Preschool Nursery Rhymes5256022
As a child I loved to read nursery rhymes. I believed the stories were simple, fun, and simple to learn. They were one of the first books I learned to read. Now as a preschool teacher I understand the value of teaching young kids these rhymes. It introduces them to rhyming, simple parts of a story such as trigger and impact, characters, setting, and plot. They are also extremely catchy.
Preschool nursery rhymes introduce kids to rhyming which is one of the building blocks to reading. If a child learns to rhyme at a young age, they will be able to recognize word households when they begin to learn phonics. They will understand that word chunks that have the same sound often have similar spelling. This will assist them decode words quickly and build fluency.
Mother Goose rhymes use familiar components of a story such as character, setting, and plot. Introducing young children to components of a story will help them build comprehension skills. This will help them organize their thoughts, so they will keep in mind the story better. They will learn they can find components of a story even in much more complicated literature.
These brief poems also use more complicated components of a story such as trigger and effect and problem and solution. Children can find many situations of trigger and impact in these brief stories. For example in the Nursery Rhyme Jack and Jill. Jack fell down is the trigger. And broke his crown is the impact. An additional example is in the Nursery Rhyme Small Bo Peep. The trigger is her sheep are lost and the impact is she has to find them.
In these short stories characters are also offered a issue they should solve. Many of the answer are tragic such as Humpty Dumpty and Jack and Jill however, kids will discover a good story as a issue and answer.
Nursery Rhymes are engaging. Anybody who has ever sat with a child knows that they have a hard time focusing on one activity for a long time. These brief stories are the right length for a child's attention span. Nursery Rhymes are also fun and easy to keep in mind. They are simple stories with rhyme and rhythm. That make them hard to neglect. They are full of suspense. Your child will wonder what occurs subsequent following Humpty Dumpty falls off the wall and Jack and Jill fall down the hill, or Old Mother Hubbard goes to a cupboard that is bare.
