This manual is intended to assist volunteer coordinators involved in the Kansas Volunteer Tutor Utilization (KV-TUTOR) project. The first section, which deals with planning, covers management by objectives and a clarification system to test objectives that is denoted by the acronym SMAC (specific, measurable, achievable, compatible). A section on evaluations covers types of assessment, forms, and controls. Methods and job design, responsibility, and recordkeeping are discussed in a section on recruitment and motivation. Techniques and forms of interviewing are examined next. The fifth section is devoted to methods and materials for training volunteer tutors. Guidelines for developing activity summaries and volunteer tutor/student time reports are presented in a section on project documentation. Appendixes include pertinent resource material, vocabulary, and a sample volunteer tutor manual. The tutor manual covers the following topics: poverty, tutor responsibilities, placement procedures, monthly tutoring and attendance calendars, sample individualized learning plans, tax deductions, tax record keeping, characteristics of adult students, the language experience method, sight words, generalizations for extending vocabulary, word patterns, procedures for making speech sounds, speech patterns, duet reading, and pertinent acronyms and service organizations. (MN)