The objective of this teaching guide is to provide a comprehensive system for individualizing reading instruction through planning, organization, management, and skillful teaching. The planning stage involves establishing goals, reality bases, work bases and flows, and review, evaluation, and revision. The organization of program content involves structures and foundations of reading, a scope and sequence for the program, and readability evaluations of materials. The environmental management component involves management of both materials and the classroom. Effective teaching, finally, must include both an instructional strand (including assessment using informal inventory, and actual instruction), and an independent reading strand. Additional sections on working with beginning readers and the whole process in action are also included. (DS)