Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?2314278
You want your child to be a great talker, right?
Before a child can be an superb talker, they require to be in a position to keep in mind sounds, words, phrases and sentences. Nursery Rhymes are a fabulous and fun way to help your child create these skills.
Sing or say some of these rhymes to your baby 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 times and continue to add new ones to the repertoire. Recorded versions can be useful to assist create memory for words and tunes, but most recorded songs and rhymes are much too fast 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 possible. Make the words clear and, when your infant is old enough, encourage him to join in or fill in some of the words. Have lots of fun interacting with your infant 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 significance of helping your infant to develop good listening and remembering abilities.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many children who have not created good auditory processing skills (the ability to make sense of sound) and auditory memory skills (remembering exact sounds and words and sentences). This may be for a variety of factors, such as intermittent hearing loss.
These children find it hard to follow directions. They frequently don't seem to keep in mind what they are told. Sometimes they have trouble speaking clearly. Their grammar may be incorrect or they may have difficulty speaking in complex sentences. Then they can find that telling well-structured stories is too hard. Obtaining their message across to people who don't know them nicely can be difficult.
Invariably I find that they cannot tell me Nursery Rhymes, or when they do the words are a bit 'fudged'. It is important for them to get the words right, and in the correct order.
Children require 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 require to understand rhyme, so that they can sort and shop words in their brain and to manipulate sounds in a way that will assist them to learn to read later. Of course, Nursery Rhymes are full of rhymes and plays on words, as well as a fantastic range of vocabulary and endless variations of sentence structure. And toddlers love the silliness.
