Plymouth Canadian Academy

OLC4O - Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course

Course Outline

Course Title: Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course

Course Code: OLC4O

Grade: 12

Course Type: Open

Credit Value: 1.0

Prerequisite: Students who have been eligible to write the OSSLT at least twice and who have been unsuccessful at least once are eligible to take the course. (Students who have already met the literacy requirement for graduation may be eligible to take the course under special circumstances, at the discretion of the principal.)

Curriculum Policy Document: English, The Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course (OSSLC), The Ontario Curriculum, Grade 12, 2003

Course Developer: Plymouth Canadian Academy

Department: English

Developed Date: 2018

Most Recent Revised Date: 2020 by M, Abdel Ghani

Course Description

OLC4O 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.