This video is one of a four-part series which is designed to introduce teachers and parents to standards and teaching in a standards-based environment, and aims to help teachers and parents understand how teaching with standards can change classrooms, work assignments, and student performance. This video demonstrates what starting to meet the English Language Arts standards looks like in the early grades. In the two classrooms the video focuses on, the teachers are working with their students on activities that are consistent with many of the Primary Literacy standards and are the first step toward helping the students meet the elementary school standards. (PM)