Creativity and its relationship with intelligence and reading skills in children: an exploratory study

Abstract

Creativity, intelligence, and reading skills such as phonological awareness and decoding in reading can be critical to academic success, especially during childhood. Thus, this study aimed to characterize creativity, intelligence, phonological awareness, and reading decoding and verify possible relationships between creativity and these skills. The sample consisted of 75 children divided between the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades of municipal public schools in the Brazilian context. The results indicated the gradual evolution of creativity, intelligence, phonological awareness, and reading decoding in children from the 1st to the 3rd year, especially for the performance of the 3rd year. Correlations between creativity with intelligence and reading skills were also evidenced for all three classes, with the 3rd year with stronger correlations, which are promising results for these relationships. The study of creativity is still a recent field for empirical investigations and deserves future investigations for a better understanding of these constructs in this population.

The Effect of Teacher Scaffolding and Peer-Scaffolding on Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Ability

“…Through structured learning with scaffolding, students will use more time to study and achieve goals more effectively. Teacher scaffold and friend scaffold proved to be effective in improving reading comprehension and vocabulary mastery (Bezerra et al, 2022;Tarchi, 2017). The traits and behaviors produced through scaffolding are able to facilitate the acquisition of reading comprehension skills and better vocabulary mastery.…”

“…Scaffolding and zones of proximal development can be effective in improving students' abilities if these scaffolds are able to encourage students' abilities and provide students with provisions to improve their own abilities. A good and effective scaffold based on Vygotsky's ZPD theory is a scaffold that is able to make students learn a lot through scaffolding (Bezerra et al, 2022;Martins & Capellini, 2021). Social interaction becomes a very important factor in the learning process when scaffolding is used.…”

Effect of family and peer tutoring programs on reading comprehension skills

“…This main component is contained in each activity designed in the peer learning method. Some of the components that must appear in this method, namely, the task of each individual in conducting peer learning must be clear, encourage active interaction, help each other to achieve common goals, encourage social skills, work in groups and correct each other's shortcomings with the aim of a better direction (Bezerra et al, 2022;Maguet et al, 2021). These components describe the peer learning method is included in the cooperative learning method.…”

Mental Representations as The Students’ Academic Success Predictor

“…General (i.e. intelligence, creativity) (Bezerra, Alves and Azoni, 2022) and specific (speed of information processing, memory, thinking, attention, imagination and speech) cognitive predictors determine academic success at the beginning of studying as well as at other stages of getting education. These predictors define abilities to establish logical connections and to identify what is critically important and what is merely a detail (Larkina, 2021;Postavnev et al, 2020).…”