Well, like everthing else, there's probably 100 different ways to go about it. And the best way depends on how your program needs to use it.

But the biggest thing to remember is that you can only READ 1 byte at a time. So, to read a WORD value must be done in 2 operations.
Code:
READ  1, wordvar.LowByte
READ  2, wordvar.HighByte
If you wanted to read the data into an array of WORDS, you could do this...
Code:
ArraySize   CON 4
WordArray   VAR WORD[ArraySize]
Ptr         VAR BYTE
DataStart   VAR BYTE

DataStart = 1
For Ptr = 0 to (ArraySize * 2) -1
    READ  DataStart + Ptr, WordArray.LowByte(Ptr)
Next Ptr
If you just want to read individual words, then you'll need to know where they are located in EEPROM. You could just count bytes in the data and use the starting address as the location for the READ. But as the program changes, the data might change too, and all those locations you counted fly out the window.

So the easiest way to deal with individual Locations is to give them names in the DATA statement. Then when things change, the pointers to the data change too.
Code:
Calibration  DATA @1, WORD $1DF4
Offset       DATA WORD $FAFD
Something    DATA WORD $AB13
Another      DATA WORD $3FC3

READ  Something, wordvar.LowByte
READ  Something + 1, wordvar.HighByte

; returns $AB13

READ  Calibration, wordvar.LowByte
READ  Calibration + 1, wordvar.HighByte

; returns $1DF4
Well, that's 3 possibles, at least 97 more available.

HTH,