20+ years UK teaching experience, post graduate study of psychology, education & child development, membership of the British Psychological Association & ongoing research, led me to re-model nursery rhymes for today's infants. Suitable for children with typical & less typical language development. W I Z Z Y ' S W O R D S
A new picture book of re-worked nursery rhymes
Many modern parents sing
‘pop’ songs with their infants. However, research shows that nursery rhymes, with the key vocabulary for infants, promote rhythm, language & child development in all domains of learning. Cognitive, physical, communicational and social & emotional. A fun rhyming book for shared & independent, active and interactive learning
A book for children 0 to 5+/parents, grandparents, early years providers, teachers, SENCOs
A book for developing reading and learning readiness
A book based on language development data
A book containing the oral vocabulary for successful life-long learning
A book for supporting the development of the sounds, words & movement that promote child & language development from birth
RHYME RHYTHM MOVE LEARN
Sharing the language patterns in rhymes help infants to learn sounds in the order they are spoken. This prepares them for reading, understanding and writing text. The English language is not fully phonetic and relies on sound-symbol correspondence and pattern sound matching. This is why being able to recite rhymes is so important for early language learning and development. Adding actions/movements to rhymes is known to enhance the learning of sounds even further with the body and brain working in tandem. In order that children can learn to:
Hear and listen, talk and sing, think and understand, behave and read and write,
children need:
To be talked to and talk with adults and others
To be read to by adults and others
To hear and learn nursery rhymes with adults and others
To learn new words with adults and others
