This handbook on teaching reading in vocational education is designed to provide vocational education teachers with a resource to use in helping students to develop sound reading skills. Provided in the handbook are information sheets, self-checks, practice activities, and suggestions for further reading dealing with the following topics: strategies for matching reading materials to student abilities (cloze procedure, fitting readability grades of text to student reading level, group informal textbook tests, and adjustments that enable students to cope with content reading); strategies for developing vocabulary and comprehension); and strategies for improving reading during content instruction (directed reading activities, study guides, and the SQ3R study formula). Appendixes to the handbook contain 22 teacher resource sheets, a reference and resource list, and answers to the self-checks. Included among the topics addressed in the individual resource sheets are introducing textbooks, words with general and technical meanings, reading symbols, directions for constructing crossword puzzles, constructing sight word exercises for content lessons, basic phonics instruction, signals for thought patterns, and reading technical materials. (MN)