Why Teach Your Child Nursery Rhymes?9964117
You want your child to be a great 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 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 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 useful to help create memory for words and tunes, but most recorded songs and rhymes are a lot too fast for young kids creating their auditory memory and language abilities. So, as frequently as feasible, sing or say them yourself.
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 crucial link in their speech and language development.
Research into language development has shown the essential significance of helping your baby to develop great listening and remembering abilities.
As a Speech Pathologist I see many children who have not created great 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, 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. Occasionally they have difficulty speaking clearly. Their grammar might be incorrect or they might have difficulty speaking in complex sentences. Then they can find that telling nicely-structured stories is too hard. Getting their message across to people who do not know them nicely 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.
Children require endless opportunities to practise language with you. They need to hear lots of words and sentences and they require 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 nicely as a great range of vocabulary and endless variations of sentence structure. And toddlers love the silliness.
