In this article, the extent to which elementary school students acquire innovative and information and technology literacy in accordance with the requirements of the times in order to develop 21st century life skills of reading literacy in the six-year PIRLS international tests is studied. The analysis of the 2021 PIRLS research has made comments on the level of reading literacy of the 4th graders of Uzbekistan compared to the rest of the world. The use of discovery and project-based learning approaches that enhance the literacy skills of elementary teachers and students can help address these issues. The main purpose of this study consists of two parts: 1) To determine the reading literacy skills of elementary and future elementary school teachers based on the assessment of minimum competence; 2) by analyzing the effectiveness of the learning model after the introduction of the skill of improving reading literacy of primary school students, the mechanisms of achieving the result are shown. The model allows not only elementary school teachers, students, and elementary school students to effectively design the level of development of reading literacy of students and students, to assess the level of achievement of didactic, international-level methodical goals set in the application of innovative methods.