This guide is intended to assist home economics teachers in designing lessons and activities that will reinforce reading skills in consumer and homemaking education programs. Included in the guide are a total of 60 mini-lessons on the following areas of home economics: child development; family relationships; foods and nutrition; consumer education; housing, home furnishings, and equipment; and clothing and textiles. Each activity contains some or all of the following: content area, level of difficulty, home economics content objective, reading objective, learning activity, and source. An appendix contains the answers to all the activities. Also included is a matrix that details (1) the number(s) of the learning activities in which a particular reading skill is reinforced and (2) whether a given reading skill is required to pass the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test. (MN)