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Approaches to Learning

Promoting Creativity

While reading, discuss other possible scenarios or endings for the story using your toddler's imagination.

WHY IT MATTERS

Storytelling nurtures children’s imagination and creative potential.

Phillips, L. (2000): Storytelling: The Seeds of Children’s Creativity, Australian Journal of Early Childhood 25, no. 3 1–5

Reading stories aloud empowers children with better vocabularies, sentence structure and communication skills, enabling them to share their imaginative and creative ideas better.

Talking about stories and making up stories with children in a playful manner helps expand their social and emotional abilities as they learn vocabulary, and it sparks their imagination and creative thinking abilities.