Reading as a way of teaching English

English is one of the most widely spoken languages in almost all countries of the world. The evergrowing need for fluency in English throughout the world has led linguists and teachers to prioritize the search for more effective ways of teaching language skills, one of which is reading. Owning this type of communicative activity, a person understands everything he reads, and responds adequately to what he has read, converting his thoughts in response. Reading any text in a foreign language and answering questions about the text or expressing their opinion about the read, the student learns the skills of monologue speech. The speech feature of reading as a type of communicative activity plays a special role at various stages of mastering the English language, which is why every modern teacher or English teacher necessarily includes reading tasks in his lesson. In this article, the author considers the importance of reading in the study and teaching of English or any other foreign language, presents approaches to teaching reading that can be used in reading and parsing any text, introduces various strategies in teaching reading, and describes common ways of teaching reading to students in the classroom.