Reading and writing provide the foundation of education.

Storytelling can be considered as the first steps to developing literacy (Huffaker, 2004).

The practice of telling stories allow children’s language and reading skills to grow (Bransford, Brown, and Cocking, 1999).  

Found some great supporting sites:

Blogs represent a perfect medium for literacy. Authors must read and write as they would on paper, while increasing their comfort with computers and the Internet. Because blogs do not require exceptional technical skills, but still offer the opportunity to “tinker” using Web programming languages for customization, blogs remain equitable for all age groups and both genders, and still provide a medium for learning programmatic skills - http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_6/huffaker/ (The educated blogger: Using weblogs to promote literacy in the classroom by David Huffaker)

http://blogs.ala.org/aasl.php?title=blogging_toward_literacy&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
(The official web log of the American Association of School Librarians.)

http://ola.wkkf.org/klcc/klccnewsletter/2006/Aug/page5.htm

http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/uploads/NECC2006/KEY_13699113/Raytick_BlogHandout.pdf 

(Blogging Toward Literacy: Creating a community of readers among middle school student - Presentation Handout from the NECC 2006 Conference, San Diego, California. Karen Connaghan – Pam Raytick )