The instructional guide for the Cutting Edge workplace literacy program, a cooperative project of El Paso Community College (Texas) and Levi Strauss and Company, is an expanded version of one appendix the project handbook. It describes and provides an instructional model for the three-part, job-specific, video-based program of English as a Second Language (ESL) designed for garment industry workers of limited English proficiency. It begins with an overview of the preparation of and rationale for the curriculum, then outlines a specific instructional model in five stages: initial language input; language input with reading; learning activity; language experience; and application activity. Notes on classroom implementation are then provided, including suggestions concerning input and output, language and content, treatment of grammar, comprehension and comprehensibility, interlanguage and error correction, and use of translation. Specific implementation procedures are then suggested. A lesson plan for each of the three levels, including reading selection, is appended. (MSE) (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse on Literacy Education)