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This course emphasizes key skills in reading,
writing, oral communication, and thinking that students need for continuing
success in their secondary school subjects, and to communicate with others in
their lives outside of school. The units suggest instructional strategies and a
developmental approach to teaching the expectations that are essential for
students’ success. This course gives students a solid literacy skills
foundation to enter Grade 11 English, Workplace and to prepare them for
successful completion of the Grade 10 Test of Reading and Writing Skills
(OSSLT). Students read key informational and literary text forms, including
novels, editorials, magazine feature articles and poetry, for personal and
academic purposes. They use their knowledge of media to create media works.
Students will produce clear, complete writing in a variety of narrative and
non-narrative forms for real-life purposes (including world of work), using
appropriate and correct language. In particular, the course encourages students
to develop and reflect upon the strategies that will improve their literacy
competence and confidence.