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Children learn from riddles

Children learn from riddles It shows that children who are trained to understand and solve riddles improve markedly in text comprehension. The study also shows that children who have an appreciation of higher-level riddles have a higher comprehension of text. He group that studied riddles performed significantly higher on comprehension tests when compared to the control group. Along with the ability to solve and understand riddles, the ability to create riddles is beneficial to a child's comprehension and creativity. The same studies as mentioned prior have also tested children's abilities to create their own riddles. One study performed at stanford university shows positive results for the relationship between children creating puns and riddles and their creativity. For children to create their own puns and riddles they must be able to reason on a higher level than they usually do. They must be able to identify that several paths of logic can have several different meanings