Determining Initial Base Score
Most reading educators believe that reading is either a process or group of processes employed by an individual to discover what an author say
from the text as efficiently as possible.
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They would agree that many thinking processes intertwine in order to get the message. This definition explains a
number of processes used by an individual in order to gain the message that the author wishes to say. It can be said that reader needs skills and strategies to
read the texts to comprehend the messages. Comprehension then becomes the main purpose of the reading process.
In another view, reading is interpretation and understanding.
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The reader interacts with, and tries to reconstruct, what a writer wishes to
communicate. If the reader’s anticipations and predictions are pretty much in line with what a writer says, and how it is presented, comprehension is likely
to be easy and rapid. If there is a great distance between the backgrounds of the reader and a writer, comprehension is likely to be slow and poor.
Based on the opinions given by the experts, the writer can conclude that reading is a kind of activities to understand a written language. It is not
only how to get the meaning of each words or sentences but also the important one is how the reader can get and conclude the ideas of the writer’s writing. It
requires a high level of effort and concentration, also involves many complex skills that have to come together in order for the reader to be a successful
reader.