Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?7464935
You want your child to be a great 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 help your child create these skills.
Sing or say some of these rhymes to your baby 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 simple actions that he will learn to anticipate.
As he grows, repeat the same nursery rhymes many times and continue to add new ones to the repertoire. Recorded versions can be helpful to help develop memory for words and tunes, but most recorded songs and rhymes are a lot as well quick for young kids developing their auditory memory and language skills. So, as frequently 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 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 crucial importance of helping your infant to create good listening and remembering skills.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many children who have not developed 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, including intermittent hearing loss.
These kids find it hard to adhere to instructions. They often 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 speaking 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 nicely 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 require 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 occasions.
They also require to understand 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 well as a great range of vocabulary and endless variations of sentence structure. And toddlers love the silliness.
