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How to cultivate students' innovative thinking ability in composition teaching

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In recent years, the composition topic of college entrance examination is novel and unique, with a certain depth and breadth, which requires teachers to update their concepts in composition teaching and cultivate innovative thinking with new curriculum standards.

First of all, cultivate students' consciousness of seeking difference and innovation. Teachers can use examples from famous books to motivate students. For example, Ouyang Xiu described autumn as bleak and cold in Ode to Autumn Sound, with a sentimental tone of "sorrowful autumn", while Mao Zedong described autumn scenery as lively, beautiful and magnificent in "Qinyuanchun Changsha". Li Jianwu's Climbing Mount Tai in the Rain describes the strange scenery of climbing Mount Tai in the rain, while Yao Nai's Climbing Mount Tai describes the magnificent scenery of climbing Mount Tai on a sunny day. And the list goes on.

Secondly, seek innovation in concept. The composition should be accurate first, and novel second. Novel ideas and unique insights can give people a spiritual shock and spiritual pleasure. When middle school students make up their minds, they tend to absorb the wisdom of others or be mediocre and superficial. Therefore, in composition training, students should be guided to achieve the purpose of innovation.

1. According to the fluency of divergent thinking, when reviewing questions, guide students to conceive from multiple angles, explore the fuzziness of things as much as possible, and choose the most realistic and meaningful point of view to write. For example, in the composition of the college entrance examination in 2000, candidates were asked to write an article on the topic "The answers are colorful", and there was a perfect composition "The choice of life", which was very innovative-"The answers are colorful and the choices of life are varied. Some people want to build a lot of military exploits, from soldiers to generals. Some people want to make a fortune in high technology like Bill Gates, but I just want to be an ordinary teacher. This is my best choice and my best answer. " Because the author changes the angle, the article is novel and unique.

2. According to the characteristics of flexibility, guide students to change their mindset and look for new ideas and highlights of the same topic. There are three texts in the high school Chinese textbook, focusing on the historical facts from the Warring States to the Qin Dynasty. Among them, Su Xun's "On Six Kingdoms" takes "Six Kingdoms are all shattered, and the disadvantages lie in Qin" as the argument, criticizing the disadvantages of the Northern Song Dynasty's blind compromise and concession to Qidan and Xixia, and enduring humiliation and sharing weal and woe; Jia Yi's "On Crossing the Qin Dynasty" summarizes the historical lessons of Qin's rise and fall, and puts forward that "benevolence and righteousness are not applied, and the offensive and defensive situation is different." Argument, for the reference of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty; And Du Mu's "A Fang Gong Fu" puts forward that "the Qin family is also Qin, not the world." This debate sounded the alarm for the Tang Dynasty. Similarly, the same composition topic, analyzed from different angles, has different views.

3. According to the uniqueness of different thinking, teachers should guide students to seek a more subtle center for the same composition topic. For example, from the reverse thinking of "where there is a will, there is a way", the conclusion of "where there is a will, there is a way" is drawn, and a series of subjective and objective factors of success are analyzed; Starting from "those who are close to ink are black, those who are close to ink are black", this paper draws the view that those who are close to ink are not necessarily red, and those who are close to ink are not necessarily black, and analyzes the important role of subjective factors. Starting from "opening books is beneficial", we draw the conclusion that "opening books is not necessarily beneficial", and we should read some good books in a targeted and selective way. 200 1 The national college entrance examination composition requires candidates to write an article on the topic of "honesty", and one of the candidates' perfect composition "Not too much dishonesty" writes that "in general, we all regard" honesty "as an indispensable virtue of a gentleman. We all pay attention to honesty and trustworthiness and like people who do things honestly; But under special circumstances, it is not an exaggeration to be insincere. " It can be seen that in order to seek novelty and difference, we can think in the opposite direction, see right in the opposite direction, and seek novelty in differences, so that our thinking is unique.

Third, innovation in content. A masterpiece should not only have extraordinary ideas, but also have unique content. In the usual composition teaching, we find that some students' materials are limited and outdated. The deeds of Einstein, Marx, Lei Feng and others have almost become the "building blocks" of their writing.

If students want to think about problems from multiple angles, explain problems and express their arms, they must constantly enrich their own material library, constantly update their writing content and keep pace with the times. "Ask the canal to be so clear, because there is running water at the source." Writing can become "living water" only by constantly drawing fresh blood from life. Therefore, teachers should always provide students with new information to stimulate students' interest in collecting new information. We should make full use of all kinds of new information provided by newspapers and magazines, radio and television and computer networks. For example, in daily writing, guide students to praise Socialism with Chinese characteristics with the great achievements of 30 years of reform and opening up introduced in the media. Materials like this are full of the flavor of the times and can add bright colors to the composition. In 2006, the composition of the Beijing volume of the college entrance examination requires candidates to write an article on the theme of "the symbol of Beijing" and talk about their feelings or opinions. Some candidates use Beijing's hutong culture and Beijing's natural landscape to write. No new ideas were put forward. And a perfect composition "The Symbol of Beijing" wrote, "The weather of Han and Tang Dynasties, the grace of Wei and Jin Dynasties, the elegance of Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi, and the elegance of Confucius and Mencius are the cultural symbols of China; Beijing opera, Beijing dialect and cross talk are unique in Beijing. I hope that in the 2008 People's Olympics, Beijing can freely present its own symbols. " Combined with the Beijing Olympic Games, the article embodies the practical significance of "timely combination of articles", which is unique, novel and full of the flavor of the times.

Fourth, seek difference and innovation in structure. The idea is novel and the content is good. If you add a unique structure, it will make the article icing on the cake. Structural innovation can start from two aspects: first, pay attention to the beginning and end; The second is to guide students to use a variety of writing methods to express the center and cultivate students' ability to analyze problems in many aspects.

Clever layout, write the beginning and end. Generally speaking, it emphasizes putting forward the center and directly shows the ambition. The thinking of seeking difference needs to break through the original mindset. The ancients emphasized that writing articles should have a "phoenix head" and strive to be novel, beautiful and attractive at the beginning of writing. Middle school students' compositions can start with an inscription, and form a full text in the form of "motif+topic" or "introduction+text", and so on. The ending is profound and novel. The ancients emphasized that the end of the article should be "leopard tail", which was concise, powerful and thought-provoking. It can adopt enlightening ending, poetic ending, caring ending, encouraging calling ending, and can also adopt different endings such as questioning, quoting, lyricism, coronation, metaphor and parallelism. It should be determined according to style, content and needs.

Structural innovation should pay attention to the use of a variety of performance methods. In this regard, teachers should "write in the water". For example, write a short passage with only quotations and examples and print it out for students to see. Then write a paragraph with the students in class by using positive and negative arguments, metaphors, reduction to absurdity, analogy and other methods, and then enrich it into the short article one after another, so that the argument of the short article can be proved in many ways. On this basis, let the students modify the article by themselves. In this way, a variety of argumentation methods are adopted, which makes students' argumentative writing have a small leap and breakthrough in structure. When writing a narrative composition, you can use sequential narration, flashback, insertion, supplementary narration, sub-narration, detailed narration, brief narration, direct lyric, indirect lyric, first narration and then discussion, first discussion and then discussion between narratives.

In a word, it is a very important task to cultivate middle school students' innovative thinking ability. We should actively explore and practice, give full play to students' creativity and improve their writing level.