This paper offers many specific suggestions for improving community college reading instruction through counseling and content. Such topics are discussed as reading and writing laboratories; multimedia instruction; group instruction classes in basic reading skills, vocabulary and study skills, and analytical and critical reading; individualized instruction; training tutors to work in the labs; individual conferences; materials for reading instruction; the role of tutors; the cloze method for instructional and testing purposes; the Fernald tracing method in a beginning reading program; and oral reading. (TS)