The National Association for Sport and Physical Education's (NASPE) Physical Best program and the Cooper Institute for Aerobic Research's (CIAR) FITNESSGRAM have established a partnership to create a comprehensive health-related fitness education and assessment package. The goal of the Physical Best program is to enable students to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes to achieve physical fitness. The goal of FITNESSGRAM is to assess and provide information to students regarding their personal fitness levels. The FITNESSGRAM is a comprehensive assessment program designed to measure health-related fitness and activity levels in school-aged children. This article is not intended to be a comprehensive overview of FITNESSGRAM, but rather to provide critical elements and cues in chart form. FITNESSGRAM provides assessment tools to evaluate the components of health-related fitness. These tools have "testing protocols" or sets of instruction for conducting each of the tests. The testing protocols provide specific criteria or "critical elements" that allow students to take the test correctly. This article provides teachers with a description of five FITNESSGRAM test items and a table/checklist of critical elements and cues for each test item. The FITNESSGRAM test items covered in this article are the PACER, Push-up, Curl-up, Trunk Lift, and Back-Saver Sit and Reach. (Contains 5 tables.)