This guide assumes a basic familiarity with some principles, techniques, activities, materials, and lesson planning strategies for teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) to adults. The approaches, techniques, ideas, resources, and information in the guide are designed to provide guidance for the teaching of literacy to adult students. After an introductory section, chapters address the following: (1) general goals and specific performance objectives for literacy students; (2) general principles and specific approaches to literacy teaching; (3) literacy teaching methods, including pre-reading and pre-writing activities, phonics and sight word techniques, and reading and writing techniques; (4) curriculum content for three levels of instruction; (5) lesson planning, including a lesson plan form and three sample lesson plans, one at each instructional level; (6) development and selection of instructional materials, including a brief bibliography of instructional and reference materials; (7) assessment of student progress, with a sample literacy assessment test and a discussion of ongoing evaluation; (8) suggestions for teaching mixed literate/illiterate classes; and questions to be asked in teacher self-evaluation. Appended materials include reproducible alphabet and number charts, sample worksheets, and a list of 29 references. (MSE) (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse on Literacy Education)