| "The Standard of Chinese Course" points that reading is the personal actions of students and that students' reading practice cann't be taken place by teachers' analysis. This suggestion is of great era characteristics and deep social significance. For several years, there have been many famous works on teaching of reading both in China and abroad, but most of which mainly deal with the teachers' actions of teaching, few of them are concerned with the actions of middle school students' personal extra-curricular reading. With the topic of middle school students' personal extra-curricular reading, this essay probes into the topic from the following 5 aspects: I .The significance of middle school students' personal extra-curricular reading. The personal extra-curricular reading is a good way to stimulate students' interest of studying, an effective supplement for teaching, the best method to develop the students' creativity, and a useful means of edifying students' sentiment. II .The basic characteristics and connotation. Personal reading is that during a certain period, with the development of students' personality and according to their respective characteristics, reading styles fitting to students themselves are formed and gradually a personal, active and healthy reading hobby is developed. Personal reading enjoys 4 characteristics: active, creativity, experience and criticism. III.Basic factors affecting personal reading. The factors are mainly described from family and social environment, teaching in class, non-intelligence elements, reading and evaluation ways and practice etc. IV.The ways to carry out personal reading. To carry out personalreading, widely reading is the basis, respecting students' personal experience is the precondition, students' free choices are passport, the conbination of reading content and students' living experience is the way. V.The value tropism of personal extra-curricular reading. On one hand, the current status of middle school students' extra-curricular reading has been inquired, on the other hand, facing the current status, it has been pointed out that teachers should guide their students in personal reading, that is to say to guide from utilitarian reading to classical reading, from interesting reading to volitional reading, from recreative reading to critical reading, the coexistence of students' and teachers'reading. |