This instructional resource guide contains a variety of learning activities categorized according to specific instructional objectives for functional writing development. The activities were developed, reviewed, and evaluated by participants in Project Basic of the Maryland public school system. Thirty-eight objectives are arranged under five competencies--recording personal information, writing messages and reports, writing letters, completing forms, and writing sentences and coherent paragraphs. Each objective contains the following information: (1) instructional specifications (instructional level, curriculum concepts/content, and behaviors to be demonstrated), (2) suggested learning activities, (3) suggested classroom evaluation procedures, (4) extended activities, and (5) lists of vocabulary/key words needed to understand the concepts taught within the objectives. (RL)