Tax instructions suffer from vocabulary and concept loads, but make a useful teaching tool. (Author)

Describes an investigation that showed that abbreviations in classified ads are difficult to comprehend and suggests that instruction be given in understanding abbreviations as a real life reading skill. (MKM)

Describes how to construct reading comprehension test questions that are unanswerable without careful reading of an accompanying passage and provides examples of the principles explained. (RB)

Finds that many commercial reading comprehension test items are not passage dependent. (RB)

Presents a test on abbreviations used in classified employment advertisements which may be used in survival reading skills instruction. (MKM)

Students know more than they think they know, so guessing gives better scores even when there's a penalty for errors. (JM)