Abstract: The study aims at identifying the difficulties affecting the students in the area of reading comprehension skill in English language curricula, and finding out the methods to tackle these proplems that tenth grade students face in reading comprehension skill for English language. The descriptive method has been ultilized to fit the purposes of this study. The participants were 90 students in a high school in Vietnam, who were in grade 10. Results of the study has shown that categories affecting the reading comprehension skills of the students are vocabulary, text coverage, background knowledge, sentence structure, grammar and others. The finding indicated that when teachers were aware of the factors that affected students’ reading comprehension competence, they could help their students develop effective reading strategies and ultimately solve those difficulties in reading and improved reading comprehension.