Description
Your no-prep solution to teach the mandated tasks for the Ontario Literacy Course (OLC4O and OSSLC)! This freshly updated unit includes a full semester’s worth of literacy lessons, comprehension passages, activities, graphic organizers, and assessments. Designed to align with the OLC Ontario Literacy Course curriculum, it ensures comprehensive coverage of essential literacy skills.
Develop essential literacy skills through the exploration of informational, narrative, and graphic texts. Suitable for online learning with digital resources for Google Classroom®, this package supports the OLC Ontario Literacy Course by providing versatile materials adaptable to various teaching environments.
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This full course bundle scaffolds essential literacy for middle school and high school students with a full semester’s worth of engaging and age-appropriate activities. It can be used in any classroom for remedial learning, special education, or teaching cross-curricular literacy skills, making it an ideal resource for educators implementing the OLC Ontario Literacy Course.
For Ontario educators: This unit is a great foundation for teaching the Ontario Literacy Course (OLC4O / OSSLC) or preparing students for the Ontario Literacy Test (OSSLT). By aligning with the OLC Ontario Literacy Course standards, it ensures students are well-prepared to meet provincial literacy requirements.
Units included in this OLC Ontario Literacy Course:
☞ Unit 1: Reading and Writing News Reports
- Headlines and Leads
Students will use knowledge of form, structure, and purpose to make sense of news reports, a key component of the OLC Ontario Literacy Course.
- Writing a News Article Summary
Students will utilize the W5H model to analyze and summarize a news report.
- Expository Articles and Comprehension Questions
Students will analyze multiple news reports, applying their knowledge of the conventions of spoken language, text, and visual media to understand texts and demonstrate their comprehension, as outlined in the OLC Ontario Literacy Course.
- Writing a News Report
Students will compose a news report, demonstrating their ability to organize and publish information effectively.
☞ Supplementary Resources
- News Report Graphic Organizer
- News Article Text Features Review Game
☞ Unit 2: Reading Strategies
- Making Predictions
Students will use prior knowledge and experience to make sense of texts, a strategy supported by the OLC Ontario Literacy Course framework.
- Making Inferences
Students will extend their understanding of texts, including increasingly complex texts, by connecting the ideas in them to their own knowledge, experience, and insights, to other texts, and to the world around them.
- Summarizing Nonfiction Texts
Students will use writing strategies to locate and summarize important information in nonfiction texts, a skill emphasized in the OLC Ontario Literacy Course.
- Writing a Nonfiction Summary
Students will read about financial literacy, the power of branding, and the geography of cuisine and will be evaluated on their nonfiction summary of each text.
☞ Unit 3: Information Texts
- Information Literacy
Students will analyze different forms of information writing to identify bias, purpose, reliability, and audience, as required by the OLC Ontario Literacy Course.
- Information Text Features
Students will recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate an understanding of how they help communicate meaning.
- Information Articles and Comprehension Questions
Students will analyze multiple news reports, applying their knowledge of the conventions of spoken language, text, and visual media to understand texts and demonstrate their comprehension.
- Writing an Information Paragraph Lesson
Students will analyze, interpret, evaluate, and synthesize information within texts.
- Writing an Information Paragraph Assignment
Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience.
☞ Supplementary Resources
- Information Text Features Anchor Chart
- Information Paragraph Writing Worksheets
☞ Unit 4: Graphic Texts
- How to Read Graphic Texts
Students will analyze, interpret, evaluate, and synthesize information within graphic texts.
- Categories of Graphic Texts
Students will recognize features of graphic texts and demonstrate an understanding of how they help communicate meaning.
☞ Unit 5: Narrative Texts
- Dramatic Narrative Texts
Students will respond to and interact with a variety of print and media texts.
- Nonfiction Narrative Texts
Students will explore the organizational structures of nonfiction narrative texts.
- Real-Life Narrative Articles and Comprehension Questions
Students will use knowledge of text features to locate information and to make predictions about the content of texts.
- Cover Letter Writing Lesson and Assignment
Students will demonstrate their understanding of audience and tone to write for formal purposes.
- Community Interview Project
Students will use oral and written language to generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience.
☞ Supplementary Resources
- Narrative Structure Graphic Organizers
- “Borders” by Thomas King – Short Story Unit
☞ Unit 6: Opinion Writing
- Persuasive Writing Lesson
Students will use knowledge of style and purpose to distinguish between different forms of writing.
- Main Idea and Supporting Details
Students will identify the main idea of texts.
- Types of Evidence
Students will identify different categories of supporting evidence.
- Lincoln-Douglas Debate Assignment
Students will use oral and written language to generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience, as emphasized in the OLC Ontario Literacy Course.
- Series of Opinion Paragraphs
Students will use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively.
☞ Supplementary Resources
- 20 Topics for Persuasive Writing
☞ Unit 7: Culminating Project / Independent Study Unit (ISU)
- Plan a Vacation Project
This project is designed to take students on a trip anywhere in the world while evaluating writing using four writing tasks: narrative text, infographic, news report, and information text. Students will research about culture, geography, politics, and current events to demonstrate their understanding of various essential writing skills.
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See what other teachers are saying about this OLC Ontario Literacy Course:
“This curriculum is outstanding! This is the first time that I’ve bought a full course on TPT because the price tag is a lot (especially with the conversion for Canadians), but reflecting on the fact that I’ve had to do virtually no planning or prep for the OLC this year, I actually think that this unit is a steal. There is so much included that you can’t download it in one zip file but the seller conveniently prepared a Dropbox folder which really helped in facilitating the organization of the bundle. Every unit is well organized, at the end of every week I just check the pacing guide and get my Google Classroom ready with the lessons provided. Overall I am really happy that I bit the bullet and purchased this curriculim. I can even use it with my other English courses.”
– Morgan G.
⭒ For classrooms utilizing Google Classroom® ⭒
To access the digital version of these worksheets, simply follow the instructions within the resource to copy the files directly to your Google Drive®.
