preprimer
- noun
- /ˈpriːˌpraɪmər/
- The teacher chose a preprimer to help her students learn basic reading skills.
- preprimer passage
- preprimer level
- preprimer and first
Examples
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After reading the preprimer, the children were excited to tackle more challenging books.
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The series consisted of a readiness-level reader, a preprimer, a primer, and then first-, second-, and third-level readers.
Academic text (2009) -
I have a kindergartener, age 5. Would that be preprimer?
Blog text (2) -
Participation criteria for the larger study included the ability to verbally communicate and read at least at the preprimer level, and a medical diagnosis of autism.
Academic text (2013) -
First-grade students received one preprimer passage, developed by the researchers, and a first-grade CBM-R passage selected from the EasyCBM series (http://easycbm.com/).
Academic text (2013) -
Broad lists were developed by sampling words from 500 high-frequency words, whereas narrow lists were created by sampling from the 133 words from Dolch preprimer, primer, and first-grade word lists.
Academic text (2012) -
Parents often buy a preprimer for their kids before they start formal education.
Synonyms
A small book that teaches the basic facts of a subject to beginners
A simple book used by students to learn to understand written words
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Morphology
Etymology
Preprimer is made of pre- meaning 'before' and primer, a word for a very simple first book, and you can think of prime as 'first'. So a preprimer is a very small book that children use when they are just starting to learn to read, before they use a primer.