Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?4224214
You want your child to be a great talker, right?
Before a child can be an excellent talker, they need to be in a position 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 baby every day. From the time he is quite 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 occasions 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 much too quick for young kids developing their auditory memory and language skills. So, as frequently 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 infant 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 helping your infant to develop good listening and remembering abilities.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many kids who have not developed great auditory processing abilities (the capability to make sense of sound) and auditory memory skills (remembering exact sounds and words and sentences). This may be for a variety of reasons, such as intermittent hearing loss.
These kids find it hard to follow instructions. They frequently do not seem to remember what they are told. Sometimes they have trouble speaking clearly. Their grammar may be incorrect or they might have difficulty talking in complex sentences. Then they can find that telling nicely-structured stories is as well hard. Obtaining their message across to people who don't know them nicely can be tough.
Invariably I find that they cannot tell 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 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 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 variety of vocabulary and endless variations of sentence structure. And toddlers love the silliness.
