Storytelling and dramatization activities are described for language-
learning-disabled children which highly motivate them to write, listen to,
and dramatize stories. The work of the Soviet psychologist L. S. Vygotsky,
and other recent research in mediated learning, demonstrates that when
children participate in such activities that challenge them, they gradually
become aware of the skills necessary to carry out the tasks, and internalize
the means for doing so based on the help they are receiving from teachers
and peers. Thus children become literate by mastering skills in the context
of an activity that has a purpose which makes sense to them.
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