Following a conference on reading and study skill development in secondary schools, the seven independent schools involved were asked to describe how they develop the skills needed by their students. The resulting report includes a discussion of the problems involved in teaching study skills and offers descriptions of the following: a small school's individualized basic skills program; the rationale and objectives, by grade, of a junior high reading and study skills program; methods for integrating language arts into the curriculum in grades 6 through 12; a language skills program; a reading laboratory; a tutoring program; and a one-room schoolhouse study skills program. A bibliography is included. (MAI)