for 20 minutes 3 times per week from the age of 6 mos. have a significant advantage over other children in acquiring reading skills.
Seeing adults of BOTH genders reading has a direct correlation with the value children place on reading! Boys in particular benefit from seeing the men in their lives engaged in reading, whether it’s a newspaper, magazine, how to book or best seller!
PLANNING
Beginning in October all students will begin to be introduced to the format of the OSSLT and be coached on successful literacy strategies in their regular curriculum classes. At the same time we will be working to identify students who are eligible to write the test, and students who will require additional support in order to be successful. Following are links to documents which will give you an overview of our initiatives for this year. More information will be published as it becomes available.
We will be posting up to date announcements regarding dates and times.
Do you know a struggling reader?
One of the most important things struggling readers should know is that “good” readers aren’t just reading effortlessly – they’re employing a number of strategies which help them! Some examples follow:
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Rereading |
Good readers reread passages that are confusing. Sometimes it will be necessary to reread more than once. |
Retelling
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Good readers use retelling to identify and remember important ideas. |
Making Connections |
Good readers construct meaning by connecting their prior knowledge to information in the text. |
Visualizing
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Good readers create their own visual and other sensory images during reading to better understand, remember, and enjoy texts. |
Questioning
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Good readers ask themselves questions to focus their attention and clarify meaning. They make predictions before reading, look for evidence during reading and analyze the answers they came up with after reading to help themselves create meaning. |
Making Inferences
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Good readers use prior knowledge and information in a text to create meanings not explicitly stated. |
Determining Important Ideas
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Determining the important ideas in texts helps readers identify information that is essential to know and remember. Most texts offer a variety of visual clues which aids in determining what is important, e.g., pictures, charts, graphs, bold print, and subtitles. |
Understanding Text Structure |
Good readers use their understanding of how narratives and essays are constructed to help them understand content. |
Summarizing |
Good readers identify important ideas in a text and use them to develop oral and written summaries. If a reader can paraphrase the main ideas of a text in his/her own words, this demonstrates a high degree of understanding. |
Synthesizing |
Synthesizing is a complex process that involves connection of ideas with prior knowledge, visualization, questioning, inferring, and summarizing. Good readers synthesize information to develop new ideas and create meaning. |
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