Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?8326398
You want your child to be a good talker, right?
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 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 too quick for young children creating their auditory memory and language skills. So, as often as possible, sing or say them yourself.
Sing and say the Nursery Rhymes gradually, 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 infant 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 significance of assisting your baby to create good listening and remembering skills.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many kids who have not developed great auditory processing skills (the ability to make sense of sound) and auditory memory skills (remembering precise sounds and words and sentences). This may be for a variety of factors, including intermittent hearing loss.
These kids find it hard to follow directions. They often do not seem to keep in mind what they are told. Occasionally they have difficulty speaking clearly. Their grammar might be incorrect or they might have difficulty speaking in complex sentences. Then they can find that telling well-structured stories is too hard. Getting their message across to individuals who don't know them nicely 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 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 need to hear the same ones repeated many times.
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 great range of vocabulary and endless variations of sentence structure. And toddlers love the silliness.
