One of a series of documents produced by a nationwide network of early childhood education specialists, teachers, parents, and Head Start staff, the document contains a language arts skills continuum to be used as a tool for individualizing instruction for students learning basic educational skills. A comprehensive set of learner objectives for each grade level from Head Start through sixth grade has been correlated to the instructional objectives set by a Texas school district. The skills continuum has been organized by curriculum areas and given a computer code. Global skills, terminal program objectives, and specific grade-level enabling objectives have been identified for each curriculum area and program goal. Although the learner objectives have been customized to a particular school district, a similar continuum could be adapted for any school district. (LH)