The purposes of this handbook, designed as part of the Right to Read Program in Hampton, Virginia, were to provide the middle grade teacher with both a progressive reading skills objectives list with a suggested management system for using these skills in classroom reading instruction and a list of activities which can be used in teacher-directed or individual instructional settings (e.g., skill centers, learning centers, or interest centers). The major portion of the handbook contains suggested activities keyed to the progressive skills listed sequentially as social interaction, visual/motor control, listening to stories, oral response to stimuli, auditory discrimination, response to pupil dictated accounts, word analysis, writing, critical thinking, free reading, inspectional reading, analytical reading, and syntopical reading. (JM)