Based on a review of the research literature, this paper gives a rationale and guidelines for a sixth-grade literature-enriched reading program. The first part looks at social trends and alternative points of view with respect to the problem of those social trends. The second section presents the rationale and the literature review. The third section offers several procedures for, and an analysis of, a literature-based reading program. The paper includes seven behavioral objectives and two surveys to be filled out by the students before and after participation in the program. The paper concludes with a "recipe for reading" with eight elements: sensory, perceptual, sequential, experiential, associational, learning, thinking, and affective. Thirty-nine references are attached. (MG)