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Reading is an essential interaction between language and the thought in reading. The writer encodes thought as language and the reader decodes language to thought.

The category of purpose for reading:

1. Reading to search for simple information
2. Reading to skim quickly
   
3. Reading to learn from text
   
4. Reading to integrate information
   
5. Reading to write and reading to critique texts
   
6. Reading for general comprehension