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to preteach

to preteach

5.1
To teach students key words and ideas before they need them in class
  • verb
  • /priːˈtiːtʃ/
  • Jargon
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  • For the few students who did not show meaningful improvement in reading fluency, she decided to adapt the practice slightly by building background knowledge and preteaching key vocabulary to help make the material more accessible and increase its effectiveness.

Examples

  • Stations allow teachers to preteach, reteach, and explore content in isolated chunks.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The special educator may be able to aid your mainstreaming efforts by preteaching or reinforcing critical skills and concepts outside your classroom.

    Academic text (1991)

  • This study presents further evidence that teachers can effectively manage students' academic and behavioral problems by preteaching difficult content.

    Academic text (2002)

  • Adapting the same literature and preteaching comprehension helps students gain skills for participating in the general education ELA teacher's lessons.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Teachers of students with visual impairments and O&M specialists can preteach, coteach, and reteach ECC concepts that are partially covered by the general curriculum as one way to incorporate the ECC into a student's education.

    Academic text (2010)

  • Teachers can preteach essential skills to help students understand the lesson better.

  • By taking some time to preteach the vocabulary, the students felt more confident during the discussion.

  • In her class, the teacher likes to preteach new concepts before introducing them in detail.

Synonyms

to pre-teach
vsto preteach
3.8

Give learners key words or ideas before the main lesson

is written without a hyphen while keeping the same meaning

How Thorough

to train
∞ 1.0
to teach
∞ 1.0
to preteach
  • Jargon
5.1
to introduce
520 2.1
to mention
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

preteach infinitive
pretaught past
pretaught past participle
preteaching present participle
preteaches third person singular

Morphology

preteach = teach (transparent) = pre + teach

This is standard prefixation from 'teach', and the meaning 'teach beforehand' is directly predictable.

Etymology

Preteach combines pre- 'before' with teach, so to preteach is to teach something ahead of a lesson to help students be ready.