Essential skills for literacy practitioners : a guide and three workshops

Summary: This guide provides a foundation for literacy practitioners to learn more about the Nine Essential Skills and the Essential Skill Profiles. Current best practices for integrating the Essential Skills into Literacy and Basic Skills programming have been identified in case studies. The appendices contain three workshops with facilitation guides, handouts, and handout answer keys. The three workshops are: The Plain Goods on Essential Skill, Integrating Essential Skills, Essential Skills and the Ontario Adult Literacy Curriculum.