作为一种可视化的教学和学习策略,思维导图使信息表征重点突出、条理清楚、层次分明。本文在介绍思维导图特点的优势的基础上,结合教学实践,提出思维导图可以作为阅读教学中的教学工具和学生的认知工具,能使困难、复杂的内容非常清晰、系统地凸显出来,因而能帮助学生更深刻地理解所学内容,更容易地组织和记住所读材料,可以有效地提高学生综合使用阅读策略的意识和阅读理解能力。 As a visual teaching and learning strategy, mind mapping makes the information representation focused, organized, and structured. This article introduces the advantages of the mind map and combines it with teaching practice. It proposes that the mind map can be used as a teaching tool and a cognitive tool for students in reading teaching. It can make the difficult and complicated content very clear and systematically prominent. Therefore, it can help students understand the content they have learned more easily and organize and remember the materials they read. It can effectively improve students’ awareness of reading strategies and their reading comprehension.