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How to Improve Students' English Reading Literacy

"English Curriculum Standards" clearly points out: "English curriculum requires rational use and active development of curriculum resources to provide students with healthy content and rich curriculum resources that are close to reality, life and the times." Introducing English extended reading into the classroom as a new English teaching method will enrich teaching resources, broaden the channels for learning and using English, and build a bridge between students' learning reality and life reality, thus realizing the optimization of English teaching. Through the teaching practice of expanding reading, I have some knowledge and experience about the specific application of expanding reading in English teaching.

First of all, the questions raised

Reading is an important way for people to obtain information and an important form of social and cultural communication. Therefore, improving middle school students' reading comprehension ability is the main goal and requirement of middle school English teaching. English reading comprehension is the main form of testing and testing students' English ability. The number of reading comprehension questions is increasing year by year, the knowledge is broadened year by year, and the difficulty is increasing year by year. This fully shows that English education has changed the original practice of focusing only on grammar and language knowledge and ignoring the cultivation of students' practical application ability, which is contrary to the law of language teaching. This is a great progress in English teaching. However, in actual teaching, students' reading ability has not really improved.

Second, expand the value of reading.

In my teaching, I found that an important factor that restricts the improvement of middle school students' reading ability is: the amount of textbook reading materials is small, and the extracurricular reading materials are outdated. As a basic tool for middle school students to learn English, textbooks are the basic carrier for students to learn English. By studying textbooks, students can learn some English language phenomena and knowledge. However, the content is poor and lacks authenticity, so it is difficult to really arouse students' interest. Only when language is used can it truly experience its value, and only at this time can students have the most sense of accomplishment and be willing to obtain interesting and valuable information through reading. Expanding reading takes students' favorite way as the carrier, conforms to the rhythm of modern life, highlights the topic of reading and builds a bridge between learning truth and life truth.

Third, expand reading methods.

The new curriculum teaching concept emphasizes the authenticity of teaching materials and the cultivation of students' self-study ability and creativity. Therefore, in addition to fully and effectively using teaching materials and enriching reading materials, it is very important to choose rich reading channels.

In fact, to expand children's reading, we might as well do the following:

1. Choose an English book that children are interested in and you can understand the first few pages without looking it up in the dictionary. At the beginning, you can choose some simple or abbreviated books and audiobooks, preferably books with illustrations. With the improvement of your own level, you can choose some abbreviated original works, such as bookworm series books published by FLTRP.

2. Subscribe to an English newspaper, starting with an English weekly newspaper, an English tutorial newspaper and a bilingual newspaper. These newspapers are divided into sections, both primary and secondary schools. We can subscribe to them according to the level of children. Newspapers have a large vocabulary, involving all aspects, which is very helpful for expanding vocabulary and obtaining information.

3. Choose an English tutorial book, in which English exercises are similar to or slightly more difficult than the textbooks you have studied. The characteristics of this kind of books are that the articles in the books are short, interesting and readable, and there are comprehension exercises behind the articles. Let the children do these exercises after reading the articles to check whether they understand and how much they understand.

4. Pay attention to English in life. For example, English instructions on the packaging of goods, English advertisements on TV or in the street, we might as well remind children to pay attention to all the words and phrases they see. If you are unfamiliar, you can write it down first, and then look it up in the dictionary to understand the memory. This is also a way to accumulate vocabulary and apply what you have learned. In fact, English has penetrated into every corner of our lives. As long as we have this awareness of attaching importance to English around us and gradually form habits, it is not difficult to learn English.

Fourth, how to improve students' reading interest.

Learning to read and be diligent in accumulation is the only way to lay a good foundation for language and spirit. But in reading, especially at the beginning, children will certainly encounter difficulties such as not knowing words and not understanding sentences. So, how can we stimulate children's interest in reading and keep reading?

