Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourselfyou bring to a novel anything you read all your experience of the

world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. Angela Carter, English novelist and short-story writer.

The purpose of this material is to help you interact with the contents of a book and master language art skills. When you read documents such as technical directions, you usually get the facts. But when you read literature, you need to go beyond the facts and read between lines to discover the writers meaning. It is necessary to practice your language art skills in order to become an active and successful writer and reader. The ability to read and understand various kinds of documents is an important skill. For that reason when you read any kind of readings will be essential to interact responding to, analyzing, evaluating and interpreting, increasing your understanding of it. Reading is an important process, like conversation. When you read a document will be fundamental marking up, asking your own questions, taking notes, recording your own ideas, and responding the question of others. This is the way you talk to the text and the more you talk to it, the more you will make connections between your readings and your own life.