Designed to offer guidance to educators in creating a local curriculum guide (K-12), the four-part organization of this bulletin directs the curriculum planner "from need to intention, from intention to plans, from plans to paper, and from paper to practice." Among the topics covered are the conditions desirable for creating a curriculum guide; the organization of the guide; the amount of material on communication skills, language, composition, and literature to be incorporated; and methods for implementing and revising the completed project. Appended are lists of materials helpful to the curriculum planner (e.g., professional books, journals, curriculum guides, and bibliographies of research and booklists). (LH)