Abstract
Developing reading literacy has been of a great interest not only in the Czech Republic, but also abroad. This has been prompted by the fact that many countries have been alarmed by the findings of international research.
This was also the case of the Czech Republic where developing reading skills has always been of a great importance at schools. It turned out that Czech pupils are good at the mechanics of reading and relatively good at reading comprehension but the problem was to find information in the text and work with this information.
Following this research, a large transformation of teaching reading skills at schools has started. This transformation should aim to reading literacy development rather than focus on the said mechanics of reading skills.