英语阅读教学的实质是培养学生从书面材料中吸取知识和获得信息的能力。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。同时,阅读能力的提高又为听说能力和写作能力的发展打好基础。因此,培养初中学生的英语阅读能力是英语教学的一项重要任务,如何培养初中学生英语阅读能力则是英语教师需要不断思考和解决的英语教学难点问题。一、培养阅读兴趣是提升阅读能力的前提 The essence of English reading teaching is to develop the ability of students to draw knowledge and obtain information from written materials. Fostering reading ability helps to expand vocabulary, enrich language knowledge and improve language proficiency. At the same time, the improvement of reading ability also lays a good foundation for the development of listening and speaking ability and writing ability. Therefore, cultivating junior high school students ’English reading ability is an important task in English teaching. How to train junior middle school students’ English reading ability is a difficult problem that English teachers need to constantly think and solve. First, to develop reading interest is to improve the reading ability of the premise