All students are verbal learners long before they are textual learners. This does not go away when they learn to read. What those students you are thinking about may not be good at is taking verbal instruction in large-group settings. One-on-one, they are likely fine as verbal learners. When they get to their small groups, there will be lots of opportunities for their group members to reexplain the task in a more focused setting. As a teacher, you know for which students such reexplaining may be necessary, and you can observe to make sure this is happening.
Proust and the squid
Science of reading
