The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the collaborative strategic reading on
reading fluency and comprehension of low-achieving students. For this purpose, 28 low-achieving
students in 5th and 6th grade participated in this study. The study was conducted for 7 weeks,
using pretest-posttest control group design. The result indicated that Collaborative Strategic Reading
had a positive impact on participants' reading fluency and comprehension. Of the three levels of
reading comprehension, there was a significant difference between the experimental and the control
group in interpretive comprehension. In literal and applied comprehension, however, no significant
differences were found. In the future research, it is necessary to examine the developments of reading
ability in detail according to each period of intervention divided into more segments.