The document defines strategies as systematic plans used to improve learning performance, while skills are acquired abilities to perform tasks well through comprehension and thinking. It discusses that strategies lead to the development of skills, and that strategies are tools used on the journey to gaining skills. The document also outlines types of reading strategies such as generating questions, summarizing, using context clues and making analogies. Finally, it identifies skills in reading such as understanding words, locating specific information, making inferences, and skills like scanning, skimming and paraphrasing.