This paper was about effective strategies to develop reading skills in 4^th year students at Unidad Educativa Nacional Luis Ezpelosín. This investigation  had four specific objectives: (1) to determine whether the teachers of 4^th year at the “Unidad Educativa Luis Ezpelosín” provide strategies to students for developing reading skills, (2) to describe the reading process within the cognitive and metacognitive theory, (3) to describe the strategies used for teaching reading skills and (4) to determine the effectiveness of the strategies and activities for teaching reading skills by applying a pretest and a posttest to 4^th year students at the “Unidad Educativa Nacional Luis Ezpelosín”. The sample of this experimental research was a group of thirty students of 4^th year. The instruments were a pretest and a posttest in which the results showed that strategies have a positive effect on reading comprehension. It is recommended to imply new strategies to help learners improve their reading understanding of a text.

Migdalia Heredia