1. Make handwritten newspaper. According to the content of the textbook, let the children find materials and make a handwritten newspaper, which can be done independently or jointly by family members. In addition, children can organize a competition with their classmates, and let teachers be judges, such as making a tabloid about Christmas and Mid-Autumn Festival. In the process of making handwritten newspapers, children are very busy looking for materials and designs, looking at books they have read or looking for relevant information from the Internet, and their enthusiasm for reading is greatly stimulated.

2. Tell stories, give speeches, perform short plays and other activities. The direct function of reading is to enlarge children's vocabulary and improve their activity ability. In order to keep children interested in English reading and read after class effectively, we should provide them with a platform to display the results of extracurricular reading.

Encourage children to tell stories, tell jokes, make speeches and even sing an English song in English every day during meals or after school. In order to show themselves and avoid losing face, children will carefully study the books at hand in advance and watch the English discs that have been decorated for a long time. This is also an exercise for their oral expression ability and exercise ability.

3. Let the students draw their own English cartoons. Comic books that are both informative and interesting are most popular among primary school students, because they are funny, exaggerated and humorous, and the dialogue is concise and to the point, so students can understand the main idea through pictures. English cartoons are also an important part of some students' English magazines. We guide children to create their own cartoons, which is not only the reuse of those reading materials, but also an effective way to cultivate children's comprehensive ability. On the one hand, children should read and understand stories, on the other hand, they should think in English and show their painting skills.

In fact, practice has proved that motivation is the source and motivation of active learning, interest is the internal motivation to indirectly promote students' active learning, and it is the most realistic and active factor in active learning strategies. When students have a strong interest in the materials they have learned, they can concentrate, feel high, give full play to their potential and enhance their will to overcome difficulties. With the obvious improvement of learning interest and initiative, the ability to read different topics has also been improved.

Fourth, how to effectively expand reading

Of course, to improve reading level, vocabulary and phrases are very important, just like building a house needs bricks, and vocabulary is the brick for reading English. It is very difficult to read English without a considerable number of English words. Therefore, to improve reading level, we must learn to accumulate words. This requires children to learn English at ordinary times and have the habit of accumulating vocabulary and phrases. On the one hand, they need to learn and memorize the vocabulary required by textbooks, and on the other hand, they need to accumulate it in extracurricular reading.

We might as well do this: after reading the whole article, read it again, guess the new words according to the context as much as possible, and when we still can't guess the meaning, look it up in the dictionary, then copy it in a small notebook that we carry with us, and often take out this notebook to recite the memory. It takes a lot of time, but it works well. Because of frequent contact and repeated memory, the vocabulary has grown rapidly.

Fifth, English has expanded the process of reading-assisted teaching.

English expansion can provide a large number of authentic English resources for English teaching. Making full use of these resources can also create opportunities and conditions for students to further develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities and form a certain comprehensive language use ability. Therefore, using the weekly extended reading class, teachers should carefully select articles that students are interested in, teach them rules, give students the initiative to learn, and train their listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities. In teaching, we can start training from four aspects: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

1) Listening training:

We can use some jokes as short and humorous listening materials. Students are not only willing to listen, but also listen carefully, which effectively avoids the tension and anxiety that students are prone to in listening class, makes those students who don't understand eager to know the content of the story, and effectively urges them to improve their listening level. Practice has proved that most students can grasp the main content of the material and understand the humor of the story when listening. A few students who don't understand can also listen up and understand a few words, but they will never be absent-minded. In the long run, these students' listening ability can also be improved. Sometimes, in order to keep students' curiosity and interest in reading newspapers and improve their listening level, I ask students to choose their favorite essays and introduce them to the whole class in the form of a three-minute speech before class, thus training everyone's listening level.

