language. In the former case, it is language that it is widely used in society and learners need to acquire English in order to survive in society. Indonesia as a developed country uses English as a foreign language. It is taught in every level from elementary up to university. In the process of teaching and learning English as a foreign language, there are four language skills that should be learnt by the students, namely listening, speaking, reading and writing. It means the students should master in all of four basic skills to make them easily practice and use language. One of the important skills is reading. Reading is an important skill that needs to be developed in learning and teaching activities because people get many knowledge and information by reading. Medina (2012, p. 81) says that for academic purposes, reading is important because it is one of the most freuquently used language skills in everday life to get the information. Reading also has important function for the students in education field. Kyzykeeva (2006, p. 1) states that reading is the most importatnt academic language skill for foreign language students. It means that, students need to be exercised in order to have a good reading skill. Reading implies both a writer and a reader. When reading the students need to figure out what is being read. Nunan (2006, p. 69) defines that reading is a set of skills that involves making sense and deriving meaning from the printed word, In order to read, we must be able to decode (sound out) the printed words and also comprehend what we read. In this research, the writer chose SMP Muhammadiyah 6 Palembang as the population. The reason for choosing SMP Muhammadiyah 6 Palembang