Directed to Oregon administrators and language arts teachers at all instructional levels, this publication discusses numerous aspects of a goal-based language arts curriculum. Separate sections deal with goal-based planning for the language arts; assessment; relating language arts instructional programs to minimum standards; language arts program goals; relating classroom instruction to the total goal-based language arts program; developing elective courses in language arts; suggested language arts skills for each grade level from kindergarten through grade 12; suggested language arts program content; reading in the content areas; teaching reading in language arts classes; teaching career education as part of the language arts program; and resources available to the language arts teacher. Appendixes provide self-evaluation checklists for the department chair, for the teacher, and for the principal, along with suggestions for construction, administration, and scoring of an informal reading inventory. (GW)