A guide for teachers of nonliterate and semiliterate secondary school students with limited English proficiency (LEP) focuses on techniques for integrating language arts and social studies instruction. It gives basic information for developing learning activities for students with limited educational experience. This includes suggested objectives and strategies for communicating with parents, planning field trips, teaching reading readiness, managing the classroom, and preparing social studies activities. The guide's content was drawn from a high-intensity language program developed for use in Arlington Public Schools (Virginia). The language arts curriculum on which the suggestions are based was developed from topics selected by special needs teachers as essential in content and skill development for beginning literacy LEP students. The reading series used is The Bank Street Readers. The social studies curriculum focuses on concept and thinking-skills development and acquisition of basic social studies vocabulary. (MSE)