Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?3409861
You want your child to be a good talker, right?
Before a child can be an superb talker, they need to be able to keep in mind sounds, words, phrases and sentences. Nursery Rhymes are a fabulous and fun way to help your child develop these skills.
Sing or say some of these rhymes to your baby 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 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 a lot too quick for young children creating their auditory memory and language abilities. So, as often as feasible, sing or say them your self.
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 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 essential significance of assisting your baby to develop good listening and remembering abilities.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many children who have not created good auditory processing abilities (the ability to make sense of sound) and auditory memory skills (remembering exact sounds and words and sentences). This might be for a variety of factors, including intermittent hearing loss.
These kids find it hard to adhere to instructions. They often do not seem to remember what they are told. Sometimes 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 nicely-structured stories is too hard. Getting their message across to people who don't 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 essential for them to get the words right, and in the correct order.
Children need endless opportunities to practise language with you. They require to hear lots of words and sentences and they require to hear the same ones repeated many occasions.
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 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.
