SOLARO Study Guide for Ontario OSSLT, Secondary School Literacy Test is specifically designed to assist students prepare for quizzes, unit tests, and final exams throughout the year. It is 100% aligned with the Ontario curriculum and covers the following topics:

• 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. Challenger Questions provide students difficult questions that test their depth of knowledge. 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, numerical-response, and written-response questions that specifically test those concepts. To help students understand the curriculum, the SOLARO Study Guide provides explanations for key concepts at the beginning of each unit and practice questions. The SOLARO Study Guide includes sample year-end tests that students may use to become familiar with provincial exam format and rigour. Detailed solutions are provided for all questions. Solutions show the processes and ideas used in arriving at the correct answers and may help students gain a better understanding of the concepts being tested.