The primary school reading volume reaches more than 1.45 million words.
The requirements for the total amount of extracurricular reading for primary school students in the "Chinese Curriculum Standards" are:
The first stage of schooling (grades 1-2): Accumulate your favorite idioms and aphorisms . Recite 50 excellent poems (paragraphs). The total amount of extracurricular reading should be no less than 50,000 words.
The second stage of schooling (grades 3-4): Develop the habit of reading and reading newspapers, collect and exchange books and materials with classmates. The total amount of extracurricular reading should be no less than 400,000 words.
The third stage of schooling (grades 5-6): Use information channels such as libraries and the Internet to try to conduct exploratory reading. Expand your reading range. The total amount of extracurricular reading should be no less than 1 million words.
The extracurricular reading suggestions are as follows:
1. Fairy tales: "Andersen's Fairy Tales", "Grimm's Fairy Tales", Chinese and foreign modern and contemporary fairy tales, etc.;
2. Fables: "Aesop's Fables", "Krylov's Fables", Chinese ancient and modern fables, etc.;
3. Stories: idiom stories, mythological stories, Chinese and foreign historical stories, Chinese and foreign folk tales of various ethnic groups, etc.;
4. Poetry and prose works, such as Lu Xun's "Morning Blossoms Plucked at Dusk", Bing Xin's "Stars Spring Water", etc.;
5. Long literary masterpieces, such as Wu Chengen's "Journey to the West", Shi Naian "Water Margin", Lao She's "Camel Xiangzi", Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe", Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", Romain Rolland's "Celebrities", Gorky's "Childhood", Ostrovsky "How Steel is Tempered" etc.