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the same reading purpose varies with the difficulty of selection and the skill of the reader different authorities suggest a variety of purpose of reading. We
believe that most of these can be organized into five categories: 1. Finding the main idea, 2. Finding supporting detail, 3.
Grasping the author’s plan of organization, 4. Following a sequence of even or thought, 5. Critically
appraising the author’s work.
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Meanwhile, Alton L Raygon, he said that :”...The purpose of this reading is to catch all information about what the author tries to say in a printed materials
to comprehension, ascension, also inte rpretation”.
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According to Henry Guntur Tarigan in his book, “The main purpose of
reading is find and get information in content, understand in the text and get information by skimming,
scanning, and comprehension”.
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From the definition above, it shows that the purpose of the reading is not only to understand the reading passage, but also to find out the ideas written by
the author. There are some reading ability to development of various reading skills
such as : kinds of reading and types of reading skill.
3. Kinds of Reading
The kinds of reading can be divided into two kinds. There are silent reading and oral reading reading aloud.
a. Silent reading
Reading is an active process, not a passive process. Silent reading suggest the student to be active. In this technique the students do not care recognize the
symbol, pronounciation, intonation and rhythm, because the main purpose of this reading to get information from the texts efficiently, rapidly. In the other words,
the students just focused on analyzing and understanding the text they read.
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Harris and Smith, Reading Instruction Through Diagnostic Teaching, New York : Notl Riachart, Inc, 1972, p. 268
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Alton L Raygon, Teaching Reading in Elementary School, Columbus : Bell and Howell, Taken from: httpwww. Usergate.
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Henry Guntur Tarigan, Reading as Language Skill, Bandung : Angkasa Tarsito, 1986 , p.9
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The silent reading can be developed in other valuable purposes, such as: 1. Study Reading
Study reading is the type of reading that is very important mostly for the students. It is stated by Lyla L Miller in his book as follows : “study reading is a
type in which the reader must get a maximum understanding of a main ideas and their relationship. This is the type the student must apply to his contacts, legal
papers, technical manual instruction and similar materials which must read and understand now and also remember for future use.
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2. Idea Reading This type is intended to get key ideas which are essential to most reading.
The basic meanings of most articles should be considered into a few paragraph.
b.Oral Reading reading aloud
Reading is not only on the pronouncing or loudly reading but also it is the understanding taken into consideration. As said by Nuttal, “it is unlikely that you
were interested in the pronunciation of that you read expect in a tiny minority of cases, and it is even likely that you were inerested in the grammatical structures
used, you read because you wanted to get something from writing : facts, ideas, enjoyment, even feelings or family comunity from letter. What ever it was, you
wanted to get the massage that the writer loud expressed ”.
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4. The types of Reading Skill
