Unit 12 Lesson 3 Thinking Skills and Reading Strategies教学设计（表格式）-2025-2026学年8年级英语下册（仁爱版）

Unit 12 The Wonderland of Literature
Lesson 3 Thinking Skills and Reading Strategies
I. Material analysis
内容解读：
Thinking Skills为思维技能学习，内容为分析人物特质，即明确人物特质是指人或角色内在的本质，可通过探究其言行，达成人物分析。首先，呈现思维技能的定义和说明，阐释“人物特质”的内涵及“从言行洞察特质”的逻辑。其次，学生借助图片、文字信息，初步掌握如何从行为推导人物特质。再次，学生阅读文本，提取人物言行细节，填写人物特质表，巩固和内化“言行—特质”的分析方法。最后，学生通过两两合作，基于前面梳理的言行，讨论卖火柴的小女孩的特质，深化对人物的多维理解，同时锻炼其语言表达和合作交流能力。本部分共有 3 个活动。
Reading Strategies为阅读策略学习，内容为引导学生依据阅读需求，合理选用阅读策略。首先，通过“The Fox and the Stork”的图片及示例，呈现“明确阅读需求→匹配策略→运用策略理解”的完整流程，使学生初步认知策略选择逻辑。其次，学生阅读文本，开展应用实践，尝试根据自身阅读目标（如理解生词、预测情节等 ）选策略、用策略。最后，通过小组交流，复盘策略使用过程，巩固依据阅读目标“选用阅读策略”的元认知能力，提升阅读理解能力。本部分共有3个活动。
II. Teaching aims
通过本课的学习，学生能够：
运用分析人物行为与语言的思维技能，完成人物特质图表；
借助文本阅读与策略选择，提炼文学人物性格特质，提升文本解读与阅读策略运用能力；
加深对文学作品中人物的理解与感悟，增强文学鉴赏力，激发阅读经典文学作品的兴趣，同时掌握阅读策略选择方法，提升阅读效率。
III. Teaching procedures
课时教学内容概述
本课时为思维技能和阅读策略的学习。Thinking Skills 部分为分析人物特质的思维技能学习。Activity 1为学习理解类活动。通过观察图片、文本，填写人物特质图表，帮助学生提取人物行为和对应的性格，初步掌握分析人物特质的方法；Activity 2为应用实践类活动，学生阅读文本，完成人物特质图表，巩固 Activity 1所学分析技能；Activity 3为迁移创新类活动，学生依据 Activity 2 完成的图表，两两合作讨论卖火柴的小女孩的人物特质，提升语言表达、信息整合、合作交流等能力，深化对文学人物的理解。Reading Strategies部分为选择阅读策略的阅读技能学习。Activity 1为学习理解类活动。观察图片，思考阅读需求，学习选择适配的阅读策略，初步掌握策略选择与运用方法。Activity 2为应用实践类活动。阅读文本，根据阅读目的，运用恰当的策略回答问题，巩固阅读策略使用，提升文本理解深度。Activity 3为迁移创新类活动。小组合作，分享运用阅读策略理解文本的过程，强化对策略的掌握，提升语言表达与策略迁移能力，助力高效阅读。
教学步骤 学习活动 效果评价
Step 1 Lead-in 1. Read and understand the thinking skills of “Analyzing characters’ traits”.2. Observe the picture in Activity 1 and talk about:-What does Xiao Ying do -How can we know she is creative 观察学生回答问题时“行为-性格特质”关联的理解，判断其对分析人物性格特质思维的初步感知情况。
设计意图：借助简单示例，让学生初步掌握分析人物性格特质的基本方法，为后续深入学习做铺垫 。
Step 2 Reading & Learning 1. Read the text, analyze the character’s trait chart and learn the thinking skill.2.Read the text in Activity 2 again, complete the character’s trait chart, and check answers.3. Share your answers with your partners. 根据学生人物特质图表填写情况及同伴分享的情况，判断其对思维测落的掌握程度。
设计意图：通过文本阅读，让学生实践分析人物性格特质的方法，加深对文本和技能的掌握，提升阅读与思维能力 。
Step 3Discussing & Sharing 1. Work in pairs.Read the text again and discuss the little match girl’s character’s traits based on her actions and words.2.Choose some groups to share their talk in class. 根据学生小组分享表现，评价其对人物特质表这一思维技能的掌握程度。
设计意图: 通过小组合作与班级分享，让学生深化对“分析人物特质”技能的运用，在交流中拓展思维视角，提升合作学习与表达能力，巩固思维技能掌握，学以致用。
Step 4Reading strategies 1.Look at the picture and learn how to choose a reading strategy.2.Read the text and answer the questions.Then share answers.2.Group work：- Share how you used reading strategies to understand the text.- Discuss if other strategies could help better, and why.3.Choose some groups to share their talk in class. 根据学生小组分享表现，评价其对阅读策略的掌握深度、思维拓展及合作能力，适时指导。
设计意图: 引导学生在文本阅读中基于阅读目标运用恰当的阅读策略，提升阅读效率与理解深度，培养运用策略阅读的习惯，助力高效阅读。
IV. Blackboard-writing design
Unit 12 The Wonderland of LiteratureLesson 3 Thinking Skills and Reading StrategyThinking Skill: Analyzing characters’ traitsAnalyzing characters’ traits means figuring out the qualities or personality of a character in a story.Reading Strategies: Choosing reading strategiesSkimming, Scanning & Making a Conclusion, Making Inferences, Asking Questions, Making Conclusions, Monitoring and Clarify
V. Teaching materials
Thinking Skill: Analyzing characters’ traits
Exercise 1 Read the text and complete the tasks.
