Reading is a receptive skill that “must be taught in an integrated way: you cannot separate listening or reading from speaking, writing and communication”.
In other words, in the real world, receptive skills (listening and reading), are always associated with the productive ones (speaking or writing) For example, when we listen to someone saying something to us, we have to answer back; so, we have to speak; or when we read someone`s message on the phone, or on the internet (e-mail) and we have to write him/her back.
The Correlation between Reading and Other Language Skills: Writing, Speaking and Listening