How do researchers define the relationship between skills and strategies?

According to Regie Routman (2000), strategies are the thinking, problem-solving processes that the learner deliberately initiates, incorporates and applies to construct meaning. At this point,the reading strategies become instinctively incorporated into one’s reading.

According to Affl erbach et al. (2008), when a reading strategy becomes effortless and automatic, the strategy has become a skill. Reading skills operate without the reader’s deliberate control or conscious awareness.