初中英语教学在现代教育改革的背景下,迎来了新的目标和挑战,教师尤其在培养学生的阅读能力方面更要下一番功夫。根据对学生英语学习能力的培养以及学生在实际生活中对阅读的大量需求,英语教师需要尝试着进行课外阅读教学策略的实践与探究,以培养学生运用科学的阅读方法和策略获取信息的能力。一、现状调查与分析1.现状。我校是一所农村初中,学生中留守儿童占据了相当比例。这些孩子的英语学习基础参差不齐,很多学生没 Under the background of modern education reform, junior high school English teaching ushered in new goals and challenges. Teachers should make more efforts to cultivate students’ reading ability, in particular. According to the cultivation of students’ English learning ability and students’ heavy demand for reading in real life, English teachers should try their best to practice and explore extracurricular reading teaching strategies to cultivate students’ ability of using scientific reading methods and strategies to obtain information. First, the status quo and analysis 1. The status quo. My school is a rural junior high school, left behind children occupy a considerable proportion of children. The basis of these children’s English learning is uneven, many students did not