Primary School Chinese Step-by-Step Reading Training. Primary School Grade 4

Author: Xiao Shi (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: Language is an important means of communication and an essential part of human culture. Language proficiency is the foundation for learning other subjects. Through language learning, students can develop a love for their mother tongue, guide them to understand and use their mother tongue correctly, enrich their language accumulation, cultivate language awareness, develop thinking skills, enhance their moral cultivation and aesthetic appreciation, and gradually form good personalities and sound character. The above discussion fully illustrates the importance of language learning. However, language seems easy to learn but is actually not easy to master. This is because language learning is highly practical, and the main way to develop language skills should also be through language practice. Whether it is recognizing characters and writing, oral communication, reading, or writing, repeated practice and reflection under scientific guidance are necessary to acquire these skills. Of course, learning should be scientific and practice should be effective—simply "subject flooding" is not effective. The compilers of this book have been engaged in primary school language teaching for decades and are deeply aware that one of the difficulties students face in learning language is reading and answering questions related to characters, words, sentences, and passages provided in extracurricular materials. The reasons for this are mainly two: first, primary school students are young, have limited knowledge accumulation, and lack sufficient comprehension ability, coupled with limited written summarization and expression skills, often failing to meet the requirements; second, some students have poor reading habits and cannot focus to understand the text or think about the questions, often skimming through the text like a dragonfly tapping water before answering, sometimes not even understanding the questions before writing down answers, making accuracy highly questionable. Primary school students often fail to attribute this correctly, mistakenly believing that "reading short passages is the hardest," fearing reading exercises and language exams, and even affecting their interest and enthusiasm for language learning. To address this, we have compiled this series of "Primary School Language Step-by-Step Reading Training" books, which consists of 6 volumes and includes approximately 400 passages (including excerpts). The content is very diverse, covering topics from ancient times to the present, from China to foreign countries; including poems, fables, fairy tales, and stories; praising revolutionary leaders, scientists, and model figures, as well as ordinary laborers; depicting people, objects, and events, as well as science, landscapes, andpassages. All have been carefully selected, paying attention to their ideological, literary, scientific, and humanistic qualities. We believe that reading these passages will not only broaden primary school students' knowledge in various areas but also help them absorb the wisdom of their national culture, develop their thinking skills, be nurtured by noble sentiments and tastes, enrich their spiritual world, and develop their personalities. Additionally, we have provided detailed answers for each selected passage to facilitate self-study or guidance from parents and teachers. Of course, due to the of language learning, it is important to respect each individual's unique experience in the learning process. Therefore, some answers are not the only correct ones; as long as they are well-supported and logical, they are acceptable, and answers should not be rigid.