This guide was developed to assist volunteers in tutoring adult readers who read below the ninth-grade level. The following topics are discussed in the guide in either narrative or question-and-answer format: getting started as a tutor, who are the clients, getting acquainted, tutoring procedures, and teaching decoding skills. Procedures for teaching decoding skills include: teaching sight words, word attack, vowel sounds, syllables, context clues, word families, comprehension, and the language experience approach. (ARH)