Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?1203942
You want your child to be a great talker, correct?
Before a child can be an excellent talker, they need 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 abilities.
Sing or say some of these rhymes to your baby every day. From the time he is fairly small, he will show that he recognises and enjoys the familiar patterns of sound and rhythm. Add simple 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 assist develop memory for words and tunes, but most recorded songs and rhymes are a lot too quick for young children developing their auditory memory and language skills. So, as frequently as possible, sing or say them your self.
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 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 essential link in their speech and language development.
Research into language development has shown the essential significance of assisting your baby to create good listening and remembering skills.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many children who have not developed great auditory processing skills (the capability to make sense of sound) and auditory memory skills (remembering precise sounds and words and sentences). This may be for a variety of factors, including 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 difficulty speaking clearly. Their grammar may be incorrect or they may have difficulty talking in complicated sentences. Then they can find that telling nicely-structured stories is too hard. Obtaining their message across to individuals who do not know them well can be tough.
Invariably I find that they can't inform 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 need to hear lots of words and sentences and they need to hear the exact same ones repeated many times.
They also require 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 nicely as a great variety of vocabulary and endless variations of sentence structure. And toddlers love the silliness.
