The behavioral objectives in this book, intended for teachers, supervisors, and administrators, are designed to assist in the content planning and assessment of accomplishments of courses in language and literature in grades K-12, and for use in developing the content of in-service courses. The language section contains behavioral objectives in the affective and cognitive domains which deal with the nature of language, the history of language, dialect, morphology, phonology, sentence patterns, form classes, syntax, and semantics. Examples illustrating the objectives are occasionally provided. The objectives in literature are grouped under children's literature, the short story, the novel, poetry, drama, the essay, and critical approaches to literature. Careful selection of appropriate objectives is advised with consideration to the grade level and ability of the students. (LL)