The student manual has been designed primarily for beginning students in a high school level vocational program in building maintenance. A workbook for special needs students, the document does not cover all areas of custodial training but has been written for the purpose of refining the basic skills of reading comprehension, vocabulary building, spelling, word usage, and word recognition while relating these skills to some of the tasks a beginning student must know. Some of the building maintenance skills covered include dust-mopping and buffing floors, vacuuming, dusting, and lavatory cleaning. Lessons are intended to coincide with performing the actual activity in a shop situation. (Author/LJ)