Reading is always with a purpose
There are two reasons for reading: A. Instrumental reading: It refers to large amount of reading that helps to achieve an aim. Example reading a road sign in order to find out where to go. Reading instruction of a machine that could be operated. Some kind of readings take place because people have some instrumental purpose in their minds (Hammer J, ) It can also be pleasurable reading when you read history text books or other subjects that interesting us. B. Pleasurable reading: Is mainly a kind of reading for pleasure. For example reading magazines, poetry, and illustrated cartoon or photo stories. Of these five kinds of reading activit i es, the first three, survey reading, skimming, and superficial reading are sometimes grouped together and called extensive reading . The object of such reading is to cover the greatest possible amount of text in the shortest possible time. The remaining tw...