Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?4524432
You want your child to be a great talker, right?
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 assist your child develop these skills.
Sing or say some of these rhymes to your infant each 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 same nursery rhymes many times and continue to add new ones to the repertoire. Recorded versions can be helpful to help develop memory for words and tunes, but most recorded songs and rhymes are much as well fast for young children creating their auditory memory and language skills. So, as often as feasible, sing or say them yourself.
Sing and say the Nursery Rhymes slowly, exaggerating the rhyme and rhythm, with actions where possible. Make the words clear and, when your infant is old sufficient, 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 helping your infant to create great listening and remembering abilities.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many kids who have not developed good auditory processing skills (the capability to make sense of sound) and auditory memory skills (remembering precise sounds and words and sentences). This might be for a variety of reasons, including intermittent hearing loss.
These children find it hard to follow directions. They frequently do not seem to remember what they are told. Sometimes they have trouble speaking clearly. Their grammar might be incorrect or they might have difficulty talking in complicated sentences. Then they can find that telling nicely-structured stories is too hard. Obtaining their message across to people who do not know them well can be difficult.
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 right, and in the right order.
Kids need endless opportunities to practise language with you. They require to hear lots of words and sentences and they need to hear the exact same ones repeated many times.
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 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.
