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June 2009 N-FICTION WRITING IN 2008-09 June 2009 CASI (Comprehension Attitude Strategies Interests) Reading Assessment for has been distributed to all TDSB schools, and its use has been supported by training board-wide. ages include reading passages and other components such as oral The Early Years: Parenting and Family Literacy Centres in TDSB states that to support the continuity of early literacy for children, Parenting and Family Literacy Centres, Child Ca June 2009 Early Years Literacy Project (EYLP) English/Literacy Instructional Leaders provided professional development and resource support for an intensive literacy focus in TDSB’s Early Years Literacy Project schools (1999 to 2009). EYLP was designed to improve reading and writing skills for students in Kindergarten to Grade 3, and was instrumental in helping more students in the primary years read and write at grade level. PROGRAMS FOR LITERACY IMPROVEMENT Reading Recovery™ is a one-to-one intervention program for students in Grade 1 who are at-risk readers and writers. The program is available in 206 TDSB schools. Teachers participate in intensive training in their first year of teaching, and are c ontinuously trained throughout the time they are teaching Reading Recovery™. A trained teacher will teach from 8 to 12 students per year in a half-time morning assignment. Teachers work one-on-one with student s in 30-minute lessons for a maximum of twenty weeks. Students selected for Reading Recovery™ ar e first assessed, and are the lowest achievers in reading and writing in the classroom. The program s hows a high success rate in helping students work June 2009 SUPPORTING STUDENT LITERACY SUCCESS: KINDERGARTEN TO GRADE 6 During the school year and in annual Summer Institu tes, the English/Literacy Department makes Continuing Support for Student and School Success: The Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test The English/Literacy department makes available June 2009 Grade 10 OSSLT Preparation Course Schools offer this 10-hour test-preparation mini-cour se (non-credit) after school in January/February to prepare at-risk students for success on the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test Support ills: Non-Credit Program (Grade 10) teachers teach students important test-taking skills (e.g., answering different kinds of questions) and other literacy skills that are key for success on the test. This document is distributed to schools through the Continuing Education Cross-curricular Literacy Support, Grades 7 to 12 Since 2000, the English/Literacy Department has provi ded on-going leadership in resource development Revised Language Curriculum Grades 1 to 8 and Revised English Curriculum Grades 9 to 12 The English/Literacy Department continues to s upport implementation of the revised curriculum in Grades 1 to 12, and to highlight the many ways th e curriculum can help teachers enhance and enrich students’ reading, writing, oral communicati on and media literacy skills for school success. Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course (OSSLC) Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course is available to students in Grades 11 or 12 who have , as an alternate way for them to acquire their literacy graduation requirement. Schools are strongly encouraged to offer the course to students who have been unsuccessful on the OSSLT, since the literacy skills it teaches are essential for student success in all subjects. The English/Literacy Department contin ues to provide professional development to teachers to ensure that they have the strategies and resources they need to help all students receive their graduation literacy requirement. Support in cludes reading and writing exemplars (samples of student work at various levels of achievement) to he lp teachers identify and a pply a fair and consistent pass/fail standard for this high-stakes course. Grade 9 and 10 Locally-developed Compulsory Credit Courses (ENG 1L and ENG 2L) TDSB is deeply committed to improving the liter acy achievement of these at-risk students. The English/Literacy Department provides on-going professional development opportunities to teachers of these courses, along with support for the appropriate t eaching resources and strategies that will engage these learners in higher-order thinking and critical literacy skills important to their school and future success. June 2009 RESOURCES THAT IMPROVE LITERACY ACHIEVEMENT Access Success! Boys and Literacy Achievement, Grades 6-10 This TDSB resource document addresses the gaps The TDSB is committed to providing opportunities fo r students to demonstrate success and achievement in literacy at the highest levels. Urban Voices/L’echo de la ville is an annual publication (Volume 1 was June 2009 NNING TEACHERS TDSB provides extensive support to teachers their first and second years of teaching in all schools and Families of Schools. An important aspect of the Beginning Teachers initiative is the pairing of new teachers with experienced teachers who have effective interpersonal and teaching skills, who act as mentors for beginning teachers. English/Literacy Instructional Leaders provide direct support for the professional learning of