Encouraging Children to Read for Pleasure - the Catalyst for Creativity Part 3 of 3 - How do we enco
Welcome to my final blog in this series on creativity. So far we have established the critical skill our children need in abundance for their future is creativity. We have also found that they are far more creative when they are younger, and over time, this reduces significantly. So how do we ensure that we encourage their natural creativity rather than eliminate it, and in addition, how to help them to develop the 'useful' part of their creative ideas? I believe the answer lies between the covers of a good book. As Holden (2004) observes, reading is a 'creative activity' and Moore et al. 1999 states 'they will need literacy to feed their imaginations'. So if it was as easy as that, then ju
