培养阅读能力有助于扩大词汇量,丰富语言知识,提高语言的运用能力,也是大面积提高中学英语教学质量的关键。本文从激发学生的阅读兴趣、培养良好的阅读习惯、提高学生的阅读速度、加大学生的课外阅读量四方面入手,阐述了如何提高初中生英语阅读能力的有效策略。 Fostering reading ability helps to expand vocabulary, enrich language knowledge and improve the ability to use language. It is also the key to improve the quality of English teaching in middle schools on a large scale. This article starts from four aspects: arousing students ’reading interest, cultivating good reading habits, improving students’ reading speed and increasing students ’extracurricular reading, and expounds how to improve junior high school students’ English reading ability.