《语文课程标准》要求初中语文教学要注重拓宽学生语文学习和运用的领域,使学生在交叉、渗透和整合中开阔视野,获得语文实践能力。在当前初中语文教学中,于是就出现了教师为了阅读拓展而拓展,教师以课文中的内容和重难点为由头,将语文阅读教学“拓展”为思想品德教育课、时事分析课、影视音乐欣赏课等等。语文教学中的文本是教学的载体,具有延展性,在教学中教师不仅要通过文本进行教学,还应该激活文本、拓展文本。那么,如何在初中语文阅读教学中做到有效拓展呢? “Chinese Curriculum Standard” requires junior high school Chinese teaching should pay attention to broaden the field of student language learning and use, so that students broaden their horizons in the cross, infiltration and integration, access to language skills. In the present middle school Chinese teaching, there are teachers who expand in order to expand their reading. Teachers regard the contents of the texts and heavy and difficult points as the starting point. The teaching of Chinese reading “expanding” is the course of ideological and moral education, current affairs analysis, Music appreciation class and more. Text in Chinese teaching is the carrier of teaching, which is malleable. Teachers should not only teach through texts but also activate texts and expand texts. So, how to effectively expand the junior high school Chinese reading teaching?