OSSLT 2010

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Specific Strategic Preparation for the OSSLT - Study Guide

What is Assessed on the OSSLT

Reading and Writing Skills

Reading is defined as the process through which the reader actively

makes meaning for a variety of written texts. Good readers do the following:

• understand explicitly stated information and ideas

• understand implicitly stated information and ideas (making inferences)

• make connections between information and ideas in a reading selection and personal knowledge and experience (interpreting reading selections by integrating information and ideas in a reading selection and personal knowledge and experience)

Writing is defined as the constructive process of communicating in the

written forms. Good student writers do the following:

• develop a main idea with sufficient supporting details

• organize information and ideas in a coherent manner

• use conventions (spelling, grammar, punctuation) in a manner that does not distract from clear communication

Literacy Committee Recommendations for OSSLT Prep and Administration for 2010

Characteristics of Successful and Unsuccessful Student Performance

Unsuccessful	Successful
The unsuccessful student’s work is characterized by:	The successful student’s work is characterized by:
Simplicity In ideas and sparse supporting details; in understanding and use of forms (e.g., personal essay, graphs and charts); and in vocabulary use	Complexity Big ideas, details selected to support generalizations; broad vocabulary; connects purposes, audience, and form
Repetition The small set of ideas selected from texts or chosen for writing are used repeatedly; narrow range of skill sets for choice of vocabulary and sentence structure; syntax is often drawn from oral language	Variety Range of literacy and fluency skills; navigates and adopts different types of expression; produces own ideas; syntax is that of written language where appropriate; flexibility of expression
Concreteness Focus on specifics of tasks; straight-forward purposes in reading or writing; heavy reliance on personal experience for evidence	Abstraction Uses symbols and visualization in understanding and expression; transfers skills and prior knowledge to new situations