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Success criteria posters provide clear, student-friendly expectations that align with the Ontario English curriculum across grades 9–12. They support consistency in assessment by outlining what success looks like in reading, writing, oral communication, and media studies. These visuals promote student independence by allowing learners to self-assess and reflect without always relying on teacher prompts. For diverse classrooms, the posters act as inclusive scaffolding tools that help all students

A part of the Ontario Literacy Course curriculum expectations is to be able to read a variety of texts. For "reading dialogue", an educator may use 'OSSLC Cinema' for foreign films with an assignment attached that also relates to the curriculum expectations: reading graphic texts and writing opinion paragraphs, information paragraphs, etc. For this assignment, it is related to "Kiki's Delivery Service"

In this resource, you will obtain a pre-reading assignment for the Orca book, "Daredevil Club", by Pam Withers. It contains an appropriate news report for students to read and then they will create an infographic. Rubric is attached.

Another way to 'present' virtually, is a virtual gallery walk. For this assignment, students will choose a topic – listed in the assignment. If you're using Google classroom, you can upload a Google document where they will choose a topic by simply putting their name next to it. First come, first serve. Under Google slides, students will 'present' their information. This assignment also includes a Rubric for evaluation.

A part of curriculum expectations of the Ontario Literacy Course is to be able to read a variety of texts. For "reading dialogue", an educator may use 'OSSLC Cinema' for foreign films with an assignment attached that also relates to the curriculum expectations: reading graphic texts and writing opinion paragraphs, information paragraphs, etc. For this assignment, it is related to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"

A part of the Ontario Literacy Course curriculum expectations is to be able to read a variety of texts. For "reading dialogue", an educator may use 'OSSLC Cinema' for foreign films with an assignment attached that also relates to the curriculum expectations: reading graphic texts and writing opinion paragraphs, information paragraphs, etc. For this assignment, it is related to "Life is Beautiful"

Students have the opportunity to choose from a variety of topics. Review of MLA format is included as well.

In this download, you will obtain a step-by-step instruction for how to create a photo essay for any piece of literature. This is perfect for distance learning as it can be used on any digital platform.

With distance learning, students are having challenges being able to communicate with their teacher in a formal way. This assignment contains scaffolding as well as an assignment and rubric to aid with this.

Included is a Hamlet Photo Essay Assignment, Planner, and a Rubric. This would be appropriate for a College or Locally Developed Class.

Contains an example news report that shows the elements of a news report.

A part of the Ontario Literacy Course curriculum expectations is to be able to read a variety of texts. For "reading dialogue", an educator may use 'OSSLC Cinema' for foreign films with an assignment attached that also relates to the curriculum expectations: reading graphic texts and writing opinion paragraphs, information paragraphs, etc. For this assignment, it is related to "The Red Balloon"