Preschool Nursery Rhymes4055749
As a child I loved to read nursery rhymes. I believed the stories were simple, fun, and easy to learn. They had been one of the first books I discovered to read. Now as a preschool teacher I understand the worth of teaching young kids these rhymes. It introduces them to rhyming, easy components of a story such as trigger and effect, characters, setting, and plot. They are also extremely catchy.
Preschool nursery rhymes introduce kids to rhyming which is one of the building blocks to reading. If a child learns to rhyme at a young age, they will be in a position to recognize word households when they start to learn phonics. They will understand that word chunks that have the exact same sound frequently have similar spelling. This will help them decode words quickly and develop fluency.
Mother Goose rhymes use familiar parts of a story such as character, setting, and plot. Introducing young children to parts of a story will help them develop comprehension abilities. This will help them organize their thoughts, so they will keep in mind the story better. They will learn they can find components of a story even in much more complex literature.
These short poems also use more complicated components of a story including cause and impact and problem and solution. Kids can find many situations of trigger and effect in these brief stories. For instance in the Nursery Rhyme Jack and Jill. Jack fell down is the trigger. And broke his crown is the effect. Another example is in the Nursery Rhyme Little Bo Peep. The trigger is her sheep are lost and the effect is she has to find them.
In these brief stories characters are also offered a problem they should resolve. Many of the solution are tragic such as Humpty Dumpty and Jack and Jill however, kids will discover a good story as a problem and answer.
Nursery Rhymes are engaging. Anybody who has ever sat with a child knows that they have a hard time focusing on one activity for a long time. These brief stories are the right length for a child's attention span. Nursery Rhymes are also fun and simple to keep in mind. They are easy stories with rhyme and rhythm. That make them hard to neglect. They are full of suspense. Your child will wonder what occurs next following Humpty Dumpty falls off the wall and Jack and Jill fall down the hill, or Old Mother Hubbard goes to a cupboard that is bare.
