A collection of lessons for beginning reading instruction in Hmong includes 22 lessons on (1) natural resources (soil, water, rock and stone, trees, non-flowering fruit trees, and flowering fruit trees); (2) Hmong agricultural practices (planting vegetable gardens, choosing seeds, seed development, corn, cuttings, and spreading and standing crops); (3) animals (fish, land animals, amphibians, and reptiles, useful animals, harmful animals, turtles, and bats); (4) health (being healthy, healthful foods, and Hmong herbs); and (5) Hmong tools (tools for individual use and communal tools). (MSE)