Theme: Reading as the means of teaching and learning foreign languages

object of the present work. 

The purpose of the work is to conduct the overview of  the main teaching 

methods of developing reading skills with second language learners.  

The following objectives have been settled so that to achieve this purpose: 

- to define principles of developing reading skills; 

- to study the approaches to teaching reading skills at any level; 

-  to  find  out  the  skills  required  for  an  elementary  learner  to  became  a  proficient 

reader; 

- to suggest conditions for effective teaching reading; 

- to enumerate the principles behind the teaching reading; 

- to analyze the methods of teaching reading at the elementary level; 

- to reveal the peculiarities of reading comprehension; 

- to identify ways of introducing new vocabulary to learners; 

- to explore approaches to correcting mistakes.