New Horizons in Education


No. 45 , Pages 54 - 59 , 2002

Using Children Literature to Develop Creative Ability of Intelligent Students (Article written in chinese)

Fung-Luen LAU

Abstract

There is a type of gifted children, who are creatively gifted. Some of them perform outstandingly in writing. Taking this type of children as the object of study, this paper explores how their creativity may be enhanced through reading and writing children’s literature. This paper will first explain relationship between gifted children and creativity as well as that between children’s literature and creativity. The steps of enhancing the creatively gifted children in the above way will be explicated, to be illustrated with an authentic teaching example.

Keywords: gifted children; creativity; children literature; reading; writing

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