The OSSLT measures whether students are meeting the minimum standard for literacy across all subjects up to the end of Grade 9. Successful completion of the literacy test is one of the requirements to earn an Ontario Secondary School Diploma. The administration of the OSSLT will take place in October or March every year. Students who pass the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course (code: OLC40) will have met the OSSLT literacy test requirement.
TSA offers the OLC40 course for students who do not pass the OSSLT as an option to meet the OSSD requirement for literacy.
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 (OSSLT). 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 portfolio containing a record of their reading experiences and samples of their writing.