This book is a beginner's textbook designed as a classroom and self-study resource for developing general Persian reading skills of both printed and handwritten texts and for learning to write Persian legibly.

The book was organized into 4 parts: The Persian Writing System; Reading Persian; Persian Handwriting; and Reading Persian Texts.

A comprehensive Index at the end of the book is useful for locating specific language subjects, forms, phenomena, and particularly significant vocabulary in the book.