Many students said that although they excelled in words and grammar, the composition still lacked highlights. I told them it was because they were spending too much time on topics, which led to a depletion of imagination, a decrease in sharpness, and a drastic decrease in reading. So, my advice is that no matter how busy and tired you are, you should make time to read some great extracurricular books. You can choose to read for 15 minutes before bed, or set aside time for reading throughout Saturday night. In middle school, it is impractical to improve your writing by "writing" alone. To get the best results in the shortest possible time, I believe that you should enrich your mind and accumulate knowledge through reading.
When I was chatting with my students after class, they often complained to me, "Teacher, I could have done this question, but I spent a long time in the exam room and didn't understand the meaning of the question." I can read that article very fluently, but after reading it, as soon as I answer the question at the end of the article, I will **: Why did I not even understand the main idea of the article after reading it for a long time!People say that writing is an important part of the language, but when it comes to writing, I feel like I'm going to be executed, and I can't write a few words even if I feel uncomfortable!”
Why do these students have such great difficulties in learning Xi?After observing these students for a while, I found the answer: students who have difficulties in reading, comprehension, and writing basically do not have the Xi of reading outside of class.
Reading is essential to our Xi. Sukhomlinsky pointed out: "The Xi success of a student in the middle and upper grades depends first of all on his ability to read with comprehension – to think while reading, and to read while thinking." A student's intellectual development depends on good reading skills. Students who are able to think while reading can complete any assignment more quickly and smoothly than those who do not have the ability to read and think quickly and quickly. There was no rote memorization in his Xi. When he reads textbooks and other books, he is in a completely different situation compared to those students who cannot read and think at the same time: after reading, he is able to clearly understand the whole and the part, the interdependence and the mutual conditioning of the object. ”
The Xi experience of an outstanding student who was successfully admitted to Peking University is also a good proof of this: "Since I was literate, I have loved reading. When I was a child, I read fairy tales and comics, and when I was older, I read literary works, cultural classics, and biographies of celebrities. Anything I can see and touch, I will read it. Some of the words I don't know ask the people around me, and some go to the dictionary and stick to it. I didn't see any effect in elementary school, but as soon as I entered secondary school, the benefits of reading a lot became apparent, and I was surprised to find that many of my classmates thought that the topics and sentences that were difficult to understand were not difficult in my opinion. In this way, my Xi is obviously much easier than others, and it is not difficult to get good grades. ”
In fact, the ability to read and understand questions is naturally strongIf you have strong reading skills, you will be able to understand the meaning of math problems quickly and find ways to do so. We can say that the strength of a person's reading ability determines his ability to learn Xi to a large extent. In middle school, we need to understand a large part of the questions that we need to understand in our usual Xi and examination process. If you are not strong in reading, you will undoubtedly encounter many difficulties in your future academic and Xi career, whether it is reading analysis in liberal arts or extracting questions in science. That's why I keep telling the students around me that no matter how busy your Xi is, it's very necessary to take some time out of class reading to practice your reading skills.
In class, I often find that when I explain a certain knowledge point, some students can quickly understand and nod their heads, while others seem to be at a loss and keep shaking their heads. This made me think that the intelligence level of students in middle school is actually quite similar, so why is there a difference in understanding?
In the communication with my classmates, I gradually discovered a pattern: most of the students who can quickly understand what I explain have the Xi of reading outside of class;And those students who struggle to understand in class and find it difficult to keep up with my train of thought often lack this Xi, or their extracurricular reading is very limited.
In fact, we can conclude that rich extracurricular reading is an important guarantee for the development of comprehension skills. The experience of a top student in the college entrance examination is a good example. He said: "After entering secondary school, with the increase in the tasks and difficulty of learning Xi, higher requirements are put forward for our various abilities. In particular, comprehension is directly related to our Xi efficiency. In order not to fall behind in middle school due to lack of comprehension skills, I deliberately developed the Xi of reading outside of class since junior high school. In the process of reading, I push myself to think positively and practice my comprehension skills by reading a lot. This approach has proven to be very effective. When many people around me complained that the new knowledge was difficult to understand and the topics were elusive, I was able to cope with it easily and learn Xi with ease. ”
Indeed, at the primary level, due to the relatively low difficulty of the coursework, the impact of differences in comprehension skills on learning Xi is not obvious. However, when we enter secondary school, the difficulty of coursework increases, the learning Xi tasks are heavier, and the strength of our comprehension ability has an increasingly significant impact on our learning Xi. Some students with strong comprehension skills are able to grasp knowledge more easily and efficiently in the process of learning Xi;On the contrary, some students with poor comprehension skills may spend more time and energy when learning Xi a knowledge point, and the learning efficiency of Xi is naturally not high, and the Xi learning effect will not be too good.
