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Reading in English Classrooms-Teachers’ Dialogues

Reading in English Classrooms-Teachers’ Dialogues. Group 4: Enhancing Creativity Through Reading. Creativity. Use one minute to think about one way to improve a coffee cup. Nine Generic Skills (English Language Curriculum Guide 2004). Collaboration skills Communication skills Creativity

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Reading in English Classrooms-Teachers’ Dialogues

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  1. Reading in English Classrooms-Teachers’ Dialogues Group 4: Enhancing Creativity Through Reading

  2. Creativity • Use one minute to think about one way to improve a coffee cup.

  3. Nine Generic Skills(English Language Curriculum Guide 2004) Collaboration skills Communication skills Creativity Critical thinking skills Numeracy skills IT Skills Problem-solving skills, Self-management skills, Study skills

  4. Why do we need CREATIVITY ? Reproductive learning answered the survival needs of individuals and societies in the past. It continues to be necessary today, but it is no longer enough. What is needed for survival is innovative learning……. If one of the challenges of education is to prepare children for a fast changing world, then teaching children to think creatively becomes a clear need. (Robert Fisher 1990 P.30)

  5. Creativity • Creativity is a complex and multifaceted construct. Within the individual, creative behaviour is the result of a complex of cognitive skills/abilities, personality factors, motivation, strategies and metacognitive skills. (EMB English Curriculum Guide 2004 P.75)

  6. Are you a creative person? Is is serious Sees the fun of things avoid surprises Like surprises intuitive relies on others Shows independent alert to possible danger Seeks new patterns Likes to play seeks reassurance Uses own imagination keeps feeling private Share dreams suspicious of the new Open to experience cautious curious Follow regulations Likes to play Fearful of consequence

  7. Safeguarding Self Vs Experimental Self

  8. How to be an encouraging adult? Allow time Values creative ideas Defers judgments Follow child’s interest Shows real interest Encourage play Accepts child’s decisions Uses open-ended questions Challenge child to try out new ideas See learning in mistakes Optimistic about outcomes

  9. Creativity and Reading Comprehension Text Responses to text Construction of meanings through cognitive activity Opportunities for creative self expressions

  10. Different Kinds of Creative Abilities • Fluency e.g. Mind-mapping Consider all factors Asking open-ended Qs • Flexibility e.g. Think from different perspectives (six thinking hats) Different points of views from different characters Riddle reading

  11. Different Kinds of Creative Abilities Elaboration e.g. Reading + extending the story (speaking/writing) P+M+I (Plus + Minus + Interesting) FIP (First Important Priorities) What happened next? Originality e.g. Poem reading and writing Reading + creative another version of the story

  12. Creativity and Reading Poem writing/reading Riddle reading FIP/PMI Writing an extension of the story Think from different perspectives (six thinking hats) Mind-mapping Reading Writing another version of the story Asking open-ended questions e.g. If Qs Different points of views of different characters Consider all factors (CAF) What happen next?

  13. Different Text Types Conducive to Creativity • Stories enable children to experience different kinds of lives • Riddles enable children to see between what has to be guessed and that which appears at first sight. • Poems give children the chance to write and read a variety of styles and forms • Jokes allow children to make unexpected connections between events and ideas. • Comics a wonderful way of making thinking visible. A child who find it difficult to understand formal complete sentences may feel dialogues plus visual images a lot easier.

  14. Riddles What kind of ball is fun to play with but does not bounce? Snowball What is black and white and has 16 wheels? A zebra on roller skates Why can’t your nose be 12 inches long? Because you can’t have a foot as your nose

  15. Please give this poem a title Traffic Lights On the top sits fire, In the middle gold At the bottom grass At the top you stop In the middle wait At the bottom, pass

  16. A Really Hot Meal A really hot meal Doesn’t appeal To a Its favourite dish Is very cold fish! Seal

  17. Jokes (1) Who is stupid ? "If there are any idiots in the room, will they please stand up?" said the sarcastic teacher. After a long silence, one student rose to his feet. "Now then mister, why do you consider yourself an idiot?" enquired the teacher . "Well, actually I don't," said the student, "but I hate to see you standing up there all by yourself."

  18. Jokes (2) Wedding Attending a wedding for the first time, a little girl whispered to her mother, "Why is the bride dressed in white?" "Because white is the color of happiness and today is the happiest day of her life." Her mother tried to explain, keeping it simple. The child thought about this for a moment, then said, "So, why is the groom wearing black?"

  19. Different Ways to Improve a Cup

  20. Bibliography • Fisher R.(1995) Teaching Children to Think Stanley Thornes (Publishers) Ltd: Cheltenham • Glover J.A., Ronning R.R. , Reynolds C.R. (1989) Ed. Handbook of creativity Plenum Press: New York

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