Creativity From Chaos

Creativity some times comes from not knowing enough and you really screw with the established rules and end up discovering something with out knowing it. Julia is one of my students in 5th grade and she struggles with spelling, reading, writing, in fact if  you can name it she struggles with it. Today in class we played boggle ( you take one big word and use the letters from it to make other words ) and instead of looking for words that she knew, Julia just used the basic rules of word construction and smashed random combinations of vowels and consonants together not knowing if they were words at all. In the end she was so quick with basic combinations that she came up with more unique words than I did in the time frame that was given. She beat the class 15 to 3. I hope that this victory gives her the motivation to step up her game and improve her English.