The guide is designed to help administrators, program directors, counselors, teachers, and other school personnel in providing instructional services for limited-English-proficient (LEP) students. The seven sections address these topics: identification and assessment for instructional and language proficiency levels; assessing for exceptionalities; program models (English as a Second Language, bilingual programs, sheltered instruction, immersion); funding sources (federal, state, local); instructional strategies and grading; teacher cultural awareness; and available materials and resource organizations. Appended materials include federal requirements, definitions, sample home language surveys, a list of languages currently in North Carolina, a report on a 1994-95 statewide home language survey, definitions of language proficiency levels and descriptors, selected oral proficiency tests in English and some native languages, selected achievement tests in some languages, selected tests for assessing some disorders, types of structured informal assessments, and the text of Title VII of the Elementary Secondary Education Act. (MSE)