Reading is a complex intellectual activity to obtain information from written language, and it is the main purpose and way of language learning. The following is my collection of English reading strategies, you can read for reference!
English reading strategies
This paper mainly analyzes the types of English reading comprehension in senior high school entrance examination in recent years, and expounds how teachers can guide students to master scientific and effective reading strategies through reading training in and out of class, and apply these strategies in English reading special training to experience the effects brought by these strategies, so that students can finally adopt different reading strategies according to different reading requirements in the exam, thus achieving high scores.
Keywords: reading strategy of new curriculum standard, main problem-solving methods
Two years ago, I heard a lecture given by Li Junhe, a national special-grade teacher and head teacher of North Four English. Do you think his is the most profound and wonderful? Let readers win the world? The point of view.
Indeed, English reading comprehension in the senior high school entrance examination is tested all over the country? Major events? There are four pieces of reading comprehension in many places. Cloze does not belong to reading? Reading accounts for a high proportion, and high scores can often make the whole paper get high scores. Therefore, it is necessary to master effective reading strategies.
Then, how can teachers guide students to master effective reading strategies in order to win the world by reading?
First of all, teachers must carefully interpret the new curriculum standards for students. Ensure that teachers have new curriculum standards. 20 1 1 The new English curriculum standard for compulsory education promulgated by the Ministry of Education describes reading skills as: 1. Can infer and understand the meaning of new words from context and word formation. 2. Be able to understand the logical relationship between sentences in a paragraph. 3. Be able to find out the theme of the article, understand the plot of the story, and predict the development and possible outcome of the plot. 4. Be able to read common genres at the corresponding level. 5. Be able to use simple reading strategies to obtain information according to different reading purposes. 6. Be able to read with dictionaries and other tools. 7. Extracurricular reading should reach 6.5438+0.5 million words or more.
After understanding the new curriculum standard, teachers should encourage and guide students to enjoy reading in their usual teaching, so that students can develop reading interest and good reading habits and master some reading strategies. I think the following common reading strategies must be mastered by middle school students. Teachers should give students special training in reading comprehension strategies.
First, eliminate distractions, stabilize emotions, and develop a good reading psychology.
If there is no stable mood, when encountering new words and difficult sentences, students will be upset, unable to control themselves, and then make judgments at will. Only by taking your time can you have a clear impression and a deep understanding of the articles you read.
Second, learn to sweep, find and jump to improve reading speed.
Learn to turn the habitual reading of a word into a sentence-by-sentence scan. Looking for reading means looking for relevant information in the article with questions in your heart. Skipping is to learn to skip sentences that have nothing to do with the topic and read sentences that are related to the topic directly.
Third, learn to pay attention to keywords and hints.
The first sentence of the first paragraph and the first sentence of the last paragraph often imply keywords. Students who are good at finding keywords and key sentences are more likely to grasp the whole picture of the article and understand the theme of the article.
Fourth, learn to mark while reading.
A sign is to circle the time of each character, because the character is more important in the article and is the first of the six narrative elements. Time clues are very important for understanding and grasping the main idea of the article. Another kind of marking is marking, which requires students to mark the answer position of each question in the article with a pen and mark the question number next to it. This is a good way to master the details of the article, and forming this habit can make students see at a glance when checking.
In recent years, the reading comprehension of senior high school entrance examination in Nanning has a wide range of topics and rich contents. Topics include popular science knowledge, society, culture, life, environmental protection, advertising, people's stories and so on. Genre includes narrative, expository and argumentative. The topics of the proposition are reading and judging right and wrong, reading and choosing. There are four main types of questions:
First, the theme of the topic
The proportion and difficulty of the theme questions in reading comprehension questions are quite large. The main idea of the article is what the author wants to express. To find out the central idea, we should use the scanning fast reading method. Different articles have different positions in the central sentence, and often the title of the article is the theme of the article. The central thought sentence has the characteristics of generality and pertinence. The central idea is the core of the full text, so the author will elaborate this center through various details in the article. Teachers should guide students to learn to understand the meaning between the lines and grasp the main idea of the article as a whole. According to past experience, the first sentence of the first paragraph and the first sentence of the last paragraph of English reading comprehension articles are often the main sentences. Tianxing Education Network "Examination Research" summarizes the common proposition methods of examination theme as follows:
What is the central idea of this article?
What is this article mainly about?
The theme of this article is _ _ _ _
The main point of this article is _ _ _ _
Which of the following is the best title of this article?
The title that best expresses the theme of the article is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The author's purpose in writing this article is _ _ _ _ _ _ _
To find a topic sentence, we must first understand the writing method of the article. Deductive writing is the most common writing method in English reading. In other words, the topic sentence appears at the beginning of the article, directly puts forward the theme, and then explains it with details to support the theme idea expressed by the topic sentence. Induction is also very common, that is, the topic sentence is located at the end of the paragraph, and the author puts the facts first and then draws a conclusion.
