Understanding some one text types is about experiences to read. You will not able to understand what the writer means if you’re not usually reading and I mean read everything.
The reading culture must be create from the beginning, like my son. I always try to make him learn something new by reading anything. It is not easy at the first time and I admitted that in Indonesia reading culture still very low. They like watching television or hearing radio for grabbing the information. Internet, blog ? It is still not too familiar for some peoples. That’s why I try to change from my self and my family to learn reading anything and about any kind of information. For example this website http://understandingtext.blogspot.com, I like the articles and motivating the reader to understand the kind of text.
Want to write ? Yes, we must learn to read first and then you can write something good and better late than never try to do to read. And also if you want to be a good writer, you will need a lot of time to read especially your topic going to write, because if not you will get stuck at the middle of your text.