Produced in response to a school board's directive to develop a plan for implementing a standardized curriculum in the basic subjects on a district-wide basis, this guide contains instructional objectives for the area of seventh grade language arts. Included in the guide are (1) an instructional objectives checklist providing all objectives and subobjectives and identifying those that are tested by various standardized achievement measures; (2) instructional resource sheets containing summaries for use in teaching a number of subobjectives; (3) objectives for student performance in aural communication, speaking, vocabulary development, reading comprehension, understanding literary elements and techniques, study skills, and writing; and (4) a student profile sheet for use by students and parents. Appendixes provide an overview of the objectives, a list of instructional films, a vocabulary list, a recommended reading list, and a list of commercially prepared games for language arts. (FL)