Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?3412581
You want your child to be a good talker, right?
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 assist your child create these skills.
Sing or say some of these rhymes to your infant 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 helpful to help create memory for words and tunes, but most recorded songs and rhymes are a lot too fast for young children creating their auditory memory and language abilities. So, as frequently as possible, sing or say them your self.
Sing and say the Nursery Rhymes slowly, 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 essential link in their speech and language development.
Research into language development has shown the essential importance of helping your infant to develop great listening and remembering skills.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many children who have not created great auditory processing abilities (the capability to make sense of sound) and auditory memory skills (remembering exact sounds and words and sentences). This might be for a variety of factors, 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. Sometimes they have difficulty speaking clearly. Their grammar might be incorrect or they might have difficulty talking in complex 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 well can be tough.
Invariably I find that they can't 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.
Kids need endless opportunities to practise language with you. They require to hear lots of words and sentences and they need to hear the 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 fantastic range of vocabulary and endless variations of sentence structure. And toddlers love the silliness.
