Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?3269914
You want your child to be a good talker, correct?
Before a child can be an excellent talker, they require to be in a position to keep in mind sounds, words, phrases and sentences. Nursery Rhymes are a fabulous and fun way to assist your child develop these skills.
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 useful to help create memory for words and tunes, but most recorded songs and rhymes are much too fast for young children developing their auditory memory and language abilities. So, as frequently as feasible, sing or say them your self.
Sing and say the Nursery Rhymes gradually, exaggerating the rhyme and rhythm, with actions exactly where feasible. Make the words clear and, when your baby is old enough, 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 significance of helping your infant to develop great listening and remembering skills.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many kids who have not developed great auditory processing abilities (the ability to make sense of sound) and auditory memory skills (remembering exact sounds and words and sentences). This may be for a variety of factors, including intermittent hearing loss.
These children find it hard to follow directions. They often don't seem to keep in mind what they are told. Occasionally they have trouble speaking clearly. Their grammar might be incorrect or they may have difficulty talking in complex sentences. Then they can find that telling well-structured stories is too hard. Obtaining their message across to people who do not know them nicely can be tough.
Invariably I find that they can't inform me Nursery Rhymes, or when they do the words are a bit 'fudged'. It is important 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 same ones repeated many occasions.
They also need to understand rhyme, so that they can sort and store 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 nicely as a great variety of vocabulary and endless variations of sentence structure. And toddlers love the silliness.
