Prepared by teachers in a summer course, this handbook presents brief descriptions of various aspects of reading instruction and related lesson plans and class activities. Beginning with brief biographies of 5 leaders in reading education (both living and deceased), the handbook consists of sections that discuss reading readiness; word recognition; vocabulary; comprehension; content subject areas; and issues in reading. A reading teacher evaluation form; a 12-item annotated list of assessment tests; a reading improvement form; illustrations of multiple causes and effects, comparing and contrasting, making predictions, drawing conclusions, main idea and details, story map, and organizing ideas; and the Dolch basic sight word list are attached. (RS)