Education shapes the personality of the individual. A schools and colleges social institution takes the responsibility of shaping the pupil. The school is expected to teach the three R’s to the students. i.e. Reading, Writing and Reckoning. When student completes the school course, he or she expected to have mastery over three skills-Reading, Writing, counting and computations. Of these, the present research study is related to reading. It has found that the Highschool students do react fluently, with proper pronunciations but they seem to understand very little what they have read. The present research study was needed to improve student’s habits of silent reading. It was also necessary for developing the habits of extensive reading or skimming, and the intensive reading or scanning. It is evident that skimming and scanning lead to comprehension of the reading material. Thus, the present research study was necessary to improve reading ability of students.