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Flack, Jerry – Understanding Our Gifted, 2001
This article discusses how creative thinking can be encouraged in students through such classic tools as brainstorming and the productive thinking elements of fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration. It describes how fairy tales can be used to foster these thinking skills and suggests classroom activities. (Contains two references.) (CR)
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Childrens Literature, Cognitive Development, Creative Development
