Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?9015015
You want your child to be a great talker, right?
Before a child can be an excellent talker, they require to be able to keep in mind 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 infant 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 simple actions that he will learn to anticipate.
As he grows, repeat the exact same nursery rhymes many times 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 fast for young kids developing 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 exactly where possible. Make the words clear and, when your infant 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 importance of helping your infant to create good listening and remembering abilities.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many kids who have not created good auditory processing skills (the ability to make sense of sound) and auditory memory skills (remembering precise sounds and words and sentences). This might be for a variety of reasons, such as intermittent hearing loss.
These children find it hard to adhere to instructions. They often do not seem to remember what they are told. Occasionally they have trouble 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 as well hard. Obtaining their message across to people who do not know them well can be tough.
Invariably I find that they cannot inform 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 right order.
Children need 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 need to comprehend rhyme, so that they can sort and shop 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 range of vocabulary and endless variations of sentence structure. And toddlers love the silliness.
