Thai Kindergarten students’ thinking and communicating skills: Using innovation on texts in gifts from a snail

Abstract

The paper shares the ways in which kindergarten students’ thinking and communicating were apparent while innovating on the text of a story called Gifts from a snail. The participants included 43 kindergarten students who attended KKU Kindergarten Demonstration School, Thailand. The children were first read the story and then were asked to innovate on the text when the teacher asked them if they were a snail what gifts would they prepare for an angel. The students’ were asked to draw a picture of their suggested gift and present their ideas and justifications to the group. The pictures were categorized in order to explain the children’s ideas and thus their communication and thinking skills.