So, how do you develop a strong sense of comprehension?The answer is to exercise by reading a lot. Therefore, if you also realize that your comprehension ability needs to be improved, you may wish to learn from this college entrance examination champion Xi insist on extracurricular reading to exercise yourself beneficimately. I believe that as long as you persist for a long time, you will be able to make significant progress.
An outstanding student who received a perfect score in an essay for the college entrance examination was asked, "How did you get a perfect score for your essay?"He smiled and replied, "Actually, I don't have any special secrets. If there's one particular way to do it, it's that no matter how heavy my schoolwork is, I make sure to make time for reading outside of class. In the process of reading, I insisted on reading more, thinking more, and writing more. Reading more can enrich our knowledge;Thinking stimulates our imagination and enlivens our thinking;And writing more is a guarantee to steadily improve our writing skills. Reading outside of class for a long time, thinking deeply about what you have read, and writing regularly, will find that your writing ability has been imperceptibly improved. ”
This student's experience is of great value to all of us. Language is one of the most foundational and accumulation-dependent subjects, and it is almost impossible to achieve significant improvement in a short period of time. In particular, Chinese writing skills cannot be easily improved. Many students with weak writing skills often feel sorry because they can't overcome the problem of essays, and feel that it is difficult to write essays. However, as long as we pay attention to accumulating materials and increasing our knowledge reserves, it is not particularly difficult to improve our writing skills. Just like the outstanding student mentioned earlier, no matter how busy he is, he will find time to read outside of class, insisting on reading more, thinking more, and writing more. As more and more things accumulate in the brain, which is a reservoir of knowledge, you will be more comfortable in extracting and applying information, and it will be easier to write a good essay.
At the end of each Chinese exam, there are always some students who sigh and complain: "The reading comprehension questions of Chinese are simply my nemesis, and every time I encounter them, I am always helpless." I really don't know how to deal with these reading questions!"It's true that reading comprehension questions in Chinese are so varied and hidden that it's not easy to get a high score. These questions not only test our ability to understand the text, but also test our ability to analyze, judge and summarize the text. If we rarely read, or even don't read at all, and only wait until the time of the exam to temporarily cram, then it will be very difficult to master the reading comprehension questions because these skills are not exercised on a regular basis.
So, how can this be avoided?A top liberal arts student in the college entrance examination shared her experience: "I have loved reading since I was a child, and I think that my Chinese foundation is not bad, but when I do Chinese reading comprehension questions, I can't guarantee that I will get a high score every time. In order to improve my analytical, inductive and summarizing skills, I subscribed to two newspapers – Reading for Secondary School Students and Language Newspaper. Both publications have a number of high-quality reading comprehension questions. At that time, no matter how heavy and busy the daily study and Xi tasks were, I would insist on taking time out every day to do a classical Chinese reading question and a modern Chinese reading question. After doing this, I will also seriously think about why the answer is right and why the answer is wrong, so as to improve my ability to analyze, judge and synthesize. ”
She continued, "After doing this for half a semester, I found that the effects of reading were starting to show. In the past, I was able to lose the most points on the reading comprehension questions in the Chinese exam, and I was basically able to lose fewer points or no points at all. In addition, my own writing skills are also good, and my Chinese scores have always been at the top of my class. ”
Xi is a process of constantly checking and filling gaps. When we find that we have shortcomings in some aspects, we can take timely measures to make up for them, so that we can continue to make ourselves better. On the other hand, if we find that we are not good in some aspects, but we let it go, then it is likely that we will not be excellent.