In the past decades researchers discovered a mutual relationship between a student’s
academic reading skills and academic success. Students as well as teachers, however, take
the learning of this skill for granted. As a result, most students use a surface approach to
reading in reading academic reading materials. This paper will discuss the need of teachers
to teach the proper reading strategies to help students use a deep approach in reading
academic texts. Participants of this research study were taken from first-year college in the
Legal Studies course. The objective of the study is to evaluate students approach to reading
by assessing the quality of their learning outcomes.