It is essential to start with the outcomes themselves, along with the suboutcomes and indicators, which specifically address the levels of a particular student or group of students, looking for links to the curriculum that are natural and appropriate. Flexibility for teacher decision making is crucial in planning for integration. Within tasks, options are often suggested for the content areas addressed. Teachers may elect to try the tasks as written or select the specific activities that serve as building blocks leading to mastery of specific outcomes. Since reading and writing are integral to performance across all content areas, every effort has been made to show natural and appropriate connections between these two disciplines as well as their significant linkages with other disciplines.
Appendices provide additional information for both reading and writing.
Finally, analyzing exemplars written for various disciplines and various grade levels provides an opportunity to examine a broader range of strategies, methodologies and approaches which support performance-based instruction and assessment.