Enhancing self-confidence through creative reading and writing activities in primary school

This paper aims to highlight the effectiveness of creative reading and writing in enhancing students" self-confidence in primary school. It includes a survey, which was conducted during the academic year 2023-2024 in primary schools in Greece and in which 1020 students and 71 teachers participated. The students were divided into two groups: Intervention group, which included students who applied creative reading and writing activities, having as a stimulus a variety of textual genres and textual types, and Control group, which included students who did not participate in the aforementioned activities and followed the school curriculum. This research/intervention project was approximately four months long and the evaluation was achieved through an impromptu weighted questionnaire. The results, which showed a positive correlation between creative reading/writing and students" self-esteem in primary school, are presented and analysed in the paper.