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Not Available Most existing literacy courseware is inappropriate for adults' varied instructional needs. Needed is a tool that enables literacy practitioners to rapidly author adaptive, instructionally effective, interactive courseware to meet their students' needs, and make it available over the Internet. This research proposes development of the Smart Automated Reading Assistant (SARA), a knowledge-based authoring tool for literacy instruction. SARA takes text as input, and generates reading instruction as output. The input text may be typed in, scanned in, or obtained electronically (e.g.. via the Internet). An instructor then creates a customized lexicon for the text by editing available word information from SARA's master lexicons. adding, new word information, and adding multimedia. The output instruction, which is automatically generated from the text and customized lexicon, consists of reading assistance, enhanced lookup of terms, and adaptive vocabulary practice. This Phase I research asks: 1) Does SARA support easy entry and configuration of materials to meet student needs? 2) Do SARA's lexicons adequately support its instructional functions? and 3) Can adult learners with an grade or lower RGL use and learn from SARA? Instructional development and delivery prototypes will be created and formative evaluations will be conducted with representative instructor and student users.