Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?6778797
You want your child to be a good talker, correct?
Before a child can be an superb talker, they require to be able to keep in mind sounds, words, phrases and sentences. Nursery Rhymes are a fabulous and fun way to help your child create these skills.
Sing or say some of these rhymes to your infant 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 helpful to assist develop memory for words and tunes, but most recorded songs and rhymes are much as well quick for young children developing 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 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 infant with these rhymes and songs, as this sharing will be a essential link in their speech and language development.
Research into language development has shown the crucial significance of helping your baby to develop great listening and remembering abilities.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many kids who have not developed good auditory processing skills (the ability to make sense of sound) and auditory memory skills (remembering precise sounds and words and sentences). This may be for a variety of factors, including intermittent hearing loss.
These children find it hard to adhere to directions. They often do not seem to remember what they are told. Occasionally they have trouble speaking clearly. Their grammar might be incorrect or they might have difficulty speaking in complex sentences. Then they can find that telling well-structured stories is as well hard. Getting their message across to people who do not know them well 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 important for them to get the words right, and in the correct order.
Children need endless opportunities to practise language with you. They need to hear lots of words and sentences and they require to hear the exact 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.
