This document describes the development of the language skills subprogram of the Hawaii English Program--Secondary. After considering various theories of instructional strategies in language, the team developed a pair of complementary subprograms: a part-to-whole skills lab for building up students' stocks of language options and a whole-to-part skills workshop for developing their sense of how to use the options in languaging with an aim. The skills lab concentrates on the phonological/graphological, semantic, and logical aspects of language usage and includes the following units: coding 1 and 2, word craft 1 and 2, sentence craft 1 and 2, passage craft 1 and 2, the reader's collection and study guides, and library skills and study skills. The skills workshops integrate these elements and add the rhetorical (or pragmatic) aspects of language usage, in six units: drama, poetry, games, broadcasting, newswriting, and courtroom. Several of these units are described. (LL)