In Pakistan students find reading of the original text of novels a boring activity. This books deals with the novel The Old Man and the Sea as a case study to suggest some strategies that a teacher of English can adopt to develop reading skills. It suggests activities for developing students personal engagement with the text by determining the purpose of reading, activating prior schema, and understanding foreign culture. Secondly, it proposes activities for helping students to understand the language structure used in a text by teaching word level structures, using conjunctions to teach...