The specific educational objectives or basic learning skills are listed for the Virginia elementary school grades. Minimum skills are listed in reading, communications, and mathematics. Terminal objectives for reading include skills in word identification or decoding, comprehension, and study skills. Communication skills include listening, speaking, and writing. For mathematics, skills are included to ensure competency in numeration, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, measurement, metrics, times, money, length, mass (weight), temperature, capacity, geometry, and charts and graphs. For each numbered terminal objective, the specific competencies are listed; for example, "The student will identify the letters of the alphabet." For each competency, the grade level of students who should master that objective is specified. (MH)