This study presents an investigation of students' reading strategies and reading speed towards learning English. Reading is a priority scale that must be mastered by students at all levels of education. Students will obtain a variety of information that has never been obtained before such as information, grammar, vocabulary and knowledge, therefore in reading situations, it is necessary to be trained in a foreign language for language learners. In this study the focus is on how students can drive their strategies for reading and how students can capitalize on their reading speed preferences. However, there is no previous research that uses reading strategies and students' reading speed in learning English. while this study aims to find out: how students can encourage their strategies to read and can take advantage of their reading speed preference for learning English in students in class VIII SMP Islam Ma'arif 02 Sukun Malang. The design of this research is descriptive qualitative research. The participants in this study were class VIII students of SMP Islam Ma'arif 02 Sukun Malang for the 2022 academic year, totaling 32 students. To find out students can encourage their strategies for reading and take advantage of their reading speed preferences towards English learning activities, questionnaires and interviews were used as instruments to collect data. In this study, reading strategies and reading speed were addressed in the questionnaire responses given to students about English learning activities which included five aspects of indicators including: Students' curiosity about reading strategies and student involvement in reading strategies which are the first and second points. The importance of introducing reading strategies, and the speed of students in reading which are the third and fourth points, the last is the challenge of reading to students. The data analysis process includes data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion and verification. The findings of this study indicate that students' reading strategies and reading speed towards learning English are positive in several aspects such as students feel interested and like it. In addition, students are also very enthusiastic and enjoy reading about learning English, although some students find it difficult due to a lack of vocabulary mastery. But, most of them are also very happy and very like not experiencing difficulties very interesting and easy to understand. In addition, students also stated that participants were neutral towards reading English texts. That is, some students choose in the middle or do not take sides between being interested in and liking the activity of reading English texts. However, some students are interested and like the activity of reading texts with high enthusiasm and self-confidence so that they gain confidence and have a strong influence on reading ability. The reading strategy and students' reading speed towards learning English were carried out well, but the researchers found an unfavorable impact and did not work as expected because some of the students said that reading texts on learning English was difficult and they were confused in reading texts, especially related to vocabulary because it was not appropriate between writing and pronunciation in English learners. This research is expected to be useful for future researchers and can also be a reference for future researchers who are interested in the field of investigative reading strategies and students' reading speed towards learning English. Keywords: Reading Strategies, Reading Speed, Learning English