It is stated that a consideration of minimal outcomes is feasible and crucial to educational improvement and to pupil gain both in learning and in personal development. This guide has therefore been designed to present the fundamental core of learnings to be derived from the educational experience of the elementary and intermediate school levels. The observable achievement standards for each of the 12 subject areas in this volume have been grouped into spans of grade levels. Differentiation in types of learning has been specified by the categorization of behaviors into: (1) skills; (2) knowledge and concepts; and (3) attitudes, appreciation, and values. Each statement is behaviorally structured for observable performance as the measure of pupil achievement. (RLV)