The purpose of this guide is to acquaint teachers with Avon's Nongraded Program and to make available to them a comprehensive set of guidelines relative to the concept of nongradedness and its subsequent implementation. The contents include a listing of the national sequence of change in elementary school organization, a discussion of the local processes of change in an elementary school organization, a comparison of graded and nongraded structures, questions and answers on Avon's nongraded program, a discussion of the general structure and implementation of reading in Avon's nongraded program, a physical readiness checklist, a social readiness checklist, informal reading inventories for 23 levels, suggestions for conducting parent-teacher conferences, suggestions for reporting to parents, examples of progress reports for kindergarten children, progress reports for primary children, examples of reporting intermediate students' progress, an example of a letter to be used for transfer of students to other school districts, a summary, and a glossary of reading terms. (WR)