作文教学是语文教学的重要组成部分,但作文教学又一直困扰着师生:教师感到作文难教,收效甚微;学生感到作文难写,提起笔来就感到头疼,觉得没东西可写,不知怎么下笔。在语文教学活动中,教师应该怎样优化作文教学策略、激发小学生习作兴趣、培养小学生习作能力呢?一、引领学生观察生活,捕捉素材生活是写作的源泉,没有生活就没有作文。教育家叶圣陶先生说:“生活犹如泉源,文章犹如溪流。 Composition teaching is an important part of Chinese teaching. However, writing teaching has always plagued teachers and students: teachers feel that writing is difficult to teach and has little effect. Students feel that writing is hard to write, and they feel a headache when they write a pen. How to write. In Chinese teaching activities, teachers should optimize composition teaching strategies, motivate primary school students to learn interest and cultivate primary school students’ abilities to practice. First, to lead students to observe life, to capture the material life is the source of writing, no life no composition. Educator Ye Shengtao said: ”Life is like a spring, the article is like a stream.