Children love language and are always eager to learn and use interesting words. Listening to stories and poems read aloud provide children with good modeling and the motivation to become readers. Poems are great tools to build vocabulary and excite the imagination. A child's literacy development is sparked by a literature rich environment. As our young emergent readers examine print and have fun working with words they begin to match the sounds that go with letters and see patterns in words. Poems provide a predictable form of literature that offers fun vocabulary and success from the rhyming word patterns. I would like to encourage you to read predictable books and poems with your child to help build their reading decoding skills and fluency. Here is a fun one to try:
Five little monkeys jumping on the bed.
One fell off and bumped his head.
Mama called the doctor and the doctor said,
"No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"
You can make the poem more fun by adding movements and by changing the tone of your voice to capture your child's interest. Look for rhyming words together and search for familiar words. Have fun exploring words together.
Words of wisdom from Dr. Seuss:
" Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you
can think up if only you try!"
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