Intended to help teachers improve students' word recognition skills, this guide covers word recognition, phonics, and dictionary use instruction. Following a preface, the first chapter discusses the place of word recognition in the school and introduces various word recognition skills clusters. Each of the next three chapters is divided into two parts--skills and instructional activities--to cover the following topics: (1) word recognition skills, (2) phonics and related skills, and (3) dictionary use skills. The fifth chapter examines initial teaching levels for word recognition skills, and chapter 6 contains a word recognition inventory. The final chapter provides summary comments on word recognition instruction. (HTH)