After reviewing the Houghton-Mifflin reading textbooks, supplemental materials, and teachers' guides, the Materials Review Committee of the Kalamazoo Public Schools developed recommendations for achieving appropriate representation of, and balance in, the portrayal of sex roles in the teachers' guides, especially in those portions of the lesson plan in which exercises are to be read or written on the chalkboard by the teacher. The sequence of skills development was not revised in any way. Specific changes to be made in the guides are included in part one; female-oriented poems selected to support the poetry presented in the texts and guides are included in part two; and part three lists fifty books, published in the last five years, that appropriately represent sex roles. Sections are color coded. (HOD)