What Are Reading Skills?

By Staff WriterLast Updated March 27, 2020

Reading skills include skills acquired through reading, such as comprehension, fluency and independence. Overall, these skills give students the ability to turn words on a page into a clear meaning.

Persons with difficulties, such as dyslexia and attention deficit disorder, have a harder time developing reading skills. These disorders can usually be indicated by reading problems, such as missing certain milestones. The presence of a disorder that inhibits reading skills is not indicative of someone of a lower intelligence. it merely means that the child will need special help in order to develop reading comprehension. Listening comprehension and phonetic techniques may be used.