Stories provide opportunities to discover new words and meanings through which means?

• A. Silent reading
• B. Watching videos
• C. Physical activities
• D. Told aloud or read aloud

Answer: (D)

Hearing stories spoken aloud helps students learn new words and their meanings. When a word is spoken in the story, students hear its pronunciation and see how it fits with the surrounding words, which makes the meaning clearer. The context provided by the sentence or dialogue helps them infer unfamiliar terms and remember them. Read-alouds and storytelling also model fluent language and give students a chance to discuss and define new vocabulary right after they hear it, reinforcing understanding through repetition and use. Silent reading can introduce words too, but the immediate auditory context and discussion that come with read-alouds are especially effective for discovering new words and meanings. Watching videos can bring words into view, but it doesn’t provide the same direct link to the text’s language and spoken context, and physical activities don’t focus on vocabulary in the same way.