THE ROLE OF RIDDLES IN THEFORMATION OF CHILDRENS THINKING

Abstract

During the genre of folklore, riddles have a particular appeal. Riddles are intellectual games that are brought to life through mutual cognitive engagement between the speaker and the listener.
This article highlights the distinctive features of this genre and the topics it covers. Additionally, the role of riddles in the intellectual development of children is discussed. Despite their small size and easy memorization, riddles are very suitable for children's interests. Examples of riddles serve as a significant tool for stimulating the thinking process, analyzing and synthesizing facts and events, and identifying different and similar aspects. Solving riddles encourages research, enhances children's worldviews, develops reasoning and comparison skills, and contributes to the formation of analytical thinking. The article also emphasizes the importance of using riddles as teaching material in elementary classrooms. During the research, the statistics of the use of riddles in Azerbaijani language textbooks in primary school were studied, and the results were compared with the indicators of the first textbooks created.