Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?1227528
You want your child to be a great talker, right?
Before a child can be an excellent 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 create 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 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 a lot too quick for young kids creating their auditory memory and language skills. So, as often as possible, sing or say them yourself.
Sing and say the Nursery Rhymes gradually, exaggerating the rhyme and rhythm, with actions exactly where feasible. 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 crucial link in their speech and language development.
Research into language development has shown the crucial significance of assisting your infant to create good listening and remembering abilities.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many kids who have not created good auditory processing abilities (the capability to make sense of sound) and auditory memory abilities (remembering precise sounds and words and sentences). This may be for a variety of reasons, such as intermittent hearing loss.
These children find it hard to follow instructions. They frequently don't seem to keep in mind what they are told. Occasionally they have trouble speaking clearly. Their grammar might be incorrect or they may have difficulty talking in complicated sentences. Then they can find that telling nicely-structured stories is as well hard. Obtaining their message across to individuals who do not 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 right order.
Kids require 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 times.
They also require 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 great range of vocabulary and endless variations of sentence structure. And toddlers love the silliness.
