prereading

Pre-text skill building

Prereading refers to activities done before reading a text in full—skimming headings, examining illustrations, reviewing vocabulary, or activating prior knowledge about a topic.

The term appears mainly in educational contexts, where prereading strategies help students comprehend difficult material: The teacher assigned prereading questions to prepare the class for the chapter.

comprehension

schema

Organized representational structure

contextualizingSupplying surrounding information
predictingStating future outcomes
questioningSeeking answers through inquiry

activating · previewing · scanning · headings · subheadings

anticipation

preview

Advance showing sample

skimmingPassing lightly over
blurbBrief promotional text
synopsisCondensed version of content

teaser · overview · glimpse · browsing · flipping · sampling

emergent-literacy

decoding

Extracting meaning from symbols

phonicsSound-based reading instruction
storytimeScheduled narrative session
preschoolEarly childhood educational program

kindergarten · readiness

Categories

Prep Workchecklist, homework, outline, research, warm-up

Opposites

temporal sequence in reading development

prereadingreading

Interpreting written text

literate · reading proficiency · independent reading · reading response · literacy

temporal sequence relative to reading

prereadingreading

Interpreting written text

review · reflection

Family

read, reading, reader, reads, unread, reread, misread, readable, introducing

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