This manual for language arts instructors contains a basic core of instruction in English that provides updated and extensive vocationally related application of such basic English skills as reading, writing, and practical usage. Attention is also focused on assisting students with life and study skills. The material should be adapted to individual needs and be supplemented by the instructor's own methods and materials. Eight sections and 23 instructional units are included. Each unit of instruction consists of eight basic components: performance objectives, teacher activities, information sheets (content essential for meeting the cognitive objectives), assignment sheets (applications of knowledges that are prerequisites to skill development), job sheets (procedures to complete a manipulative or psychomotor skill), transparency masters, tests, and test and assignment sheet answers. The eight sections are (1) Related Vocational Information (Study Skills, Importance of School Records, and Vocabulary), (2) Related Vocational Skills (Safety Vocabulary and Social Security), (3) Personal Development (Know Yourself), (4) Parts of Speech (Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Conjunctions and Interjections, and Prepositions), (5) Writing Skills (Subjects, Complete Subject and Predicate, Sentences, Sentence Fragments and Run-on Sentences, Capital Letters, End Marks, and Apostrophes), (6) Library Skills (Using the Library), (7) Practical Usage (Using the Dictionary), and (8) Life Skills (Reading the Newspaper, Giving Directions, and Following Directions). (YLB)