Purposes and activities of the Targeted Research and Development Project No. 3 are described. The project seeks to identify and describe the national reading problem, methods of reading instruction, and the training of reading teachers. The project, a literature search, is designed to identify literature related to reading instruction, to develop a reliable and valid method for evaluating that literature, and to apply the method to the comprehensive body of identified research. Steps in the project include (1) a search of the literature in the ERIC system, Education Index, Psychological Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, Dissertation Abstracts, government publications, and a number of other sources, expected to identify approximately 1,200 reports; (2) a review of the documents by a preliminary selection committee; (3) a critical review by a second committee of qualified and trained readers; and (4) a cross validation of the literature to provide analytical summaries of aspects of reading for use by various audiences. Forms used in identifying and analyzing documents are included. (MS)