2) means training:

English, as a practical course, must pay attention to transforming the teaching of language knowledge into language practice and improve the quality of language practice. Reading materials in newspapers are often closely related to students' daily life. After careful design, teachers can completely turn reading materials into interesting and meaningful discussions for students. The key to the success of classroom teaching is to arouse the enthusiasm of students. Therefore, it is very important to choose the right topic for students to speak. Teachers can make full use of these topics and let students discuss or debate. In order to enable students to express their views in class, the discussion topics can be announced before class, so that students can be fully prepared. In the discussion, teachers try to encourage each student to ask questions and speak boldly, and ask them to express their thoughts, feelings and opinions as clearly as possible, and give examples. With the growth of age, according to modern intelligence theory, everyone's interests are different. So the topics can be varied: current affairs and politics, astronomy and geography, people's family affairs, jokes and anecdotes, sports comments and so on. All these provide vivid materials for students' oral expression and make their words meaningful, reasonable and interesting.

3) Reading training

Professor Xu Guozhang once said, "Only by reading can you get maximum practice and enjoy the real pleasure of learning a foreign language. Reading brings you a whole new world. " With the rapid development of information today, it is very important for students to learn how to obtain information quickly. The richness of reading materials will greatly affect the speed at which learners acquire information. Expanding reading English can not only help students understand world events, learn and consolidate a lot of English language knowledge, but also contact a lot of vivid languages, greatly improving students' ability to obtain information. Practice has proved that teachers can cultivate students' habit of reading English outward bound training through classroom teaching and rational use of outward bound training, so teachers should strengthen the guidance of classroom reading methods.

Students are required to read with five questions (who, what, when, where and how) and answer the questions themselves while reading. Once the problem is clarified, the article will be basically understood. This can help students read the article along the author's way of thinking, grasp the important details of the article and get more information. When reading an article, we should cultivate students' skills in grasping the theme, and remind students not to be stumped by individual words and phrases when browsing the full text quickly, but to understand the full text from the coherent meaning of the context. In this way, students can obtain information quickly and accurately.

It is necessary to develop good reading habits. Can be combined with reading materials to expand sight distance training. When reading, students are required to move their eyes to a whole sentence at a time, then transition to a whole paragraph and read several sentences at a time, so as to quickly grasp the center of the article and understand the main idea of the whole text. Ask students not to make any sound or ghost when reading, and train them to overcome the habit of turning words into sounds before thinking about their meanings. After reading, you can test students' understanding by judging questions, multiple-choice questions or questions. If the correct rate can reach more than 70%, the speed will be accelerated; If not, strengthen training. Repeated training in this way can increase the input of knowledge and information, train students to concentrate their thoughts and quickly grasp the context of the article, thus improving reading speed.

4) Writing training

At present, middle school English writing belongs to instructional writing; The openness is not strong. Therefore, many students are not interested in writing in English; Because the language materials that some students usually input are not authentic, Chinglish appears at the beginning of writing, which is not authentic to read. In view of the above problems, I made the following attempts:

Encourage students to take notes, record good sentences in reading and read frequently. In addition, the key words and phrases that have not been mentioned in class in the article, together with simple and clear examples, are posted on the "learning column" in class to encourage students who have spare capacity to read by themselves after class and accumulate vocabulary.

Adhere to the theme of classroom discussion in writing, pay attention to students' language use in class, guide students to use their newly learned language knowledge more, and attach importance to students' oral output. Strong oral expression ability is bound to help improve written expression ability. Therefore, in the classroom, teachers should strive to create situations and encourage students to export their language ability. Students should be encouraged to write what they say in class and what they write after class. Good articles are posted at the back of the classroom to encourage.

In short, expanding a wide range of reading topics and reading methods can meet students' diverse reading needs and hobbies, thus stimulating and mobilizing students' reading interest to a great extent; Activities and tasks focusing on expanding reading can provide practical and valuable language training for students and promote the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills; Expanding reading can help students build confidence, stimulate and encourage students to actively expand reading after class and promote lifelong learning; Expanding auxiliary teaching and building a bridge between the classroom and the world can help students learn English better and help them better understand and understand the world.