"instructed how to" is a correct and usable construction in written English.
You can use it when you need to express that instructions or guidance has been given about how to do something. Example: The new employee was instructed how to use the cash register.
The participants in the experimental group were instructed how to use brainstorming strategies before reading passages.
Intervention: Subjects were instructed how to perform the Dying Bug and the Quadruped exercises.
One recent online manual instructed how to extract explosive materials from missiles and land mines.
I've been instructed how to disperse plutonium into the ventilation system of an office building.
He also referred to backing from leftist political groups and said locals had been instructed how to make firebombs.
They objected to the resolution, but the deputies had been instructed how to vote and the resolution was apssed unanimously.
A possible solution to the problem of generalization is to apply statistical methods that can generate useful robot responses in situations for which the robot has not been specifically instructed how to respond.
The person receiving the message is instructed how to set up his or her own account (there is no fee for this, Mr. Barhydt says).
And as part of a grand pre-Olympic effort to build enthusiasm and teach proper fan etiquette, they were instructed how to cheer.
Icarus is instructed how to fly with white dove's wings by Daedalus; a chorus of eight Cretan athletes provides a solid counterpoint to his strivings.
It can, for instance, navigate its way through a map of the London underground without being explicitly instructed how to do so.
