This curriculum guide offers suggestions and guidelines for teaching adults reading, writing, spelling, and arithmetic, together with vocational skills, basic citizenship and social studies, and other skills and attitudes to help disadvantaged adults live and function more successfully. Specific subject matter, desired skills and concepts, and teaching procedures are indicated for three achievement levels: beginning (grades 0-3; intermediate (4-6); and junior high (7-9). Provisions for student recruitment, counseling, and evaluation, and for teaching English to the foreign born, are also suggested. Bibliographies of instructional materials and professional reading are included. (ly)