Title:
A RESEARCH ON THE APPLICATION OF GRADED ENGLISH PICTURE BOOKS IN EIGHTH GRADE ENGLISH READING TEACHING

Authors:
Liu Dandan and Wang Haitao

Abstract:
Reading is one of the important ways for learners to acquire language skills. The "New Curriculum Standard for Junior High School English" emphasizes the importance of English reading, and English teachers should focus on cultivating students’ English reading literacy. This requires teachers to explore new teaching methods and select suitable reading materials as supplements to textbooks. English graded picture books are excellent reading materials that compensate for the deficiencies of textbooks and stimulate readers’ interest through beautiful illustrations, thereby cultivating students’ reading habits. English picture book reading teaching can meet the requirements of the new curriculum standard and cultivate students’ core literacy, making it an excellent teaching model. Using this teaching model in eighth-grade English reading instruction can enhance the efficiency of English teacher’s reading instruction and improve students’ independent learning abilities. This article employs methods such as questionnaire surveys, interviews, and classroom observations to understand students’ reading situations and issues in reading teaching, grade students’ reading levels, select appropriate graded English picture books for students, and design English reading teaching by integrating picture books with textbooks.