This handbook is designed to assist in duplicating Project LIVE (Literacy Implements a Vibrant Existence), a family literacy project. Its purpose is to share some ideas and methods of teaching family literacy. It begins with a description of a typical day at the project. Recruitment, interviewing and testing, evaluations, and graduation are discussed. Other project materials include a list of activities to get started, a children's room inventory, an adult classroom inventory, a sample budget, information on staff and volunteers, and rules to discuss with students. The next section deals with the participating children and contains a preschool schedule, a preschool curriculum, information on modeling activities and recall/circle time, and a list of PACT (Parents and Children Together) Time activities. The following section on the adult participants includes an adult schedule, an adult curriculum, information on a teacher's aide vocational program to incorporate job training, and information on setting up a school meal program. Appendixes include samples of report cards, certificates of completion, and a newsletter. (YLB)