This study investigates students' engagement in vocabulary pre-teaching use in reading reading teaching and the factors that contribute to it. Based on research about vocabulary pre-teaching that has been done before, it is said that the use of vocabulary pre-teaching in learning to read is a method that is widely used. However, as far as I know, there has been no research on students' engagement in vocabulary pre-teaching and the factors that contribute to it. Therefore, student involvement is a good illustration of the importance of student learning journeys and improving student performance. When students are involved in the learning process, they tend to lose interest in what is being taught to them. This study focuses on students' involvement in the use of pre-teaching vocabulary in pre-teaching vocabulary as well as the factors that contribute to students' involvement in learning to read. Data were collected from interviews with five class VII student participants in the same class. the results of the interviews showed that students showed positive engagement responses with the use of pre-teaching. This is also shown in the quality of engagement with the type and context of engagement.