小学生阅读能力的高低,在一定程度上影响着他们的语文水平。而小学生阅读能力的培养和提升,有助于推动语文教学良性发展,培养小学生健康向上的人格。但是,阅读教学仅仅依靠教材显然还远远不够,要在教材基础上进行适当拓展,只有这样,小学语文教学的水平才能更上一层楼。一、拓展阅读的重要性小学语文教学大纲明确提出:小学语文教学的目的是指导学生正确地理解和运用祖国的语言文字,使学生具有初步的听、说、读、写能力;在 The level of reading ability of primary school students, to a certain extent, affect their language proficiency. The cultivation and improvement of primary school students’ reading ability helps to promote the healthy development of Chinese teaching and cultivate the healthy and up-to-date personality of pupils. However, reading teaching is obviously still not enough to rely solely on teaching materials. It is necessary to expand appropriately on the basis of teaching materials so that the level of primary school Chinese teaching can be further improved. First, to expand the importance of reading Primary Chinese syllabus made it clear: primary language teaching aims to guide students to correctly understand and use the language of the motherland, so that students have a preliminary listening, speaking, reading and writing skills; in