This document contains a curriculum guide for teachers and a companion reading guide for adult literacy students reading at the fourth- to sixth-grade level. The curriculum guide contains three chapters: Work, Families, and Housing. The guide takes student interest as a starting point and asks students to stretch comprehension, perception, and reading skills. Each chapter contains some or all of the following: one or more short literature works; "reflecting on our own experience"; "reflecting on other's thoughts/experiences"; worksheets; and examples. The student guide contains readings, examples, and worksheets that help students improve reading and writing skills relating the topics of the three chapters. (NLA)