Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?7202393
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 remember sounds, words, phrases and sentences. Nursery Rhymes are a fabulous and fun way to help your child develop 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 easy actions that he will learn to anticipate.
As he grows, repeat the exact same nursery rhymes many times and continue to add new ones to the repertoire. Recorded versions can be useful to assist create memory for words and tunes, but most recorded songs and rhymes are much too quick for young children creating their auditory memory and language skills. So, as frequently as possible, sing or say them yourself.
Sing and say the Nursery Rhymes gradually, exaggerating the rhyme and rhythm, with actions exactly where possible. 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 essential 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 created good 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 reasons, including intermittent hearing loss.
These children find it hard to follow instructions. They often don't seem to remember what they are told. Occasionally they have difficulty speaking clearly. Their grammar might be incorrect or they might have difficulty talking in complicated sentences. Then they can find that telling well-structured stories is as well hard. Obtaining their message across to individuals who don't know them nicely can be difficult.
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 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 need to hear the exact same ones repeated many occasions.
They also need to comprehend rhyme, so that they can sort and store 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 great range of vocabulary and endless variations of sentence structure. And toddlers love the silliness.
