SUMMARY Research work: The pecularities of the verbal intellect and reading skills for junior school age pupils. The subject of research: The pecularities of verbal intellect and reading skills for junior school age pupils. Research hypothesis: a presumable formation between the verbal intellect and reading skills. Research purpose: To ascertain the influence of the verbal intellect over the formation of reading skills on junior school age students. 136 students: 80 girls and 56 boys have particapated in the research from Kėdainiai region.. That is 18,3% of fourth forms schoolchildren in the research period. The point and nature of common intellect abilities have been underprobed, at that and the concept of intellect itself is not strictly determined in psychology. In the case of every intellect impact sign of learning strides, it is believable that pupils‘ reading skills will be dependable on the educating intellect. Research work has been analyzed from the two points of view: how pupils‘ mental evolution, intellect and reading process are beeing proceeded during the reclamation of reading skills. Conclusions: the static meaningful link has been stated between the verbal intellect and reading skills. This correlation permits to motivate the hypothesis: there is a probabale link between the formation of the verbal intellect and reading skills.