5.1 Some bad reading habits
Vocalizing. When students are reading, their slips are moving or they are making some gentle sounds, but they can’t feel what they are speaking, this habit may hinder students from understanding the passage well.
Reading word by word. When they are reading, they like to point at the word one after another with their fingers.
Regression. Students are not sure of the parts that they have read, so they will come back to read the parts again.
Unnecessary actions. Some students like playing with pens or rulers while they are reading. Sometimes they even make some noise or shake their bodies while reading.
5.2 Methods to overcome these bad reading habits.
As high school English teachers, they should help students develop a good reading habit, because good reading habits have good effect on the improvement of reading comprehensive ability. Students should develop a habit of reading silently and pay full attention to the words. That will avoid scattering attention or affecting reading speed.
Students should try to grasp the key words of a sentence quickly; this is helpful to understanding the passage successively.
To sum up, cultivating students’ reading comprehensive ability is a complex course. High school English teachers should try their best to help students overcome the bad reading habits and develop a good reading habit.
VI. Conclusion
In a word, reading plays an important role in high school English teaching. So high school English teachers had better not ignore the importance of reading in English teaching, and they should try their best to help students cultivate and improve their reading comprehensive abilities.