Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?6124715
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 infant each day. From the time he is fairly 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 times and continue to add new ones to the repertoire. Recorded versions can be useful to help develop memory for words and tunes, but most recorded songs and rhymes are much too quick for young children creating their auditory memory and language skills. So, as frequently as possible, sing or say them yourself.
Sing and say the Nursery Rhymes slowly, exaggerating the rhyme and rhythm, with actions 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 essential link in their speech and language development.
Research into language development has shown the essential importance of helping your infant to create good listening and remembering abilities.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many children who have not developed good auditory processing skills (the ability to make sense of sound) and auditory memory skills (remembering exact sounds and words and sentences). This might be for a variety of reasons, including intermittent hearing loss.
These kids find it hard to adhere to instructions. They often do not seem to remember what they are told. Sometimes they have difficulty speaking clearly. Their grammar might be incorrect or they might have difficulty talking in complicated sentences. Then they can find that telling nicely-structured stories is as well hard. Getting their message across to people who do not 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 essential for them to get the words right, and in the correct 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 exact 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.
