Children's stories and their impact on developing children's imagination
It is known that there are many factors behind the construction of a child's personality. Chief among these factors is the type of culture he receives in his early childhood years
If we accept this, then we cannot overlook the role played by the child-oriented story that forms the backbone of children's literature and culture.
The story, as you know, is one of the means of psychological, mental and cultural construction of the child, and it is one of the important means in instilling effective values in building the personality of the child, it is an art full of beauty, it communicates knowledge in an interesting way for the child, and gives him everything he desires from imagination. And you gain a lot of positive tendencies and trends.
The story also played a major role in education, through which children can be taught various types of knowledge and sciences. The method of teaching stories is one of the well-known and followed teaching methods in many lessons and even scientific ones.
Children's stories differ in terms of content and output according to the age stages, so what is offered to a kindergarten child is definitely different from what is offered to a child in the primary school stage who can read by himself. It also differs from what is offered to boys or the late stages of childhood. Therefore, the children's writer must be aware and take into account the age to which he is addressing.
There are types of stories written for children including animal stories, religious stories, historical and scientific stories, poetry stories, science stories, science fiction stories, fairy tales, and others.
The importance of superstitious stories that adults read to children or see to them is evident provided that they contain positive moral and social implications, and that they are far from everything that raises fear and fear in the child, as well as the importance of adults listening to the fictional stories that children tell about themselves and their peers, or about The adults who are supervising their upbringing.
Fairy stories play an effective role in refining or refining the child's feelings, developing his creativity and expanding his knowledge. It also plays a very dangerous role from an educational point of view in inculcating the spirit of good citizenship, cultivating manners and instilling good social qualities in the hearts of children, such as honesty, love of benevolence and cooperation. Good habits are also effective in language development.
Modern educational studies have shown that learners who are characterized by linguistic or verbal intelligence love to read poetry, tell stories, and have a great ability to remember names, places, and dates.
