understanding skills for History section students  ,  faculty of education, Helwan university through  using evidence based learning . The participants of the study were 60 students. They were divided into two groups (the experimental group  and the control   group ) . The study employed a reading fluency  skills test and  historical understanding skills test . The necessary reading fluency skills  and historical understanding skills were determined through  two checklists approved by a jury of specialists in teaching EFL and History .  During the experiment, the experimental  group received instruction through using evidence based learning  while the control group received regular instruction . The experiment lasted for three  months. The analytical descriptive method and the quasi experimental design were used. The statistical analysis of the obtained data from the pre and post administrations of the two tests revealed the effect of using  evidence based learning  on  developing the requiredreading fluency and historical understanding skills for History section students  ,  faculty of education, Helwan university through using evidence based learning . Using evidence  based  learning had a large effect size on developing the requiredreading fluency and historical understanding skills  for the participants .Based on the obtained  results, it was recommended developing  requiredreading fluency and historical understanding skills through evidence based  learning .In addition, using  evidence based  learning for  improving linguistic performance  was also suggested.