Abstract:
The main objective of this study was to assess reading strategies employed by the sample
school classroom teachers. The study was conducted at Abeto Negase Kiristos Werede Kal
secondary school of Meniz Mama District at Molale town.) These teachers were selected by
using comprehensive sampling technique of non-probability because these all teachers were
convenient to this study. To collect the necessary information from the participants, three data
collection instruments such as questionnaire, classroom observation, and interview were used
and descriptive survey research design was also applied. The findings showed that very limited
reading strategies were employed by the teachers. As teachers attempted to explain many
problems were challenged them regarding to the implementation of these reading strategies
among these problems giving less attention for the reading lesson and using traditional way of
teaching strategies were the first and foremost problems. Due to this fact to teach reading in
this sample school, most of the time teachers in their actual classroom were using only very
limited reading strategies such as reading aloud from the traditional reading strategies and
summary and taking main idea of the text from the communicative reading strategies. This
made students not to get more chances to use variety of reading strategies in their reading
tasks. However, to improve students’ reading comprehension skill teachers should be
committed to use the communicative language teaching strategies
