This manual describes an English skills program which provided individualized basic skills instruction to 280 low-achieving high school students. English teachers and reading teachers worked together in the English classroom to meet the needs of students whom guidance counselors had determined, through achievement test scores, IQ, classroom performance, and teacher recommendations, to be in need of special assistance. In the skills class, each student was given diagnostic testing, basic skills instruction, and a prescriptive program of remediation. Students remained in the program until they reached the potential level needed for achievement in traditional English classes or until they graduated from high school. (KS)