小学作文教学作为小学语文教学中的重要教学科目,是培养学生文字能力、表达能力以及语言组织能力的重要途径。随着新课程改革进程的不断发展和深入,小学语文教学中的作文教学也越来越得到重视。通过有效的作文教学,对学生语文知识的学习、表达能力以及不断增强自身的语文素养和人文素养都是非常重要的。但是由于小学生刚刚接触学习,自身所储备的知识不多,结构不健全、不完善。所掌握的材料不够丰富,社会阅历较少,导致学生在写作文的时候无话可说、无物可写,造成当前小学语文作文出现空洞、虚假的现象。因此,课外阅读就显得特别重要。本篇文章主要针对课外阅读在小学语文作文教学中的重要性进行相应的探究,以期通过正确的教学方式优化小学作文教学。 Primary school composition teaching, as an important teaching subject in primary Chinese teaching, is an important way to develop students’ ability in writing, expressing and language skills. With the continuous development and deepening of the process of new curriculum reform, composition teaching in Chinese teaching in primary schools has also drawn increasing attention. Through effective composition teaching, it is very important for students to learn and express their knowledge of Chinese language as well as to constantly enhance their own literary and humanistic qualities. However, as the pupils have just come into contact with the study, their own little knowledge is stored and the structure is not perfect and imperfect. The material they have is not enough rich and the social experience is few, causing the students to have nothing to say when they are writing essays and nothing to write, resulting in a hollow and false phenomenon in the current Chinese essay. Therefore, extracurricular reading is of particular importance. This article mainly probes into the importance of extracurricular reading in the teaching of Chinese writing in primary schools, in order to optimize the teaching of primary composition through the correct teaching methods.