Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?1534882
You want your child to be a great talker, right?
Before a child can be an superb talker, they need to be able 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 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 easy 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 assist develop memory for words and tunes, but most recorded songs and rhymes are a lot too fast for young kids creating their auditory memory and language skills. So, as often as possible, sing or say them your self.
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 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 crucial importance of assisting your baby to develop great listening and remembering skills.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many children who have not created good auditory processing abilities (the capability to make sense of sound) and auditory memory abilities (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 adhere to directions. 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 speaking in complex sentences. Then they can find that telling nicely-structured stories is as well hard. Obtaining their message across to individuals who don't know them well 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 important for them to get the words right, and in the correct order.
Kids need endless opportunities to practise language with you. They require to hear lots of words and sentences and they need to hear the exact same ones repeated many times.
They also need to understand 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 well as a fantastic range of vocabulary and endless variations of sentence structure. And toddlers love the silliness.
