THE VERBAL CREATIVITY DEVELOPMENT OF PRESCHOOLERS (ILLUSTRATED BY THE EXAMPLE OF FOLK TALES ABOUT ANIMALS)
The paper shows the importance of verbal creativity in contemporary preschool educational institutions. The subject of study is the development process of verbal creativity of preschoolers by means of thinking up stories about animals. Here the goal is to describe work content of successful developing of verbal creativity. The verbal creativity is interpreted in narrow sense – thinking up stories by children. The author defines the folk work (the Russian folk tale about animals) like the groundwork of the verbal creativity. The advantage gained using folk tales about animals for verbal creativity progress is pointed out in this paper. The author also presents diagnostic technique data to test the rate of progress in composing stories by preschoolers, analyses the children creative works, specifies the reasons of mistakes and defects. There are three major components to develop the verbal creativity: to accumulate knowledge of unknown tales, the linguistic and compositional text analyses, the inventing stories by children. The pedagogical methods in developing verbal creativity are listed in the paper. As the author notes the creative works should be introduced stepwise. The actual pedagogical methods are used by the author in her own interpretation. The verbal work of preschoolers is illustrated by the lesson example: the word selection, description of characters, identification of the action order, story continuing. The paper may be of value to practicing teachers.