Encourage readers to transform strategies into skills An important distinction can be made between strategies and skills (Kawai, Oxford, and Iran-Nejad, 2000). Strategies can be defined as conscious actions that learners take to achieve desired goals or objectives, while a skill is a strategy that has become automatic. This characterization underscores the active role that readers play in strategic reading. As learners conscious from learn practice specific reading strategies, the strategies move conscious to unconscious, from to skill