GRADE 12 ONTARIO SECONDARY SCHOOL LITERACY COURSE
Course Code: OLC4O
Prerequisite: Students who have been eligible to write the OSSLT and who have been unsuccessful are eligible to take the course.
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. 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 literacy portfolio containing a record of their reading experiences and samples of their writing.