Clarifying Differences Between Reading Skills and Reading ...

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The Reading Teacher,61(5), pp. 364 373 2008 International Reading : 0034-0561 print / 1936-2714 onlineHelping children learn to read is a deeply re-warding experience for parents and teacherswho take pride as their children acquire effec-tive Reading Skills and Reading strategies. The termsskillsand strategiesare part of the vocabulary used byteachers to describe what they teach and what chil-dren learn. Yet, despite frequent use in professionaldiscourse, the terms are used skillsand strategiesare used as synonyms,and sometimes they are used to describe complemen-tary relations ( , strategies support Skills ) or a no-tion of developmental progressions ( , first thephonics Skills then the comprehension strategies).

information processing. Thus, even within psycholo-gy, the terms skills and strategies had different theo-retical and historical origins. In the field of reading, the term skills has a longer history of popular use than strategies, and the use was evident in published curricula and reading education in addition to research documents. The first ...

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