摘要：The current study probes into the students’ reading difficulties at elementary level. Theobjectives of the study were, to diagnose reading difficulties of the students at elementarylevel, to identify the role of vocabulary in the reading skill, the importance of grammar inreading skill, the importance of speed in reading skill and the role of spelling andpronunciation in reading skill. All government elementary schools class 8th students (4214) inDistrict Mardan were selected as population of the study, out of which 1054 students wereselected through simple random sampling techniques for the collection of data. Self-madereading test and check list were applied for the collection of data. The collected data wascategorical and was analyzed through Frequency, Percent, Valid Percent and CumulativePercent. It was found that majority of the students who could not read well were weak invocabulary, spelling, pronunciation, grammar and speed reading. Moreover, the studysuggested that if teachers and stakeholders focus on students’ vocabulary, spelling, grammar,pronunciation and reading speed then they can easily solve the problem of difficulties inreading skill.
