The guide, entirely in French, is intended as a resource for regular elementary and early secondary school classroom teachers of reading to both native speakers of French and French immersion students in Canada. An introductory chapter describes the guide's organization, gives background information on its approach to reading instruction, links between the guide and Alberta's provincial curriculum, and discusses characteristics of instruction for francophone and second-language learners. The second chapter outlines in greater detail a group of reading instruction strategies (word identification and recognition, word group identification, identification of sentence links, inference, summarizing, using the text structure, pre-reading, and planning and managing reading). Chapter 3 presents a range of techniques, formal and informal, for evaluating reading. The fourth chapter contains sample descriptive profiles of six students, three francophone and three French immersion students. Substantial appended materials include two sets of materials, one for francophone instruction and one for immersion instruction, and a glossary. The materials include 27 reading texts, in both complete and cloze versions, a correction guide and rating scale, and comprehension questions. (MSE)