This paper introduces five alternatives for delivery of continuing teacher education in reading in rural areas. The five programs range from the most modest effort, which involves the face-to-face relationship of the college instructor with rural teachers, to the other extreme, computer-assisted instruction through a mobile van. Two types of administrative structure at Bemidji State College for providing direct contact of the college instructor with rural teachers are described. One involves a federation of area schools which follows the Individually Guided Education (IGE) model. The federation requests specific types of inservice workshops which are delivered in various schools with graduate credit granted through college extension. The other approach, which is a competency-based program, provides undergraduate credits which may be applied toward a college degree for Head Start and day care teachers. The teachers attend workshops throughout the year at locations convenient to them, and they work through learning packages which provide content knowledge. Then at the working site of each student a college instructor checks a mastery of content knowledge as well as application of skills in the classroom. (Author/WR)