This book is designed to assist those who work with non-English dominant students by providing resource information relevant to second language teaching and learning. The articles in the series encompass both theory and practical learning techniques in six general topics. The third text of the series includes five articles on reading and writing. The first, "Reading as Skill, Structure, and Communication," by Charles W. Kreidler, discusses the four major skills that reading requires: eye movement, visual discrimination, association, and interpretation. The second article, "Reading in ESL," by Pat Rigg, suggests general guidelines for increasing reading proficiency of ESL students based on a research project that studied reading of ESL speakers. The third article, "Communication Techniques and Teaching Reading," by Barbara Freed, relates oral communication to reading. The fourth article, "Teaching Composition in the ESL Class: What We Can Learn from Research in the Teaching of English," by Vivian Zamel, explains the methodology for teaching composition in the second language classroom. The fifth article, "Teaching Writing in the ESOL Classroom: Techniques of Controlled Composition," by Christina Bratt Paulston, examines some basic concepts in teaching composition and studies classroom procedures and techniques of controlling composition. Appended are a list of abbreviations and definitions used in the book and a list of materials and services available from the Bureau of Bilingual Education, New York State Education Department. (Author/NCR)