TY - JOUR
AU - TORRANCE, E. PAUL
AB -  .. Questions often spur ideas. Volume 8 Number 1 First Quarter Creative Reading and the Questioning Abilities of Young Children As young children gain practice in the process of encountering puzzling phenomena, they should show definite improvement in the investigative nature of their questioning. Specifically, their queries should reflect more sensitivity to ambiguities and incompleteness in information and more readiness to confront uncertainty. At the same time, the subjects should become less concerned with the obvious - that is, they should ask fewer questions about self-evident points. PROCEDURES The subjects of this study were 150 first-grade childrenmostly from families of middle-and-above income levelenrolled in public elementary school in a suburb of a large Southeastern city. Fifty children (two classes of 25 each) went through the creative reading program for the entire academic year and served as the experimental group, while fifty others (also two classes of 25 each) were involved in a traditional first-grade reading program "and served as the control group. Data were collected on an additional fifty (two further classes of 25) who were involved in another experimental program of highly structured and intensive training in cognitive development with no emphasis on creative development. These last 
TI - Creative Reading and the Questioning Abilities of Young Children *
JF - The Journal of Creative Behavior
DO - 10.1002/j.2162-6057.1974.tb01104.x
DA - 1974-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/creative-reading-and-the-questioning-abilities-of-young-children-1rAh005aRC
SP - 15
VL - 8
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -