Primary and Secondary School English Reading Instruction from the Perspective of English Subject Key Competencies

The National English Curiculum puts great emphasis on developing students' key competencies through a certain thematic context around different types of texts. This article elaborates English reading instruction in the light of key competencies, which covers the definition of reading, four classical reading models and several lighting-like reading theories. Through the analysis of several classical theories, the author manifested the status quo of English reading in junior and senior high school, reading has gained underestimated importance in the classroom teaching, showing an urgent need to make improvements in reading teaching. Some specific implications are given: teachers should adopt activity-based approach to guide the instructional design, following three levels of design: learning and understanding, practicing and applying as well as transferring and innovating; reorganise the teaching content based on the big idea so that students can learn in a logical and comprehensive way, six-element-integrated curriculum content should be recognised and analyzed clearly in text analysis.