Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?3126453
You want your child to be a great talker, correct?
Before a child can be an excellent talker, they require to be in a position to remember 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 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 simple actions that he will learn to anticipate.
As he grows, repeat the same nursery rhymes many occasions and continue to add new ones to the repertoire. Recorded versions can be useful to help create memory for words and tunes, but most recorded songs and rhymes are much too quick for young kids creating their auditory memory and language abilities. So, as frequently as feasible, sing or say them your self.
Sing and say the Nursery Rhymes slowly, exaggerating the rhyme and rhythm, with actions exactly where possible. Make the words clear and, when your baby is old enough, 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 crucial link in their speech and language development.
Research into language development has shown the essential importance of assisting your baby to create great listening and remembering skills.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many kids who have not created good auditory processing abilities (the ability 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 follow directions. They often do not seem to remember what they are told. Sometimes they have difficulty speaking clearly. Their grammar may be incorrect or they may have difficulty speaking in complicated sentences. Then they can find that telling well-structured stories is too hard. Getting their message across to people who don't know them well can be tough.
Invariably I find that they cannot tell me Nursery Rhymes, or when they do the words are a bit 'fudged'. It is essential for them to get the words correct, 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 times.
They also require to understand rhyme, so that they can sort and store 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 range of vocabulary and endless variations of sentence structure. And toddlers love the silliness.
