In the Chinese textbooks for junior high school students

short vernacular stories are often presented as excerpts. The stories where these excerpts are taken are required readings for junior high school students and make an indispensable part of cultivating students' interests in reading and improving their comprehensive literacy. However

in practice

various problems exist in achieving this goal. For example

to achieve sound results in exams

many schools set up heavy teaching tasks for teachers while forgetting the original purpose of vernacular novel reading teaching. In recent years

as the concept of whole-book reading teaching emerges in China

front-line teachers are provided with a new approach to overturn the previous teaching pattern that focused on reading excerpts.