Part of an adult basic education series utilizing Southwestern American Indian cultural material, this level III (fifth grade equivalent, 4.5-6.0 readability) teacher's guide contains concise explanations of the various skills presented, suggested teaching strategies, answers to workbook exercises, and a list of available supplementary commercial materials with specific pages cited. Unit I focuses on parts of speech: singular and plural nouns; possessive and collective nouns; nouns used as subjects and objects; pronouns used as nouns and direct objects; demonstrative and possessive pronouns; helping and linking verbs; descriptive, possessive, and demonstrative adjectives; adverbs; prepositional words and phrases; time words; and conjunctions. Unit II teaches sentence structure. Unit III covers paragraph development. Unit IV presents aspects of punctuation: commas in dates, places, and series; quotation marks; and underlining. Unit V teaches capitalization. Unit VI offers pointers on writing personal notes and personal information. Unit VII stresses spelling of days, months, numbers, and abbreviations. (NEC)