2.2.4 Reading Comprehension In this research, reading comprehension is related to students' ability to understand a read text. Crawley and Merrit (2000:40) state that the purpose of reading is to communicate between the author and the author's audience. To realize that the reader must understand the text to get all the information transferred by the authors. To understand the whole text, the reader should understand the parts of reading comprehension, such as word comprehension, sentence comprehension, paragraph comprehension, and text comprehension. A text usually contains more than one paragraph. For example: Tea TimeAll over the world, people drink tea. But tea doesn't mean the same thing to everyone. In different countries, people have very different ideas about drinking tea. In China, for example, tea is always served when people gather. The Chinese drink it at any time of the day, at home or in a teahouse. They prefer plain tea, without anything else. In the United States, people drink tea primarily for breakfast or after meals. Americans usually drink tea in teapots. In summer, many Americans usually drink iced tea, called iced tea. (Look Ahead for Senior High School Grade X 2007:67) The above text tells the reader about the way of drinking tea in the villages. It means that every country has its own way of doing something. To know the information of the above text, the reader should understand from the smallest units such as word, sentence, paragraph and the whole text.2.3 Types of reading Text taught in high schoolsBased on the 2006 institutional level curriculum (KTSP 2006), there are some types of texts that must be learned for high school students, namely; tell the text, the narrative text...... half of the sheet ...... is the example of the text of the procedure: Objective The hole Game materials Two players, one ball per person, a hole in the ground, a line (distance) to start from steps 1. You need to double (click the marbles together)2. You need to check that the marbles are in good condition and are worth almost the same value.3. Dig a hole in the ground and draw a line, a fair distance from the hole4. The first player carefully throws his marble towards the hole.5. Then the second player tries to throw his ball closer to the hole than his opponent.6. The player whose ball is closest to the hole attempts to throw his ball into the hole. If successful, this player tries to throw his opponent's ball into the hole. The person who throws the last marble into the hole wins and gets to keep both marbles. (Taken from Look Ahead for year X high school students:84)