Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?543086
You want your child to be a great talker, right?
Before a child can be an superb talker, they require to be able to keep in mind sounds, words, phrases and sentences. Nursery Rhymes are a fabulous and fun way to assist your child develop these abilities.
Sing or say some of these rhymes to your infant each 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 same nursery rhymes many times 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 as well fast for young kids developing their auditory memory and language abilities. So, as often as possible, sing or say them your self.
Sing and say the Nursery Rhymes slowly, exaggerating the rhyme and rhythm, with actions where feasible. 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 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 assisting your baby to create good listening and remembering abilities.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many children who have not developed great auditory processing abilities (the ability to make sense of sound) and auditory memory abilities (remembering precise sounds and words and sentences). This may be for a variety of reasons, such as intermittent hearing loss.
These children find it hard to follow instructions. They frequently do not seem to remember what they are told. Occasionally they have trouble speaking clearly. Their grammar might be incorrect or they may have difficulty speaking in complex sentences. Then they can find that telling well-structured stories is as well hard. Getting their message across to people who do not know them well 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 essential for them to get the words right, and in the right order.
Kids require endless opportunities to practise language with you. They require to hear lots of words and sentences and they require to hear the same ones repeated many occasions.
They also require to comprehend rhyme, so that they can sort and store 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 nicely as a fantastic range of vocabulary and endless variations of sentence structure. And toddlers love the silliness.
