Reading aims - in general - to provide the student with the ability to link the written symbols with the sounds that express them, to read the written text, to understand its meaning, to realize the partial ideas it contains, and to be able to derive the meaning from the context.
The goal of reading is to recognize and understand gradually from the word to the sentence and then the paragraph, then the long text.
There are two types of reading:
1- Intensive reading, which aims to comprehend the read text.
2- Extensive reading, which is taught in the advanced levels.