Since students are experiencing difficulties with a repertoire of math skills, teachers  

  should find creative and innovative ways to teach math skills while utilizing reading

    skills.  Current studies show that the effective use of reading strategies can increase

    math scores.  This action research is to explore effective reading strategies to enhance

   the teaching of mathematical skills and to provide research based strategies for increasing math scores.  Students are not fluent readers and lack basic comprehension skills which causes them difficulties in trying to solve problem solving sentences.  This study is to enhance the teaching of effective math strategies, to enhance the teaching of literacy strategies to support math, and to enhance the teaching of reading strategies to increase math scores.