The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in the creative factors in five-year-old children's writing in literature and basal based kindergarten classrooms. For these purposes, children's story writings were gathered and analyzed to ass...
The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in the creative factors in five-year-old children's writing in literature and basal based kindergarten classrooms. For these purposes, children's story writings were gathered and analyzed to assess the creative factors in their writing, using the rubric that the researcher developed. The participants in this eight-week study consisted of 50 kindergarteners in two kindergartens, one is using a literature based program and the other using a basal based program, in Pusan and Kimhae, respectively. However, only 47 cases were analyzed for the quantitative part of the study because one kindergartener moved during the research period and two children missed their writing sampling. In brief, the results of data analyses were as follows: a) In the literature based classroom, the children's scores in the literature based classroom significantly increased more than the children's scores in the basal based classroom for fluency (total number of words used), flexibility (adopt new information), and imagination (big change of story and personification). b) The scores of the children in the basal based classroom significantly increased more than the children's scores in the literature based classroom for flexibility (talk as a character or use " ").