Creative Reading
What is a Creative Reading?
How does it differ from an ordinary reading?
Is there any way to let our children get used to the creative reading?
This is what we are going to talk about in this article.
Reading is an essential base and core stock by which the development of nations and people is measured. It’s the food of soul and brain’s training. Its being linked with the various creative abilities of a child, so that what is known by the creative reading emerged.
The creative reading is defined by: “It’s a process in which the reader reacts with the read text, it’s a directed ,imaginary activity which helps in creating new, valuable ideas based on her/his previous experiences ,depended on the interaction of the reader with the read text”. The readiness of a child for reading doesn’t depend on only one factor, but on a lot of complicated and integrated factors like: her/his mental and cognitive maturity, her /his own experience, audio-visual distinguish ,lingual and sensory growth, health and being free of nervous disorders, interest and desire in reading and her/his social and emotion al growth.
The creative reading makes the reader feel unique feeling with the surrounding world; indulging in his reading, sharing human beings and things in their feelings and senses. She/he sees them with special visions; sees by ears, hears by eyes, knows by heart and feels by mind. Also, the imagination which she/he is living during reading time, makes the world and its actions real and unique.
How can we develop the Skills of The Creative Reading?
Prediction and imagination can contribute in achieving creative reading. For example, when you ask a child to stop reading at specific point in the story and ask her/ him to predict with the following events in this story.
Prediction can be useful in order to know how much does this child understand the story which she/he is reading. even though she/he has made a mistake in his prediction ,it’s enough that he has tried to reach to the end.
Creative reading may appear when you ask the child to give another vision about the end of the story and after he has finished reading the story ,also, you can ask her/him about a different vision from his own one.
In addition to that, you can make the creative reading appear in the content of the story itself without need of any change or prediction of the sequence of events till the end of this story.
For instance,You ask a child to play the role of a certain main character, like the character of the hero of the story or any other secondary character in this story.
The presentation of problems in the story with different characters, trying to find solutions to these problems and showing the solutions which the writer himself/herself has introduced.
The summary of the student of the read text or story in few lines.
Also, we can’t overlook the role played by the teacher in developing the skills of the creative reading and his care to make these skills essential to lead the reader to the creative thinking in every thing she/he reads and to make the creative reading a part of his thinking. Also, the required school book is considered an essential base of the educational process. So that, we have to take care of the content of the Arabic books to help in the development of the creative thinking.
