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Contents
Introduction ....................................................... 3 PurposeoftheCourse ................................................ 3 BenefitsoftheCourseforStudents ....................................... 6 CurriculumExpectations .............................................. 6
Strands ............................................................ 6 BuildingReadingSkills ............................................. 6 BuildingWritingSkills .............................................. 7 UnderstandingandAssessingGrowthinLiteracy ........................... 7
TeachingApproaches ................................................. 8 BuildingConfidence ............................................... 8 BuildingonOralLanguageSkills ...................................... 8 DevelopingReadingSkills ........................................... 9 DevelopingWritingSkills ............................................ 9 IntegratingReadingandWritingSkills .................................. 9
Assessment,Evaluation,andReporting ................................... 10 General and Specific Principles Guiding the Assessment of Student Achievement
intheOSSLC ...................................................... 10 OverviewofAssessmentintheOSSLC .................................... 10 TheLiteracyPortfolio ................................................. 10 LevelsofAchievementintheOSSLC ..................................... 11
ReportingonStudentAchievement ....................................... 11 EvaluationsDuringtheTerm:70PerCentoftheStudent’sGrade .............. 12 FinalEvaluation:30PerCentoftheStudent’sGrade ........................ 12
AccommodationsforStudentsWithSpecialNeeds ............................ 13 TheAchievementChartfortheOSSLC .................................... 15 OntarioSecondarySchoolLiteracyCourse,Grade12 ......................... 19
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