English reading teaching has two purposes: First, use the language materials of the text to learn the language points in it, so as to achieve the purpose of being able to use it. Second, on the basis of students' mastery of language points, they should gradually jump out of the circle of language points, so as to use language to exchange information and cultivate reading ability. Comprehensive materials for reading teaching language knowledge and training listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Therefore, reading texts should be taught as a whole. Otherwise, the problem of "seeing the trees but not the forest" will easily occur, which is not conducive to students' mastery of the central idea of the text and comprehensive training in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Of course, it is also necessary to carry out segmented teaching on the basis of overall teaching. Its purpose is to master the logical relationship between paragraphs, and then better understand and master the whole text. For a text, we should first teach it as a whole, and then teach it in sections on the basis of the whole teaching method. This is the "whole teaching method" that we adopt in English teaching.