阅读教学是初中语文教学的重点内容,有助于提高学生的作文写作能力和语文综合素质。因此,培养学生的阅读能力是至关重要的,需要在长期的阅读实践中逐渐积累,才能够发展形成。新课改提出要充分发挥学生在学习中的主体地位,形成自主学习的习惯,因此要在初中语文教学中着重培养学生的自主阅读能力,从而提高学生的语文素养。本文对培养初中生自主性阅读能力的途径和方法做了分析和总结。 Reading teaching is the key content of junior middle school Chinese teaching, which helps to improve students’ writing ability and comprehensive language quality. Therefore, it is very important to develop students’ reading ability, and they need to gradually accumulate in long-term reading practice before they can develop. The new curriculum reform proposes to give full play to the student’s dominant position in learning and form the habit of self-learning. Therefore, in junior high school Chinese language teaching, students should focus on cultivating their self-reading abilities so as to improve their language skills. This article analyzes and summarizes the ways and methods of cultivating junior high school students’ reading ability.