Interventions addressing these children’s language abilities have been the subject of much researchfocusing on which types of intervention are most effective. For example, children learn words betterwhen they are presented in context, rather than in isolation, which deepens children’s understandingof the meanings of the new words (Christie & Roskos, 2006; Harris, Golinkoff, & Hirsh-Pasek, 2011;Miller & Gildea, 1987). Stories can provide such a context: Children who hear new words in the courseof a story are likely to learn those words (de Jong & Bus, 2002; Elley, 1989; Elley & Mangubhai, 1983;Ganea, Pickard, & DeLoache, 2008). Providing the new words’ definitions during the reading of the storyis especially helpful to learning (Biemiller, 2006;
