| There are several benefits to nursery rhyme | | | | other skills. Take an ordinary nursery rhyme and |
| activities. Nursery rhymes will teach your child | | | | turn it into a nursery rhyme game. When you and |
| auditory skills and help them develop an | | | | your child read, sing, play, and act out nursery |
| appreciation for rhyme and rhythm. Nursery | | | | rhymes together, you are learning together that |
| rhymes also help children develop their memory | | | | reading is fun and words are fun. The best way |
| and other cognitive skills. | | | | to promote healthy reading habits to your children |
| Many studies have been conducted to determine | | | | is to have them yourself. Show your child how |
| the effectiveness of nursery rhymes. The studies | | | | important reading is by spending time with them |
| have shown that nursery rhymes will help children | | | | each day reading nursery rhymes. |
| who have difficulties learning to read and | | | | Another benefit of them is that they teach |
| recognize words that rhyme. Preschools and even | | | | children humor. Children learn to develop and |
| day care centers place importance on rhymes | | | | understand what humor is because of nursery |
| and familiarizing children with them on a daily basis. | | | | rhymes. They also promote mathematical skills. |
| Nursery rhyme activities allow children to develop | | | | Several nursery rhymes have mathematical |
| auditory memory skills because they work hard | | | | reasoning involved such as counting, height, |
| to remember the words of rhymes, songs, and | | | | measurement, time, weather, volume, position, |
| poems. Begin teaching your child nursery rhymes | | | | and temperature. During your time reading |
| at a young age to help them as they learn how | | | | nursery rhymes with your children, take a few |
| to speak. It has been stated by several | | | | minutes to go over some mathematical skills. For |
| researchers that the golden age for learning is | | | | example, you could ask your child questions like; |
| ages six through nine. During this age frame, | | | | "How many blind mice were there?" There are |
| children can memorize more quickly and | | | | also other vocabulary skills they learn from |
| remember for longer than any other time in their | | | | reading and listening to nursery rhymes. |
| lives. This is why it is important to teach them | | | | Several nursery rhymes teach motor and |
| nursery rhymes before they reach this age | | | | coordination skills to your child. When you read |
| because it will help them build upon existing skills. | | | | nursery rhymes, have your child engage in finger |
| Nursery rhyme activities also promote excellent | | | | play or clapping during the nursery rhyme reading. |
| listening skills. Listening skills are necessary in order | | | | Nursery rhymes engage your child's imagination |
| to learn. Take time out of your busy schedule and | | | | and teach them to have a vivid imagination filled |
| read to your child; it will help them make progress | | | | with colorful characters and different languages. It |
| toward reading someday. | | | | is exciting to children to read about people that |
| Another great benefit of rhymes is that they | | | | live in shoes or eggs that behave as people and |
| promote word pictures. Several nursery rhyme | | | | sit on walls. It is unique for a child to think that a |
| books are filled with different pictures and images | | | | cow can jump over a moon or that a cat could |
| that allow your child to engage their creativity. | | | | play a fiddle. There is a reason why rhymes have |
| The pictures found in books also help to activate | | | | survived the test of time and are still around. |
| awareness for certain objects and other things | | | | Nursery rhymes are a great way to teach your |
| when they see them. | | | | child needed skills and they are a wonderful way |
| Nursery activities also promote acting skills and | | | | to spend time with your child. |