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  • One of factors that support the success of teaching and learning is textbook. Textbook serves an important role in the teaching and learning process. Many novice teachers lack of the experience and confidence to prepare their own materials and rely on the textbook to ease their burden. Hence, a lot of teachers put a textbook as their first choice as it is relatively easy to find and commercially provided. Apart from considering as old-style teaching material, through a textbook, teacher feels so much ease when deals with a textbook rather than another material. This current research was aimed to describe the reading activities in Bahasa Inggris textbook for Tenth Grades of Senior High School based on the 2013 Curriculum published by Ministry of Education and Culture, and investigate the relevance of the reading materials in Bahasa Inggris textbook for Tenth Grades of Senior High School based on the 2013 Curriculum published by Ministry of Education and Culture to the 2013 Curriculum English Standard Competence. This research was conducted using qualitative research design. The object of this research is Bahasa Inggris textbook for tenth grade student of senior high school published by Ministry of Education and Culture. Furthermore, the researcher used document analysis as the research instrument. Based on the findings, there are three kinds of reading activities presented. Those are selective reading such as matching task and picture-cued task; interactive reading such as cloze task, short answer scanning task and ordering task; and extensive reading such as skimming and summarizing and responding task. Furthermore, the researcher found the reading materials in all chapters are relevant to the reading material of 2013 Curriculum English Standard Competence. The reading materials which are relevant to the 2013 Curriculum English Standard Competence are able to fulfill the purposes of the topic, language features, and social functions that are intended to be achieved by the students. Therefore, it is suggested that the author to apply more integrated skill in every chapter. It is seen that integrated skill would be effective, less consuming time and much helpful for the teacher in class.