The activities in this manual are drawn from converging research evidence on the effectiveness of critical components to early reading success. These instructional elements include: phonological awareness, fluent reading in a variety of texts, comprehension strategies and vocabulary development, decoding strategies, and word analysis. The activities in the manual are intended to provide the additional practice struggling readers need to develop basic reading strategies. The manual is divided into four sections: Fluency, Phonological Awareness, Instructional Reading, and Word Analysis and Spelling. Two sample lesson plans illustrate how the sections can be organized into 30-35 minute lessons, over the span of a week: the original lesson plan contains all of the elements taught in equal time frames each day is appropriate to use with students who can read at least 15 words per minute (wpm) and are making reading fluency gains of 2 words per minute, per week; an adapted lesson plan allows for students who read less than 15 wpm and allows for increased time to be spent in fluency building and word analysis activities. Each section of the manual contains an overview of the instructional element followed by progress monitoring activities and modifications for English language learners. Appendixes contain guidelines for choosing materials; directions for administering reading passages; an educational game board; a word list; a sequence for word analysis/spelling; a bibliography of decodable books series; a list of vowel patterns containing multiple sound correspondences; directions for making a Word Slide; vowel patterns; a suggested contraction list; and teacher resources. (RS)