How to Improve Students’ Reading Skills

How to Improve Students’ Reading Skills

发表时间：2009-07-09T10:51:14.077Z 来源：《中学课程辅导●教学研究》2009年第9期 作者： 王继宏

[导读] 本文阐述了提高阅读技巧的重要性以及提高策略。

How to Improve Students’ Reading Skills

王继宏

摘要：毫无疑问，英语是世界上最广泛使用的语言。我们是通过听、说、读、写四方面来学习英语的。阅读则是学习中的重要部分。本文

阐述了提高阅读技巧的重要性以及提高策略。

关键词：阅读技巧；重要性；阅读

作者简介：王继宏，任教于广东珠海市拱北中学。

I. Introduction

Along with the knowledge economy Age, facing more and more books, we almost keep in touch with the books everyday, how we

should read effectively and efficiently and gain more accurate information? when we read, how we conduct the comprehension of

vocabulary? Firstly we should master the use scope of the vocabulary, we not only pursuit and pay attention to the economy of

vocabulary, but also we should have master the use of word structure. When we have learnt the structures of words, they bring some

suffixes. Sometimes we come across some strange words, just according to their suffix, guess the word from the context. It is necessary

for us to analyze the word. Secondly it is very important for us to know difficult sentences, the function of a sentence could be divided into

four sides, and the structure of a sentence consists of six patterns. Then during reading if we want to master the whole article, we must

understand the meaning of every key paragraph. Finally we should attain the thesis effectively and efficiency, when we are reading a text,

besides we have some other reading skills and if we want to get more information we should improve our reading spread.

II. The importance of improving reading skills

Reading comprehension means extracting the required information from the text as efficiently as possible. Reading is a silent and

individual activity since the writers intention was that text should be read not heard. There are two broad levels in reading: (i) Visual

signals from the eyes; (ii) A cognitive task of interpreting the visual information, relating the received information with the reader’s own

general knowledge, and reconstructing the meaning that the writer had meant to convey. In order to achieve these two levels of reading,

the reader needs some reading skills.

III. How to improve our reading skills

1. Reading skills of vocabulary

The vocabularies maybe include not only a piece of meaning; it needs us to know all sides of them and in case that we could use

them correctly. Therefore, we should follow the idea of the writer in the use scope of vocabulary while reading and we can understand

deeply and analyze well.

We should pay attention to the correct use of the vocabulary. For the writer, just one word could be used in some place of a

sentence; the any other words could not take the place of it. Authors have arranged it according to the conditions above; they are the

basis of the author choosing words. So we must keep the styles of which the writers compose an article, they are the guidance which

readers??understand the article.

On the comprehension of vocabulary, we should know the “economy” of using vocabulary. Author will get rid of some words with the

purpose of being simple and clear, which appear in the text again and again or have not the great effect on the text. In this case, it

requires readers to have the ability of judging vocabulary. Of course, it is impossible for us to judge words well in one or two days.

2. Reading skills of sentences

The sentence is usually made up with words as certain grammar regulars and its own sense, which is based unit that has complete

and independent parts and consists of grammar, speech sounds and vocabulary structures. It is the smallest speech unit that can

express feelings and take message. Meanwhile, it is the smallest unit that composes a text. A sentence as its function could be divided

into four parts, that is, declaratives, interrogatives, imperatives and exclamatory.

3. Reading skills of Paragraph

During reading, if we want to hold a good master of the whole article, we must have good understanding in the meaning of every

paragraph.

In the course of reading, we read the first paragraph or two in its entirely at the fastest average rate to grasp the idea of the story, the

setting, a little of the author’s style, the love or mood and so on. Frequently the author will give an instruction in the first few paragraphs,

giving an overall picture of the selection. Hence, on the third or fourth paragraph, the readers read only the key sentences to get the main

idea of the paragraph, and skip the other part of it. Of course, note besides the first few paragraphs, it is wise to read the last few

paragraph, because they are often summarized. So we should master every paragraph very well in case we could acquire more