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3 3 purposes. So in this paper, different stories genres in textbooks for senior high schools are analysed, including recount, anecdote and narrative from the perspective of generic staging based on the Appraisal Theory. For Halliday, language has three meta-functions, interpersonal, ideational and textual. Interpersonal functions of language account for the social relations between participants of activities. It is through the interpersonal meanings that we can see the exciting and attractive features of stories. The Appraisal Theory is a theory about interpersonal meanings at the level of discourse semantics, which deals with meanings beyond the clause. Attitude is the central system of the appraisal system, through which the speakers’/writers’ feelings can be revealed and their statuses can be explored. Thus, in this paper, we use attitude system within appraisal framework as one of our theoretic bases to see the deep meanings of stories to be analysed. Rationale of the research: This research is chosen for the following reasons: Firstly, also fundamentally, it is due to the importance of reading in school education, which besides what is mentioned above, to a certain degree, can be proved from the large proportion of reading comprehension in English tests. Secondly, it is due to the lack of theoretical and genre-based research in the reading of high schools domestically. Although the importance of reading is evident in school education and most of teachers have realized it, researches on reading in senior high schools focused mostly on the surface level of teaching practice rather than on the fundamental theoretical basis. So we hope this research can work as a complementarity to the papers by experienced teachers who mostly propose how-to-dos in teaching reading. Genre-based pedagogy has been proved successful no matter in the early development of the Sydney School in the project of “Write It Right” or the recent practice led by Rose “Learn to Read: Read to Lea