Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?7325348
You want your child to be a great talker, correct?
Before a child can be an superb talker, they require to be able to remember sounds, words, phrases and sentences. Nursery Rhymes are a fabulous and fun way to help your child create these abilities.
Sing or say some of these rhymes to your baby every day. From the time he is fairly 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 assist create memory for words and tunes, but most recorded songs and rhymes are much as well fast for young kids creating their auditory memory and language abilities. So, as frequently 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 infant 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 crucial link in their speech and language development.
Research into language development has shown the essential importance of assisting your infant to create good listening and remembering abilities.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many kids who have not developed great auditory processing abilities (the capability to make sense of sound) and auditory memory skills (remembering exact sounds and words and sentences). This may be for a variety of reasons, including intermittent hearing loss.
These children find it hard to follow directions. They frequently do not seem to remember what they are told. Occasionally they have trouble speaking clearly. Their grammar might be incorrect or they might have difficulty speaking in complex sentences. Then they can find that telling nicely-structured stories is too hard. Getting their message across to individuals who don't know them well can be difficult.
Invariably I find that they can't 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.
Kids require endless opportunities to practise language with you. They need to hear lots of words and sentences and they need to hear the exact 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 nicely as a fantastic variety of vocabulary and endless variations of sentence structure. And toddlers love the silliness.