Second, reasoning and judgment questions
Inference and judgment refers to the process of making certain judgments and reasoning on the basis of understanding the literal meaning of the original text, through the analysis of the logical relationship of the text and the hint of details, so as to get the deep meaning of the article. Common reasoning problems include logical reasoning and common sense reasoning. Inference and judgment questions are difficult questions in reading comprehension, which usually account for about 20% of the total. This paper mainly examines the ability of candidates to clarify the logical relationship of context and the recognition ability of candidates. Teachers should guide students to understand the full text in the reading process, capture useful hints and clues from the literal meaning, and make logical reasoning through analysis and judgment. You must not be subjective in doing this kind of problem, and replace the author's point of view with your own. Pay special attention to words that describe the environment and atmosphere and express the author's attitude and views.
Tianxing Education Network "Examination Research" summarizes the common propositional reasoning judgment methods as follows:
We can infer _ _ _ _ _ from the first paragraph. What can we infer from the article?
We can infer _ _ _ _ _ _ from the text.
What can we learn from this article?
From this article, we can draw the conclusion that _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The author implies _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
This passage is most likely to appear in _ _ _ _ _ _
Third, the problem of word meaning speculation.
This question mainly examines students' ability to infer word meaning and semantics according to the context, and highlights students' ability to analyze specific language environment. The main questions are:
Are you online? Paragraphs, words? . It means _ _ _ _.
According to this article? It means _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Underlined words? It means _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Teachers should guide students to guess by combining the meaning, clues and internal logical relations of the context. Generally speaking, the meaning implied by the context and the tested words are usually synonymous, antonyms, or their analytical relationship, which can directly determine the meaning. When it is impossible to make a judgment according to the context, we can consider using syntax and internal logic. For example, first determine the part of speech, whether it is a noun, verb, adjective or adverb. Then study the relationship between the sentence where the test word is located and the adjacent sentence. After making a guess, it is necessary to check whether the guess result is correct according to the context.
Fourth, the details of understanding questions
Details are the detailed information and facts of the article. The characteristic of detail comprehension questions is that the selected answers must find related words, phrases, sentences or paragraphs in the article. The choice must be based on the information provided by the article itself, not on your own subjective assumptions or speculations. Detail comprehension tests the ability of candidates to find information quickly and accurately and analyze it. Teachers should guide students, when the details are long and difficult sentences, first judge whether it is a simple sentence or a complex sentence, then judge the main sentence and clause, and then analyze the proposition of understanding the meaning details. What? The form of asking questions, such as what, when, where, why, who, etc. , involving time, distance, times, quantity, some need to be calculated by simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. There are also details about facts, reasons, results and purposes.
So what are the general methods and steps to do reading comprehension questions? The teacher must not send out several exercises, so that students can finish them independently and finally decide the answer.
First, we should send articles to guide students to look at the problems first and read the articles with problems.
Distinguish the five questions after each article, namely, theme, reasoning, guessing words and understanding details. Then scan the article in a targeted way to quickly locate the problems in your mind. For graphics, tables and advertising articles, we must use this method, and the exam is to test the speed. This method can save valuable time.
Second, read the article quickly by scanning and skipping.
Find key words and topic sentences, grasp the time and place of the article, clarify the context of the article and grasp the essence of the article.
Third, read the details carefully and straighten out your thinking.
Especially when reading a narrative, there is usually a pulse to be found. Read the characters, time and space clues, the occurrence, development and ending of events in detail. Read the arguments and arguments of argumentative essays in detail.
Fourth, do detailed questions and guessing questions first, and then do logical reasoning questions and topic questions.
It is a difficult problem in reading comprehension to summarize the central idea, find the title and reason of the article and judge the problem. We must find a foothold according to the clues provided by the article, infer the unknown from the known, and can't imagine it out of thin air and guess at will.
In a word, teachers should guide students with effective reading strategies according to the idea of English Curriculum Standard (20 1 1). Ask students to calculate the time spent on each reading. Students are required to develop good reading habits according to the methods and steps guided by teachers, so that each student can master the skills of getting high marks. After the special training or mock exam, teachers should collect the data of reading comprehension and analyze the quality of the exam, so as to check and fill the gaps in a targeted way.
refer to
[1] Ministry of Education. English curriculum standards for compulsory education. 20 1 1.
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[3] Zheng Jinqun. On English reading strategies for senior high school entrance examination (data compilation) .2011.
[4] Li Chunlei. On the cultivation of english reading ability. English Weekly, 2008-11-1.
[5] Li Junhe. Speech on English learning methods. Courseware, 20 10(9).
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