Uzbekistan’s education reform envisions a competency-based curriculum consisting of standards, a scope and sequence (S&S), textbooks, and teacher guides that align with an assessment system. The scope is the vocabulary, grammar, and skills that are taught over the course of a school year, and the sequence is the order in which those skills and content are presented. The S&S is an important element of a national curriculum and serves two primary purposes. First, it elucidates the curriculum, detailing the constituent elements of the standards or competencies, thus breathing life into the national curriculum framework. Second, it provides a blueprint for national textbooks, detailing content and its order. As a blueprint for the textbook, the S&S becomes the assessment framework as it identifies the skills, grammar, and vocabulary taught at any point in the academic year.