Every grade 10 student in Ontario needs to write the OSSLT. Your success on this test is a mandatory component of your graduating high school, along with your 30 credits and 40 community involvement hours.
OSSLT Information, Resources, and Practice Tests
What will be expected? - Writing Tasks
- Open Responses
- Multiple Choice
| What Else you Need to Know - Literacy Test is completed in one day
- Two booklets must be completed
- You will be given 2 test booklets and 1 student answer sheet
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Types of Writing Tasks- News Article
- Series of Paragraphs
- 2 Short Writing Tasks (need your own prior knowledge and personal experiences; not connected to the readings)
- Summary Writing is connected to the reading
| What You Will Need - Pen (Blue or Black Ink)
- Pencil
- Highlighter
 
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 READING- You need to be comfortable reading:
- Informational texts (200-220 words)
- Narrative texts
- Dialogue (225 words)
- Real-Life narrative (600 words)
- Graphic Texts
- Types of questions you can expect will include:
- Multiple Choice
- Open-response (6 lines each)
- So focus on ...
- understanding directly stated ideas and information (explicit)
- making connections between information and ideas in a reading selection and personal knowledge and experience
- Understanding indirectly stated ideas and information (implicit)
| WRITING- Writing tasks you can expect to do:
- News Reports
- 1 page in length
- Focus on the W5H, quotes, paragraph length, etc.
- Short writing tasks
- Six lines each
- Support your personal opinion on a topic
- Series of paragraphs expressing an opinion
- Summary with the reading
- For the writing, you will be evaluated on:
- Organization of ideas
- Sentence and paragraph structure
- Language conventions: use of capitalization and punctuation
- So Focus on:
- Developing a main idea with sufficient supporting details
- organizing information and ideas in a coherent/logical manner
- using spelling, grammar and punctuation conventions in a manner that does not distract from clear communication
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