Selecting Useful Words to Pre-Teach - Part 1: Introduction

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An adult literacy tutor introduces the strategy of selecting useful words to teach an adult literacy student in order to increase the student’s vocabulary and to boost the student’s reading comprehension. The adult literacy tutor identifies the following types of words to pull from a text to teach to a learner before reading:
• Words Not Well Defined by Context
• Words in the News
• Difficult or Unfamiliar Words
• Signal Words
• Words Not Well Defined by Context
• Words that Reinforce Word-learning Strategies
• Prefixes and Suffixes
• Compound Words
• High-Frequency Words
Part 1 of 5