Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?1892620
You want your child to be a great talker, right?
Before a child can be an excellent talker, they need to be able to keep in mind sounds, words, phrases and sentences. Nursery Rhymes are a fabulous and fun way to assist your child create these skills.
Sing or say some of these rhymes to your infant every day. From the time he is quite small, he will show that he recognises and enjoys the familiar patterns of sound and rhythm. Add easy actions that he will learn to anticipate.
As he grows, repeat the exact same nursery rhymes many occasions and continue to add new ones to the repertoire. Recorded versions can be helpful to help create memory for words and tunes, but most recorded songs and rhymes are much too quick for young kids developing their auditory memory and language abilities. So, as frequently as feasible, sing or say them your self.
Sing and say the Nursery Rhymes gradually, exaggerating the rhyme and rhythm, with actions exactly where feasible. Make the words clear and, when your baby is old sufficient, encourage him to join in or fill in some of the words. Have lots of fun interacting with your baby with these rhymes and songs, as this sharing will be a essential link in their speech and language development.
Research into language development has shown the crucial importance of helping your baby to develop good listening and remembering skills.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many kids who have not developed good auditory processing abilities (the capability to make sense of sound) and auditory memory abilities (remembering exact sounds and words and sentences). This might be for a variety of factors, such as intermittent hearing loss.
These children find it hard to adhere to instructions. They often do not seem to keep in mind what they are told. Occasionally they have trouble speaking clearly. Their grammar might be incorrect or they might have difficulty talking in complex sentences. Then they can find that telling nicely-structured stories is too hard. Getting their message across to individuals who do not know them well can be tough.
Invariably I find that they can't inform me Nursery Rhymes, or when they do the words are a bit 'fudged'. It is essential for them to get the words right, and in the right order.
Children need endless opportunities to practise language with you. They need to hear lots of words and sentences and they need to hear the same ones repeated many occasions.
They also need to comprehend rhyme, so that they can sort and shop words in their brain and to manipulate sounds in a way that will help them to learn to read later. Of course, Nursery Rhymes are full of rhymes and plays on words, as well as a fantastic variety of vocabulary and endless variations of sentence structure. And toddlers love the silliness.
