Why are Nursery Rhymes/Songs Important for a Childs Development?
First and foremost, children get “hooked” on listening to language, and they also learn valuable skills. Children learn the patterns and rhythms of their language, how words can be put together in a fun musical way.Patterns are very important for early reading and for math. Reading specialists have advised that a child’s ability to discriminate and create rhyming words, as well as their internal sense of rhythm,are closely related to early reading ability. A child who has absorbed over and over through the ears and not the eyes – such common rhymes as “fun, sun, run” or “fiddle, diddle, middle” as well as the melody of their language, is statistically destined to have an easier time learning to read. In the same way, songs incorporating rhythm are an important teaching tool. Even before they are born, babies are comforted by the rhythms of their mothers’ bodies. After birth, rhythm continues to be a comfort. Early in life infants learn to respond to music by moving their bodies and swa
