The Education Quality and Accountability Office's website supports Ontario education by offering assessment tools for the standardized testing that occurs in Grades 3, 6, 9 and 10 in Ontario. It provides schoolwide data, test frameworks, practice tests and webinars to improve student research and learning outcomes. Students benefit from clear benchmarks and all the learning supports offered here. Search 'OSSLT' within the website for OSSLT-specific resources.
The Literacy Committee at SJA has created a comprehensive website for you to get all your necessary OSSLT information and practice in one place. Administration dates, test formats, and targeted lessons and practice are made available in a more accessible and task oriented manner so that you can work at your own pace, completing one task at a time. Superbly useful.
General Literacy Resources
This site has been designed and curated by leading consultants and literacy program coordinators in the board, with a focus on the explicit teaching of literacy skills; there are several lessons walking students through strategies to improve both reading and writing skills for a variety of forms, genres, and disciplines.
Literacy at Home and the OSSLT1.pptxThere are lots of ways to support literacy at home as well. Review the YCDSB slideshow provided, which will walk you through strategies for providing a literacy rich environment at home, starting with reading materials you value (whether in comics, gaming, film or finance) to the types of questions to ask to promote literacy skills.
The University of Toronto website provides a thorough list of valuable PDF documents to help students with a variety of writing lessons, tips and skills, such as how to write an annotated bibliography, a literary essay, or a lab report. Do not pass on the grammar pdfs either -- these concise documents explain challenging grammatical concepts with ease and clarity.