Criatividade, inteligência e habilidades de leitura em crianças em fase de alfabetização

Abstract

The creativity has been the focus of studies in different contexts, utilized as a facilitator skill of necessary competencies in the routine of individuals. In the process of learning, it can be ascertained how it relates to other skills, like intelligence and the ability to read, skills that are very important to the academic success. The general objective of the study consisted in explore the creativity, the intelligence, the phonological awareness and the reader decoding abilities of kids from the elementary School. The study characterized itself as exploratory, quantitively and cross-sectional, counting with 75 children divided in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades of the municipal schools from Natal/RN. It evaluated intelligence, creativity, phonological awareness and the reader decoding using the following instruments: Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI), Brazilian figural Creativity Test (TCFI), Sequential Evaluation Instrument (CONFIAS) and the Isolated Words and Pseudowords Evaluation (LPI). The results in the intelligence and creativity showed no significant difference in the statistics between classes. The same can not be said for the other categories (phonological awareness and the reader decoding) that presented a significant statistic difference, showing the best performance from the children of the 3rd grade. There was a strong correlation between the TCFI and the WASI, specially from the 1st and 3rd grades. TCFI, CONFIAS e LPI showed the same correlation coming from the 3rd grade only. With that study, we can verify the importance of the aspects of creativity, intelligence and phonological awareness in the kids that are in literacy and the relation between them, specially from children with low income. It is about of a underexplored field that deserves further investigations to better understand these population constructs.