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Rhythm & Rhyme

Making rhythm and rhyme a part of your child's life will have a tremendous impact on your child's speech, literacy, reasoning, physical, emotional, and social development. Simply introducing your child to preschool songs, preschool poems, and nursery rhymes can have a lasting impact on the way your child learns and develops.

There are so many benefits to bringing music, rhyme, and rhythm into your young child's life that now you can understand why so many early childhood education programs emphasize music. Plus it has the added advantage of being fun for you and your child. And the best part is that there is no age threshold. You can begin working rhythm and rhyme into your child's life at birth (or even before)!

Both scientists and educators are realizing that early, positive musical experience is uniquely effective in helping children achieve their full potential intellectually, artistically and emotionally.Simply using music on a regular basis with your child, including singing, listening to music, and playing instruments, can reap tremendous benefits. It is important to note that simply listening to music is not enough. Making music is more powerful for children than just listening. It is important for you to provide your child with a solid early childhood education experience that you won't have to trust to chance but it is even more important to foster a love of learning!

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Why is rhythm and rhyme important? 

Benefits of music, rhythm and rhyme

Research consistently demonstrates that the more children know about language and literacy before they arrive at school, the better equipped they are to succeed in reading.

The key elements of this include:

* Motivation to learn
* Oral language skills
* Phonological awareness
* Appreciation for literate forms
* Print awareness
* Letter knowledge.

Learning rhythm and rhyme through poems and songs can provide children with crucial experience in all these areas.

For example, you probably never thought learning movement songs can help improve your child's vocabulary and offer preparation for future reading.

How?

Movement songs help children gain an understanding of concepts such as up/down, front/back, and left/right, and add these words to their vocabularies. Understanding these concepts leads to knowledge of how words are read and written on a page.

Songs and poems will also offer your child exposure to the rhythm of the language which will help them read with animation as opposed to a monotone.
Some additional benefits include:

* Extending the neural networks in the brain
* Sound discrimination which leads to spelling success
* Increased vocabulary
* Abstract and spatial reasoning which leads to math success
* Improved coordination
* Better concentration skills
* Sharper memory
* More focused listening skills

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How to Make Music Part of Your Child's Education 

Is music part of your child's education? If it isn't, it should be. Music is a powerful tool that aids a child's development in various ways. Consider a crying baby soothed by a mother's lullaby or a toddler learning the alphabet and numbers through song. Put music in your child's life and you will be nurturing them in the following areas:

* Improve physical coordination
* Enhance their sense of timing
* Honing their listening skills
* Improving memory skills
* Aiding language and speech development
* Enhance reasoning skills such as used in math and science
* Providing an outlet for self expression

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Nursery Rhyme 

The term nursery rhyme is used for ?traditional' songs for young children in Britain and many English speaking countries, but usage only dates from the nineteenth century and in North America the older ?Mother Goose Rhymes' is still often used.H. Carpenter and M. Prichard, The Oxford Companion to Childrens Literature'' (Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 383.

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