The Fox
“So please, become special to me!” the Fox said. “I cannot play with you,” the little prince replied. “We are not special to each other.” “That doesn't matter,”the Fox said. “You can become special to me.” The Fox continued, “My life is dull. I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All chickens are just alike, and all men are just alike. So, I get a little bored. But if you become special to me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I shall know the sound of your footsteps（足迹）, different from all the others. Your footsteps will call me out of my hole, like music.”The little prince thought for a moment. "What must I do " he asked.
1. Character: _________
2. What did the character do
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3. What was the character like
The Fox is _____________________________.
Answer key:
1. Character: The Fox
2. What the character does
He asked the little prince to play with him.
He explained that his current life is boring.
He believed that little prince could make his life wonderful and meaningful.
He succeeded in achieving his goal to build a unique relationship.
3. What the character is like
The Fox is Lonely and Hopeful Fox.
Exercise 3 Read the text and complete the tasks.
Suddenly, Veruca Salt screamed(尖叫), “I want a squirrel(松鼠)! I want one of those golden squirrels! Daddy, I must have one!” Mr. Salt replied, “Very well, my pet, in a moment. I’ll get you one soon.” “But I want it now!”Veruca shouted. Then, she rushed forward to grab a squirrel for herself. But the squirrels, all working in perfect harmony, turned on her. They thought she was a bad nut! Two squirrels kicked her from behind. Others pushed her toward the great garbage chute（垃圾槽）. With a terrified shriek(尖叫), she disappeared down the hole. “Veruca!” screamed Mrs. Salt. “My little treasure is gone!”
Question Your Answer (Use evidence from the text!)
Who is the character you are analyzing
What did the character do (List 3-4 actions from the text)
What was the character like
Answer Key：
Question Your Answer (Use evidence from the text!)
Who is the character you are analyzing Veruca Salt
What did the character do (List 3-4 actions from the text) 1. She screamed, “I want a squirrel! 2. She shouted, “But I want it now!” 3. She rushed forward to grab a squirrel for herself.
What was the character like She was a noisy, impolite and selfish girl.
Reading Strategies: Choosing reading strategies
The Monkey’s Paw
Exercise 1 Read the text and complete the tasks.
A family gets a magical, but dangerous, monkey’s paw(爪子) from a friend. It can grant (实现) three wishes of them. The friend warns(警告) them that it may brings trouble. The family don’t listen. They wish for money. The next day, they get money because their son dies in a factory accident. The mother, crazy with sadness, forces the father to wish for their son to come back to life. Later, they hear a terrifying knock on the door. The father makes a final wish. The knocking stops. They are safe, but they have lost their son forever.
1. What is the main problem in the story （Skimming）
2. How many wishes does the paw grant (Scanning)
3. Why did the father make the third wish Use story details. (Making a conclusions)
Answer Key
1. The main problem is that the monkey’s paw grants wishes in a terrible, tragic way.
2. It grants three wishes.
3. He made the third wish because he was terrified of what was at the door. He knew it wouldn’t be his son as he was before, so he wished it away.
Exercise 2 Read the text and complete the tasks.
The Secret Garden
Reading Strategies: Making Inferences & Asking Questions
Mary Lennox is a lonely, spoiled (惯坏的) girl sent to live in a big, lonely house in England. She discovers a hidden garden that has been locked for ten years. She secretly starts working to bring the garden back to life. She also finds her sick cousin, Colin, who never leaves his room. She and a friend take Colin to the garden. As the garden grows beautiful again, Mary becomes kinder and happier. Colin also gets stronger and learns to walk.
1. How does working in the garden change Mary （Making inference）
2. What is one question you have about Colin before he met Mary （Asking questions）
Answer Key:
1. It makes her less spoiled and lonely. She becomes happier and kinder because she has a purpose and friends.
2. Why did Colin keep hidden in his room / Did he ever try to go outside before
Exercise 3 Read the text and complete the tasks.
Journey to the West
Reading Strategies: Making connections & Making inferences
The Monkey King, Sun Wukong, is born from a stone. He learns powerful magic and becomes very strong. He can fight armies of gods! But he is also proud and causes trouble in Heaven. As punishment, the Buddha traps him under a mountain for 500 years. He is finally freed to protect Tang Sanzang on a long journey. The Monkey King is a great fighter, but he must learn to be humble (谦虚的) and use his powers for good.
1. Does the Monkey King remind you of a character from another story (book, movie, or comic) How are they similar （Making connection）
2. What lesson do you think the Monkey King learned （Making inference）
Answer Key
1. He reminds me of the giant from “Jack and the Beanstalk” because he was also very strong and proud, but someone smaller and cleverer taught him a lesson.
2. He learned that having great power is not enough; you must also be humble and use
it responsibly.
Exercise 4 Read the text and complete the tasks.
Della and Jim are a young, poor couple who love each other very much. For Christmas, Della wants to buy Jim a perfect gift. But she has very little money. Her most valuable thing is her long, beautiful hair. She cuts and sells it to buy a gold chain for Jim’s prized pocket watch. That evening, Jim comes home with his gift for her. He stares at her short hair. He gives her his present: a set of expensive combs for her long hair. Della then gives Jim the watch chain. Jim smiles sadly. “I sold my watch,” he says, “to get the money for your combs.”
1. Explain in your own words what happened to both gifts.（Monitoring & Clarifying）
2. If you were Della or Jim, how would you feel after this Christmas
Answer Key
1. Both characters sold their most valuable things to buy a gift for the other person. But the gifts they bought are now useless: Della has no hair for the combs, and Jim has no watch for the chain. It’s strange and sad because the things they each gave up made the gifts pointless to use, but it also showed how much they loved each other.
2. I would feel very sad at first because the gifts are useless. But then I would feel very happy because I can feel great love from the other. (答案不唯一)