This paper presents instructional outcomes and student exercises related to the student's acquisition of the reading skills minimally required for comprehension in the SWRL Reading Program. The two outcome areas of the reading comprehension program are the development of word decoding skills and the development of skills necessary for sentence and passage comprehension. Comprehension tasks are divided into the following areas: vocabulary and word recognition, picture conventions, punctuation, syntax, and sentence comprehension (literal, deductive, and inferential). Representative samples of comprehension tasks are given for the stories used in the two outcome areas of the program. (MKM)