纵观现在初中地理教材,我们可以发现新教材与传统教材相比有了很大的改革,在原有的文字叙述之上,加上了很多的图表。这一改革表明在初中的教学中应当更注重培养学生的读图能力。图表是地理这门学科的第二语言。在学习地理的过程中地图可以作为一个媒介帮助我们理解初中地理知识。这包括世界的各大洲、各大洋的地理特征以及人口、交通、资源等情况。但是很多学生因为缺乏读图能力,图表的展示不仅不能够给他们带来帮助,反而理解地图成为他们的 Looking at the present geography textbooks in junior high schools, we can find that the new textbooks have been greatly reformed in comparison with the traditional textbooks, adding a lot of charts to the original narratives. This reform shows that junior high school teaching should pay more attention to cultivating students’ reading ability. The chart is the second language in geography. In studying geography, the map can serve as a medium to help us understand junior high school geography. This includes the continents of the world, the geography of the oceans, and population, transport and resources. But many students because of the lack of reading ability, the chart not only can not give them help, but to understand the map as their