The impact of employing the thinker's keys strategies on the development of preschoolers' critical and creative thinking toward emergent literacy learning

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The main purpose of the recent study was to show the influence of using thinker's keys strategies on developing preschoolers‘ critical and creative thinking toward emergent literacy learning in one of Early Childhood centre in the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

The current study takes the form of investigating the progress outcomes for preschoolers' emergent literacy learning indictors including (language, literacy attitudes, making meaning, concept about print and symbols and writing).

The experimental group included 37 females and 23 males' students, who were taught to follow the thinker's keys strategies.

This study is highlighting the importance of developing preschoolers‘ critical and creative thinking.

Results: The results from this study revealed the significance of using the thinker's keys strategies in enhancing preschoolers' critical and creative thinking.

Conclusions/significance: This study is investigating the thinker's keys strategies and its impact on the development of preschoolers' critical and creative thinking which has a great impact on their emergent literacy outcomes.

Furthermore, result evident the positive impact of thinker's keys strategies on the level of intelligence of preschoolers in the future and help them to use their capabilities face problems and resolve it.

Moreover, noticeable improvement is evident in all preschoolers' progress outcomes including their emergent literacy indictors in the classroom.

Overall, promoting and empowering students' critical and creative thinking skills is considered a vital goal.

Implementation: Creative thinking enables high-achieving students to recognize their problems and emotions and to express them accordingly