Communication across the Curriculum: A Common Essential Learning for Saskatchewan Students. A Study Completed for Saskatchewan Education Core Curriculum Investigation Project. Summary Paper.

Because communication has been determined to be an essential part of all subject areas, not just English classes, this curriculum guide recommends a method for integrating communication across the curriculum in Saskatchewan (Canada) schools, from kindergarten to grade 12. The introduction defines communication skills as essential learning in education that consists of speaking, reading, writing, listening, viewing, and other forms of nonverbal communication, and the first chapter goes into further detail about what communication across the curriculum entails. The second chapter deals with literacy as a common essential learning, and discusses how literacy relates to communication across the curriculum and standard English. The third chapter presents a rationale that describes what communication across the curriculum is and is not, while the fourth chapter describes the organization of the communication across the curriculum skills matrix used in the recommended curriculum. The role of the teacher in communication across the curriculum is discussed in the fifth chapter, and the sixth chapter is concerned with communication across the curriculum in Canada. Recommendations are enumerated in the seventh chapter, while the scope and sequence of the curriculum program is spelled out in the eighth chapter. References for the prose section of the guide, a bibliography of sources used to prepare the scope and sequence charts for the recommended curriculum, and the charts themselves conclude the document. (SKC)