Halakhah for Megillah 41:13
זה הכלל כל שיש בו מוסף ואינו יום טוב קורין ארבעה ביום טוב חמשה ביוה"כ ששה בשבת שבעה אין פוחתין מהן אבל מוסיפין עליהן ומפטירין בנביא הפותח והחותם בתורה מברך לפניה ולאחריה:
This is the general rule: on any day which has a musaf and is not a festival four read. On a festival five. On Yom Hakippurim six. On Shabbat seven; they may not decrease [from this number] but they may add [to it], and they conclude with [a haftarah] from the Prophets. The one who begins the Torah reading and the one who concludes the Torah reading blesses before it and after it.
Peninei Halakhah, Women's Prayer
On Mondays and Thursdays three people are called up (“olim”) to the Torah; four on Rosh Ḥodesh and Ḥol Ha-mo’ed; five on Yom Tov; six on Yom Kippur; and seven on Shabbat (Megilla 21a). Initially, it was customary that each person called up to the Torah would read that section, but as time went on, most congregations designated a Torah reader (ba’al koreh) who would read the Torah for everyone. This is so those who do not know how to read the Torah are not insulted and so the reading itself is especially accurate (Peninei Halakha: Collected Essays I 4:6; II p. 227)
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