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Importance of Nursery Rhymes in Early Reading Development

Nursery rhymes play a crucial role in developing phonological awareness, a key factor in reading success. Encouraging children to engage with rhyming activities and books from a young age sets a strong foundation for literacy skills. This article explores the benefits of incorporating nursery rhymes into a child's learning journey and provides practical home-based rhyming games and book suggestions to enhance phonological awareness.

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Importance of Nursery Rhymes in Early Reading Development

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  1. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star The Importance of Nursery Rhymes

  2. There is a proven link between phonological awareness and success in reading. Children who have knowledge of Nursery Rhymes/can detect ‘rhyme’ have good phonological awareness. Therefore they have a good foundation for reading.

  3. It is beneficial to give children lots of experience of Rhyme before beginning to read. Start with singing Nursery Rhymes when they are babies. Continue with this and also look at rhyming books as children reach two/three years.

  4. Read and sing a range of Nursery Rhymes Recite rhymes with your child and miss out the ‘rhyming’ words Read books with rhyming texts eg. Ted in a Red Bed Make and play rhyming games How Can I Help At Home?

  5. Rhyming Games • Draw pictures of favourite nursery rhymes and sing them together • Rhyming Snap – make pictures of objects that rhyme to play traditional snap game. • Memory Game – draw pairs of rhyming objects to match. • Make up ‘silly rhymes’ together • Change words in traditional rhymes for your child to correct

  6. Listening to nursery rhymes, making up nonsense words, and enjoying riddles and tongue twisters help to develop children’s phonological awareness. Give them tools to read!!!!

  7. Suggestions of Rhyming books *The Gruffalo and Room on The Broom by Julia Donaldson *A Cat Called Scratch by Jonathan Long (Korky Paul Picture Book) *Fox on a Box – Usborne Phonics Readers *Father Christmas Needs a Wee by Nicholas Allan *Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar (Rhymes for very young children) by John Foster

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