English reading strategies

Reading ability has always been the primary and important task of senior three students. In the specific learning process, everyone has learned and mastered a lot of grammar and syntax knowledge, which is a very important and necessary foundation. However, although many students have mastered a lot of vocabulary and grammar knowledge, they still feel powerless when reading the original text, which is often manifested in knowing the words and syntactic structures, but not understanding their meanings, let alone deeper connotations and extensions. Reading behavior itself is not the same as the cultivation of reading ability. The amount of English reading behavior is not exactly equal to the strength of reading ability. Reading and understanding, knowledge and ability are not exactly the same.

One of the factors that hinder reading efficiency is reading psychological barriers and reading concept errors. Accustomed to the beginner mode of words, words, sentences and translation in the basic stage, students naturally form a relatively fixed reading mode, that is, word-sentence-grammar-translation (answer). As a result, they not only read slowly, but also can't grasp the main thread of the article. What is even more frightening is that they ignore the overall understanding and lack macro English reading ability.

Reading habits and speed

Influenced by the reading mode of "precision", "precision" and "knowledge", many students develop some bad reading habits, which further restricts reading efficiency. These bad habits are:

1. The reading eye span is small.

Reading video refers to the width of words that can be clearly perceived by the eyes every time they stay. The influence of video on reading is manifested in two aspects: first, the number of words is clear at a glance; Second, the relationship between the number of fixed eyes and time. Good readers don't read word for word, but focus on meaning groups. In order to improve reading efficiency, they need to overcome the obstacle of small viewing range and consciously train themselves in their usual reading.

2. Sound reading or psychological reading

Sound reading refers to reading every word aloud, sometimes moving your lips silently. Some people call it lip reading. Another form of pronunciation that is more difficult to detect is mental reading, that is, imagining or reciting the pronunciation of each word in your mind, and often reading it with your fingers. This kind of sound reading or mental reading is probably the result of the learning method centered on pronunciation reading in early English learning and the reading habit developed in intensive reading. This will not only hinder the reading speed, but also rely too much on the language and easily ignore the meaning, thus affecting the breadth and depth of reading.

Read back

Reading back is to come back and read it again, also called backward reading or repeated reading, which is the anxiety of readers about what they have read, sentences, words and so on. Although reading back cannot be completely avoided, too many times will definitely affect reading efficiency. In addition, the habit of reading back is also caused by paying too much attention to micro-language phenomena. Students who are used to reciting are used to having corresponding Chinese translations, otherwise they will feel unsafe and lack confidence in what they read. We should understand that the understanding of an article is holistic, sometimes general and relative, so as to avoid reading habits that are too detailed and too subtle and overcome bad reading habits.

4. Do not understand the characteristics of western writing structure

The characteristics of general western writing structure are:

1. Topic sentence (theme, control idea)

2. Supporting sentences (a) Examples or details of supporting topic sentences

3. Supporting sentences (b) Examples or details of supporting topic sentences

4. Supporting sentences (c) Examples or details of supporting topic sentences

5. Conclusion Perceptual conclusion

Please read the following example:

Wherever you are, you will find "white-haired boy", sometimes called "blond boy". He received special treatment as if he were above everyone else. You will find him at school, university, home or where you work.

At school, he is the teacher's pet and won't do anything wrong. Sometimes she asks him to do some small work for her. He came to class in the morning, all dressed up and tidy. He always raises his hand, ready to answer the teacher's questions. He knows all the answers. He annoys you, especially if you are the last in the class and the teacher thinks you are stupid. How you hate him!

In college, he walked-more often strode-through the school playground as if he owned them. Sometimes, he wears a colorful football or basketball shirt or sweater and proudly wears a bright red, green or yellow university logo in front. How broad his shoulders are and how muscular he is! He can make girls happy just by smiling at them. He bears the mark of success.

At home, "Blonde Boy" is my mother's choice and her favorite. Sometimes, he is the eldest son-sometimes the youngest son. If you are in between, you are out of luck.

Then, you find that there are others who feel the same way as you, and are ready to "let their hair down"-tell you their private thoughts. One of them asked, "Why does he have everything I don't have?" You ask yourself the same question.

Finally, one day, you decided to stop hating him. Did he become the boss and you find yourself working for him?

1, from the article we can know that "White-haired Boy" is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

A gray-haired boy B, a pet who doesn't do bad things.

A child is his mother's favorite child.

A man who is always lucky

2. "He made you angry" (in paragraph 2) means

He played tricks on you.

He does your hair.

He makes you a little angry.

He cut your hair too short.

3. According to the passage, which of the following is correct?

At home, the second child is considered the most unlucky.

The top student in the university is the white-haired man.

Wearing colorful clothes will make you more attractive.

The school teacher treated her students unfairly.

4. In the author's opinion, you finally stop hating "white-haired boy" because _ _ _ _ _ _.

You have no choice but to face the facts.

You decided to try your best to be better than him.

You were appointed as the boss by him.

You're starting to admire him.

Students should use some reading skills when reading this article, such as:

1) Confirm and distinguish

Confirmation means to look at relevant words and references accurately, not to belittle yourself, to combine meaning with line, to correctly grasp the text content through sentence structure and language meaning, to distinguish a sentence or a paragraph, to see whether it is one meaning or several meanings, whether it belongs to one level or several levels, whether it has deep meaning, and not to swallow it. The key to understanding this article is the blond boy in the first question.

2) Prediction and confirmation

In reading, we should have the ability to foresee the context, and actively foresee the development of the plot behind and the direction of the author's thinking according to the information clues of the text. To grasp this idea, you can also use paragraphs, procedures or topic sentences and some specific information. You can also confirm the written information or expectations you read at that time through the words below the text, such as how, yet, through, sentence function indicators and so on. And according to your previous experience, knowledge and context.

3) Contact and reasoning

Because every discussion has a theme and is orderly related. Therefore, when reading, we must pay attention to the context, and at the same time, we must also achieve the relationship between the exterior and the interior-infer the deep meaning through the surface language, and the internal and external connections-infer and understand the written information with the help of the peripheral background knowledge. This kind of macro reading can improve readers' associative ability and understanding ability.

4) Register and context

Every text has a register, that is, environmental orientation, character relationship, text nature and so on. Context refers to various linguistic environmental factors in a text, including context, intonation, suggestion and so on. Understanding register and context plays a very important role in accurately understanding the text. Therefore, we should learn to use register and context. And be good at using it in reading, such as the second question of the example, pay attention to the context, especially if you are at the bottom of the class and the teacher says you are stupid. How do you hate him!

5) induction, summary

The above basic elements of reading comprehension are not isolated from each other, but organically combined and permeated with each other. Students should consciously train themselves in reading, make use of comprehensive information and be good at drawing conclusions. The title of the example is relatively easy to generalize, that is, the white-haired boy is always lucky and lucky, such as the fourth question of the example.