Research on the Application of Word-level and Text-level Reading Strategies in Teaching Young Learners under the Background of Core Competencies

Reading has been playing an important role in learning English. In April of 2022, the new English Curriculum Standard has also stated the significance and value of early reading. It means we have stepped into a new era of core competences, developing core competencies based on extensive reading activities. Reading can develop ESL students’ linguistic abilities, cultivate their culture consciousness advance their thinking quality and improve their learning ability. And these abilities are the key dimension of cultivating students' core competences. Strategies in teaching reading have become a major concern for English teachers. On one hand teachers focus on the various reading strategies, on the other hand, they are more eager to know how to teach strategies in a proper way. First of all, strategies are the process of applying the skills effectively in reading. But it's difficult to explain how the readers use the strategies, because excellent readers make good use of the strategies automatically and internally without even realizing it themselves.