Reading is a part of study process
I am a reading teacher, and early reading is a way to acquire language to communicate.
Are there skills necessary to make one a good reader?
Yes.  For good readers, however, the skills seem easy as they are learned at such a young age.
So what are the requisite skills then if they are learned from a young age?
Learning to read
Learning to read is the acquisition and practice of the skills necessary to understand the meaning behind printed words. For a fairly good reader, the skill of reading often feels simple, effortless, and automatic; however, the process of learning to read is complex and builds on cognitive, linguistic, and social skills developed from a very early age.
Writing systems.
Usually, in order to understand a text, it is necessary to understand the spoken language associated with that text. In this way
as speakers of oral languages most frequently achieve spoken fluency before they learn to read and write, the most successful profoundly deaf readers first learn to communicate in a sign language. Research suggests that there is a mapping process, in which features from the sign language are accessed as a basis for the written language, Similar to the way hearing unimodal bilinguals access their primary language when communicating in their second language. Profoundly deaf ASL signers show that fluency in ASL is the best predictor of high reading skills in predicting proficiency in written English