Reading, as a learning method, can enrich students' knowledge, broaden their horizons, improve their cognitive and aesthetic abilities, edify their thoughts and minds. Middle school students have strong reading ability and self-education ability, which sometimes leads to rebellious psychology towards didactic education, and reading is their favorite activity. Our reading education combines the characteristics of middle school students and draws lessons from the unique effects of reading activities. Apply reading to moral education. Of course, what we call reading education is different from general reading activities. Instead of giving newspapers and magazines to students at will, so that students can read a lot of articles to enrich their minds, it is pointed out that educators can select the best works from a variety of newspapers and magazines according to certain educational purposes, which can not only deduct the educational objectives, but also have a high degree of appeal, readability and deep attraction to students and print them out for students to see. Let the students read. When students are shaken emotionally and inspired ideologically, their consciousness will be improved. The content of moral education will be internalized in students in this way, and students' behavior will change gradually. Although this change is not immediate, this kind of education has far-reaching influence and is lasting and reliable. This kind of education is essentially a kind of self-education and an effective way to fundamentally implement moral education. Moral education has the law of beginning and ending, and knowledge, emotion and action can be pioneers. Reading education starts with "knowledge" and "emotion" with excellent works, enlightens people with "knowledge" and touches people with "emotion". Students' emotions are touched and their ideological and moral cognitive level is improved, which will inevitably affect their "behavior" change and complete a complete psychological process from inner change to explicit behavior change.
The most important part of reading education is the selection of materials. At all times and in all countries, there are numerous good articles, but there are not many articles that are most suitable for our reading education. Material selection requires educators to read newspapers and periodicals extensively, always with the utilitarian purpose of "treasure hunting", and at the same time, they can make full use of high-grade digest magazines such as Reader and Youth Digest to explore "treasures" from them. The articles in these magazines are carefully selected. But some are suitable for middle school students, some are not, some have prominent educational themes, some have unclear themes, and some are suitable for educational materials. But most of them are not enough as model reading materials for reading education, and we need to find the best reading materials from a large number of articles. Of course, it is very important that the person who chooses materials should have high literary literacy and aesthetic ability, keen insight and rich emotions, and at the same time, fully understand the ideological and psychological state of middle school students and their cognitive level and reading interest.