d. Creative Reading
Creative reading involves going beyond the material presented by the author. It requires readers to think as they read, just as critical reading does, and it
also requires them to use their imagination.
7. Teaching Reading Comprehension
Teaching is an activity in which the teacher guides and facilitates learning, gives a chance for the learners to learn, and sets the condition for learning Brown,
2000. Guidance is done by leading the students to do activities in the effort of getting knowledge. The teacher can help the students in gaining the knowledge by
giving facilities such as tasks. By giving these tasks, the teacher lets the students study by themselves. To make the teaching and learning process run well, the
teacher needs to set a good situation for the students to learn. In setting a good condition, the teacher must consider a method or technique that is used as this can
influence the way heshe manages the class. In teaching reading, a teacher must teach the four levels of comprehension
level. First, use a discussion or questioning technique that brings out just what the author said or in other words, in pre-reading; a teacher asks questions related to
the topic before he starts his reading. It is probably more effective to develop a desire to read the article and help them arrive at a literal understanding of the
piece to be read. Then, after the students have completed reading the assigned section, the teacher and students should discuss it.
Based on the theories above, it can be concluded that reading is a complex process to obtain ideas or meaning from a text which is symbolized in written or
printed language. Comprehension in reading means that when someone reads he
must understand what he reads. It can be said that in reading comprehension, there should be an interaction between the author and the reader. The author expresses
his ideas in the form of written language and the reader has to understand the meaning of the text intended by the author.
To be able to achieve the purposes of reading comprehension, one should have some basic reading skills as follows; 1 literal skills getting the central
thought and the main idea, recalling and recognizing of facts and information, finding answers to specific questions; 2 interpretive skills drawing conclusions,
generalizing, deriving meaning from context; 3 critical skill determining the writer’s purpose; and 4 creative skills applying information into daily life.
In relation to the study, those skills can be implemented in two levels of understanding as follows:
a. Reading the lines
Learners are able to understand the literal meaning i.e., responding to the precise meaning of familiar words in their context and inferring the meaning of
unfamiliar words from contextual clues and also visualizing the scenes and events the words conjure up.
b. Reading between the lines
Learners are able to get the writer’s intent and purpose, to interpret clues to character and plot, and to distinguish between fact and fiction.
Based on the definition above, teaching reading comprehension is a guidance that is done by the teacher to enable learners to reach comprehension of
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