This course guide provides a survey of reading instruction and a description of the skills necessary for teaching reading in the elementary classroom. The purpose of the course is to help the student develop into a competent teacher of reading at the elementary school level through a competency-based approach to teacher education. Each instructional module contains a list of prerequisites, a rationale, a preparticipation assessment, objectives, learning activities, additional activities, and related materials. The topics for the learning modules are an introduction to competency-based teacher education, stating behavioral objectives in reading, the nature of the reading process, assessing performance in reading, readings about reading, word identification, developing comprehension skills, using the basal reader, approaches to reading instruction including language experience and individualized reading, work study skills, individualizing instruction, readability, and children with reading difficulties. (MKM)