How to stimulate pupils' interest in extracurricular reading.

Yao Yiqun Suhomlinski of Suzhou Pingjiang Experimental School said: "In terms of image, extracurricular reading is not only a sail of a thinking ship, but also a wind that sails forward; Without reading, there is neither sail nor wind. " The master compares extracurricular reading to the sail of a learning boat, which shows the importance of extracurricular reading. The Chinese Curriculum Standard also clearly points out the importance of extracurricular reading: "Cultivate students' extensive reading interest, expand reading scope and increase reading volume ..." It also stipulates the amount of extracurricular reading: "The amount of extracurricular reading in nine years should be more than 4 million words. "Indeed, extracurricular reading can not only broaden students' knowledge and improve their reading analysis ability, but also develop students' thinking, cultivate students' sentiment and improve their quality. Therefore, teachers should create all conditions to guide students to read more, develop good reading habits and improve their Chinese ability through extracurricular reading. Modern psychological research shows that interest is the most direct, active and realistic factor affecting learning activities. Confucius, a great educator in ancient China, said, "Knowing is not as good as being kind, and being kind is not as good as being happy." It can be seen that interest is the best teacher and the motivation for people to engage in any activity. Similarly, only when students are interested in reading can they have a positive demand for extracurricular reading from the bottom of their hearts. Therefore, as Chinese teachers, we should take stimulating students' interest in reading as an important link in Chinese teaching. So, how to cultivate students' interest in extracurricular reading and ignite students' reading fire? First, create a reading atmosphere and enhance reading interest. As we all know, a good environment is the premise of promoting students' all-round development and can play the role of "moistening things quietly". Teachers should make full use of all available conditions to create a good reading environment for students. Reading environment includes hard environment and soft environment. The so-called hard environment is to create good external reading conditions, such as: providing a book reading room, storing enough books to read, and configuring a desk with sufficient capacity; Slogans about reading are posted on the walls of the classroom. These slogans can be seen everywhere in Chinese textbooks, such as "study hard, study hard", "endless mountains and waters, endless seas and oceans", "endless reading, writing like a god" and so on. A large number of slogans are full of students' vision, and often seeing or reading them will arouse students' great interest in reading. So what is a soft environment? Soft environment is a beautiful emotional atmosphere established by teachers in reading communication with students. For example, teachers' recognition and affirmation of students' reading achievements. In my years of teaching work, I have always spared no effort to praise students with rich extracurricular knowledge. "Little book fan", "little doctor", "idiom king" and "dictionary pass" have become my nicknames for these students. Secondly, as teachers, we should try our best to make students easy to read. The so-called easy reading is to let students read without too much demand and pressure. We should let students engage in reading activities easily and let them fully enjoy the beauty of reading, rather than reading for the sake of reading. Interest in reading should be cultivated from the lower grades. Children in lower grades are less literate and afraid of reading. If the teacher puts forward too many reading requirements, he will flinch from reading. Children's age is characterized by better memory than comprehension. If this feature is made clear, teachers should lower the requirements of understanding and not seek one step at a time. Accumulation is an important way to learn Chinese well. The ancients put it well: "Read 300 Tang poems, even if you can't write one" and "Read thousands of books and write like a god". These reading experiences also tell us the importance of accumulation. Children's memory is in its heyday, and teachers should make great efforts to guide students to read extensively and accumulate more. As long as students are willing to study, no matter how big or small their gains are, teachers should give them strong praise. Second, skillfully set reading suspense to stimulate reading interest. Nowadays, primary school students like to listen to interesting stories, watch cartoons and meet mythical figures. You can choose an educational and interesting story that is suitable for your child's age and psychology. When students listen with relish, they can guide themselves to read extracurricular books by asking questions. Does a snail have teeth? How many? When students are surprised to learn from the story that the little snail has more than 10,000 teeth, the teacher will "strike while the iron is hot" and recommend reading materials, and students will consciously look for answers from extracurricular books. In this way, students' reading desire is induced through fairy tales and myths that students like to hear, and students are induced to passively read more books they want to read, step by step into the temple of books and taste the showers of knowledge. Third, recommend excellent reading materials, strengthen reading interest 1, which is beneficial to physical and mental development. What we call "beneficial to physical and mental development" mainly refers to the cultivation of health, the development of intelligence and the development of language. Books that meet these educational requirements are first of all books that praise human diligence, kindness, firmness, enterprising and lofty spirit. Under this premise, it is appropriate to recommend fairy tales to junior students, battle stories and sci-fi works to middle school students, great men's stories, Chinese and foreign masterpieces and geography history books to senior students. This enables students of different grades to read extracurricular books that are most suitable for their own needs and beneficial to their healthy development. 2. Read materials that are conducive to consolidating the classroom teaching effect. Nowadays, students are faced with a wide background of extracurricular reading and rich and colorful contents. When students roam freely in the world of extracurricular reading, it is necessary for us to find the combination of classroom teaching and extracurricular reading. (1) Read the stories of the characters in the text. There are many characters written in primary school texts, including many celebrities. For example, learning "Tian Ji Horse Racing" can guide students to read the story of Sun Bin; After studying in Zhan Tianyou, I recommend students to read stories about Zhan Tianyou, such as Zhan Tianyou, a great railway engineer, Zhan Tianyou as a teenager, Zhan Tianyou when studying abroad, and Zhan Tianyou after the opening of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway. Reading the stories of these famous people not only helps to understand the content of the text, but also edifies students' thoughts. (2) Reading extra-curricular books related to text knowledge. For example, after learning "The Sun", let students read the fairy tale "Houyi shoots the sun"; After learning the texts such as Underwater World and Rich Xisha Islands, guide students to read popular science articles about marine animals, plants and minerals. Another example is teaching "Battle of Red Cliffs". Students talk about this battle example of winning more with less, but they still want more. I lost no time in guiding: such wonderful stories abound in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and asked students to try to read The Romance of the Three Kingdoms after class, and everyone prepared a story about the Three Kingdoms to communicate in the activity class, which immediately set off a "Three Kingdoms fever" in the class. (3) Reading other works by the same author. If you have studied such texts as Cats and Flowers, you can recommend other works of Lao She to students. When teaching ancient poetry, introduce the author's other works to students to read. Fourth, carry out various activities to consolidate reading interest. Pupils are lively and active, have a strong desire for expression and competitiveness, and like to participate in various performances and competitions to show their talents. Therefore, colorful reading activities can not only adjust the learning atmosphere of the class and enrich students' study life, but also enable students to enjoy the fruits of reading, thus stimulating students' interest in reading. For example, create a reading competition table, a symposium, a poetry meeting, a story meeting, an exhibition of famous sayings, and do reading newspaper clippings. In my class, there is a reading competition table every semester. Every time a student reads a good book, I will reward him or her with a small red flower, save enough red flowers, and get a beloved small gift from me, sometimes an interesting book and sometimes various school supplies, so students in my class are always interested in reading extracurricular books. I also hold a reading achievement exchange meeting at the end of each semester. At this time, some children show all the extracurricular books they have read in a semester, some show their reading notes, some tell the most wonderful stories they have read, and some recommend their favorite books to everyone ... Their faces are filled with the joy of success. Extracurricular knowledge as magical as the blue sky attracts children, and extracurricular knowledge as profound as the ocean cultivates children. "The sea is wide and the fish jumps, and the sky is high and birds fly." I believe that as long as every Chinese teacher tries his best to stimulate students' interest in reading, extracurricular reading will surely produce the most beautiful flowers.