多年来文言文教学枯燥而机械，课上老师讲起来主要以落实字词、语法现象、文言翻译为主；学生学起来多靠死记硬背，对课文文意的理解也大多着眼于内容的概括和分析，文言教学匠气十足，缺乏文学的美感和灵性，俨然成为了语文教学的“鸡肋”。针对这一现象，本文提出了诵读教学这种文言文教学的重要方法。本文首先溯源历史上的传统诵读法，在此基础上界定了诵读法的基本内涵，然后分析了诵读法在语文教学中被忽视的原因，接着分别从文言文的语言特点以及学生的认知规律和《语文课程标准》要求三方面来分析诵读教学对文言文教学的必要性。最后笔者通过一线的文言文教学实践和具体的文言文教学课堂实例，对于诵读教学的实施过程给予一定的建议。

Over the years teaching classical is boring and mechanical, the teachers are mainly focus on implementing the words, grammatical phenomena and classical translation; while students are learning through rote, understanding the context of the texts and analysis, classical teaching is unimaginative and lack of beauty and spirituality of literary, language teaching has become a "tasteless." In that case, this paper points out the importance of teaching method of classical Chinese. This paper analyzes the current status of classical teaching, tracing the history of the tradition of reading, on this basis, it defines the basic meaning of reading method, then analyzes the reason why language teaching method is not taken seriously, and then analyze the necessary of reading method to classical Chinese teaching from the angel of "Language curriculum standards "requirement, the character of classical Chinese, and the rules of the students learning. Finally, the author give some suggestions to implement the reading method based on the classical teaching practice and a number of specific instances of classical lesson.