Reading Treasury: Grade 4 Chinese Language

Author: Jin Xian
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Reading ability is a very important basic literacy skill in Chinese language education. Cultivating students' reading ability has always been a key topic in Chinese language teaching. In recent years, with the growing calls for quality education, the assessment of reading ability has become increasingly important. In various exams, the proportion of points allocated to reading has been rising, and reading test questions have become more flexible and diverse, with the depth of reading content also increasing. This set of "Reading Treasure" guides you into the world of reading, teaching you how to "savor," "experience," and "reflect" while reading, and how to develop the good reading habit of "extensive reading with deep thinking." During the writing process, "Reading Treasure" follows several principles:
1. The principle of combining nourishment and training. We believe that Chinese language learning is more akin to art education and must emphasize the influence of Chinese language and culture through recitation, extensive reading, memorization, and deep thinking, thereby improving students' reading and writing skills.
2. The principle of unifying humanity, comprehensiveness, and practicality. The rich humanistic connotations of Chinese language courses have a profound and broad impact on people's spiritual realms. Therefore, the of Chinese language education should be emphasized. The materials selected for "Reading Treasure" are abundant and profound, with certain spiritual value guidance, helping students understand truth, goodness, and beauty while improving their reading ability.
3. The principle of unifying exemplarity, contemporaneity, vividness, and interest. The selected articles adhere to the principle of "excellent in both content and form," considering the psychological characteristics of students in different grades in terms of content, language, and style. While ensuring language norms, attention is paid to the contemporaneity of the selected texts, as well as the liveliness, vividness, and interest of the language, to suit students of different ages.
This series consists of four volumes, covering grades 3 to 6. It includes approximately 320 passages, chapters, and sections. The selected content is theme-positive, with beautiful language, clear rhythm, sincerity, and excellence in words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs. These pieces are either profound in meaning, ingenious in structure, thought-provoking in discussion, or elegant in language. The rich reading information they contain greatly helps in cultivating students' moral character, cultural literacy, and language skills. The selected texts vary in genre and length, with strong readability, and the content is slightly above the reading level of students in the corresponding grade. The are diverse, and the question types are typical, aiming to provide comprehensive training from multiple perspectives.
"Reading Treasure" offers examples of reading training for primary school students, Chinese language teachers, and parents, progressing from simple to complex and from easy to difficult. This allows primary school students to grasp the general rules of reading short passages, overcome the difficulty of "analyzing short passages," and develop good reading habits. Through reading, they can challenge themselves, overcome difficulties, enjoy growth, and gain resilience. We sincerely hope that students will find the keys to reading in "Reading Treasure," master reading methods through reading short passages and solving problems, continuously improving their comprehensive reading ability and exam-taking skills. We wholeheartedly wish that students will fall in love with reading, learn to read, improve in reading exams, achieve excellent results, and lay a solid foundation in Chinese language for their future adaptation to society!