This paper analyzes various approaches to teaching reading and writing competencies to high school learners, focusing on their relevance in Uzbekistan. It provides a worldwide perspective on literacy teaching strategies and assesses their appropriateness for Uzbekistan, taking into account the phonetic and agglutinative characteristics of the Uzbek language. Utilizing comparative charts, research-based suggestions, and references in the Vancouver format, the article presents educators with actionable strategies to improve literacy abilities, tackling obstacles such as limited resources and multilingualism in Uzbek classrooms.

reading skills, writing skills, high school education, Uzbekistan, Uzbek language, SQ3R method, shared reading, skimming and scanning, process writing, bilingual instruction

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