A compilation of papers submitted by the faculty of a teacher training institute, this manual is for reading teachers of adult students. The titles and their subtopics are as follows: (1) Introduction: Student Viewpoint; (2) Recruitment and Retention of the Adult Learner (recruitment information and techniques, how to be a successful recruiter, other recruitment techniques and ideas, retention, news release); (3) Making and Meeting Objectives (outline, content, preparing your package, individualized check sheet, annotated bibliography on individualized instruction); (4) Individually Prescribed Instruction, IPI (test-diagnose-prescribe-treat, developing IPI products, characteristics of good programed instructional products); (5) Teaching Reading to the Adult Learner (assessing entering behavior, an informal reading inventory); (6) Vocabulary Development for Adults (multiple meanings, levels I and II; multiple meaning, level III; analogies, level II; word structure, level III; comminalities, level II); (7) Teaching Meaning Skills to Adolescents and Adults; (8) Evaluating ABE (adult basic education) Instruction and Materials (reading instruction is in three domains, effective instruction requires three steps, evaluation criteria, evaluation form); and (9) Adult Performance Level (APL) Modules: An Example of Competency-Based Curricula for Adult Education (early responses to mandate for action, the APL concept--a model for curriculum development, module effectiveness and implementation, implications for curriculum implementation, references, highest ranking tasks, criteria for selection of tasks). (EM)