Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?3193647
You want your child to be a good 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 assist your child develop these abilities.
Sing or say some of these rhymes to your infant each 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 useful to help create memory for words and tunes, but most recorded songs and rhymes are much too fast for young children creating their auditory memory and language abilities. So, as often as feasible, sing or say them yourself.
Sing and say the Nursery Rhymes slowly, exaggerating the rhyme and rhythm, with actions exactly 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 essential link in their speech and language development.
Research into language development has shown the essential importance of helping your baby to develop great listening and remembering skills.
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 abilities (remembering exact sounds and words and sentences). This might be for a variety of reasons, including intermittent hearing loss.
These children find it hard to adhere to instructions. They often don't seem to remember what they are told. Occasionally they have trouble speaking clearly. Their grammar might be incorrect or they might have difficulty talking in complex sentences. Then they can find that telling nicely-structured stories is too 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 right order.
Children 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 need to understand rhyme, so that they can sort and shop 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 well as a great variety of vocabulary and endless variations of sentence structure. And toddlers love the silliness.
