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The key study guide for osslt is specifically designed to assist students to prepare for the ontario secondary school literacy test throughout the year. It is 100% aligned with the ontario curriculum, focusing primarily on preparing students for the written response and reading comprehension components of the osslt. The resource focuses on the skills students are expected to have learned by the end of grade 9. The suggestions and strategies for approaching writing and reading should be used in conjunction with curriculum concepts and content studied in the classroom. The key addresses the following skills: * understanding explicitly stated ideas and information * understanding implicitly stated ideas and information * making connections between information and ideas in a reading and personal knowledge and experience * using strategies with informational articles, visual texts, and narrative passages * developing a main idea with sufficient supporting details * organizing information and ideas in a coherent manner * using conventions (grammar, punctuation, spelling) * using strategies with news reports, opinion paragraphs, and summaries * general tips for multiple-choice and open-response reading tests each unit includes essential teaching pieces, practice questions, unit tests, answers, and detailed solutions. The complete solutions show problem-solving methods, explain key concepts and highlight potential errors. The resource is ideal for yearlong use by students, teachers, and parents at home or at school. A table of correlations at the beginning of each unit identifies the curriculum outcomes for the unit as well as the multiple-choice questions that specifically test those concepts. To help students understand the curriculum, the key provides explanations for key concepts at the beginning of each unit and practice questions.