The new curriculum standards of the Ministry of Education require how many words to read in primary schools and junior high schools.

For elementary schools, the total amount of extracurricular reading should be no less than 1 million words; for junior high schools, the total amount of extracurricular reading should be no less than 2.6 million words.

Junior high schools are required to learn basic vocabulary and grammar knowledge along with the text to help understand the language difficulties in the text; understand commonly used rhetorical methods and experience their expression effects in the text. Understand the knowledge of important writers’ works and cultural common sense involved in the text. Able to use libraries and the Internet to collect the information and materials they need to help with reading. Learn to formulate your own reading plan, read widely various types of reading materials, read a total of no less than 2.6 million words after class, and read two or three classics every school year. Recite 80 excellent poems (paragraphs).

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Relevant requirements for compulsory education Chinese courses:

1. Teachers should strive to improve classroom teaching and consider overall knowledge and ability, process and It integrates methods, emotional attitudes and values, pays attention to the organic connection between listening, speaking, reading and writing, strengthens the integration of teaching content, coordinates the arrangement of teaching activities, and promotes the overall improvement of students' Chinese literacy.

2. Pay attention to students' reading, writing, oral communication, collection and processing of information and other Chinese practices, advocate reading more and writing more, change the mechanical, rough and tedious homework methods, so that students can learn Chinese in Chinese practice, Learn to learn.

3. Be good at communicating inside and outside the classroom, listening, speaking, reading and writing through special topic learning and other methods, so as to increase students’ opportunities for Chinese language practice. Make full use of educational resources such as schools, families and communities to carry out comprehensive learning activities and broaden students' learning space.

People’s Education Press-Compulsory Education Chinese Curriculum Standards