The OSSLT✦ Test Overview ✦ Reading Selections ✦ Grammar Questions ✦ Multiple Choice Tips

OSSLT 2016 Thurs. March 31

OSSLT Overview✦ Mandatory test written by

all Gr. 10’s

✦ Assesses reading & writing

✦ Successful completion is a grad requirement (70%)

✦ 4 test booklets taking place over 2.5 hours (2 question & answer booklets)

Prep at DSSS✦ Literacy Thursdays up until the week of

March Break (video lesson & exercise)

✦ Counting on You - OSSLT Prep. (1 month twice a week or 3 days during March Break)

✦ SARS Sessions (Students At-Risk Support) beginning the week before the OSSLT

✦ Lunch Drop-In the week of the OSSLT

Prep at Suzuki

Literacy Thursdays✦ Lesson #1: Reading & Grammar

✦ Lesson #2: Short Responses

✦ Lesson #3: Opinion Essay - Outline & Intro

✦ Lesson #4: Opinion Essay - Body & Conclusion

✦ Lesson #5: News Report

Reading & GrammarMultiple Choice Questions

Reading Selections✦ Information Paragraph*

✦ News Report*

✦ Dialogue*

✦ Real-Life Narrative

✦ Graphic Text

Each reading text is followed by multiple choice questions &

open response questions*.

http://www.eqao.com/en/assessments/OSSLT/assessment-docs/planning-preparation-guide-osslt-2016.pdf

Graphic Text✦ Don’t underestimate

this type of reading selection!

✦ Presents ideas & information via graphic features (diagrams, photos, drawings, sketches, timetables, patterns, maps, charts or tables)

Graphic Text TipsRead all titles,

headings, captions

Read labels & figure out how

they’re connected to the graphic

Follow all arrows & lines

Pay attention to font changes

Grammar Q’sTypes of Multiple Choice Q’s: ✦ Choose the sentence that is written correctly ✦ Choose the option that best combines a series

of sentences ✦ Choose the best option as a concluding

sentence for the paragraph ✦ Choose the sentence that doesn’t belong in the

paragraph ✦ Choose the sentence that needs revision ✦ Choose the best place to insert the sentence ✦ Choose the sentence with the comma error

Multiple Choice Tips✦ Rule out answers that you

know are wrong

✦ Don’t rely on your memory, double-check the reading selection

✦ Don’t leave any blank answers (just guess!)

✦ Correctly fill in the bubble

PRACTICE!✦ News Report: Canadian Groundhogs

✦ Graphic Text: Life of a Pothole

✦ Grammar & Sentence Structure

Answers are going to be displayed on the next

slide…PAUSE THE VIDEO!

SolutionsCanadian

GroundhogsLife of a Pothole

Grammar & Sentence Structure

1. C 2. A 3. B 4. D 5. C 6. C 7. D

1. B 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. B

1. D 2. B 3. A 4. D

MORE PRACTICE: http://www.eqao.com/en/assessments/OSSLT/Pages/example-assessment-materials-2015.aspx