Every mother knows about the benefits of poems for children. Not for nothing that psychologists and speech therapists advise children to start reading such works at an early age. Small short poems are suitable for the youngest students. They can be learned with children from one year old, while experts advise children to start reading nursery rhymes from birth. They will help kids learn to speak early.
First, babies will babble cheerfully while reading mom, trying to repeat the intonation of her voice. Then, when they become older, they will start making sounds that are very reminiscent of some words from poems. And in the year some nimble kids will repeat especially liked phrases for adults.
Why is it much more important to read poems for young children than prose?
The answer to this question is very simple. Undoubtedly, fairy tales are of great importance during the period of development of the child. But it is the poetic form that makes the kids show interest in “adult words” due to their rhythm and melodiousness. Such a reading encourages the children to start trying to pronounce the remembered sounds aloud.
The benefits of poetry
Poems, like fairy tales, perfectly develop the imagination of children. But at an early age it has an important role in the development of the child. None of us can fantasize so wonderfully like children. But without the ability to dream, it is impossible to set a goal and achieve it even in adulthood. Without imagination, children will not be able to have fun, and what kind of child can be considered happy if he did not spend time playing games in childhood?
Poems also develop memory in babies. It is not for nothing that in school we learn the works of poets in such a large number. Indeed, there will be no sense in learning if the child, upon leaving school, all knowledge will disappear from his head.
At a younger age, light small poems are suitable for developing memory, for example, S.Ya. Marshak "Where did the sparrow dine?"
Where did you dine, sparrow?
At the zoo in animals.
I had lunch first
Behind the bars of the lion.
Fortified himself with the fox.
I drank some water from a walrus.
He ate an elephant carrot.
With the crane he ate millet.
Stay by the rhino
Bran ate a little.
I visited a feast
Have a tailed kangaroo.
Was at a gala dinner
Have a furry bear.
A toothy crocodile
I almost swallowed.
Experts believe that such works teach children how to build logical chains.
It is the poetic form that will become an indispensable assistant for the child when he learns to read, as rhyming repeating phrases are much easier to pronounce than awkward and difficult sentences in prose.
The use of poems for pronunciation training is known. If you regularly read them to children, starting from an early age, then they will not need a speech therapist. For this purpose, the work "Where did the sparrow dine?" Is perfect.
Do not forget about the process of raising children while reading funny poems. Indeed, each work, even if it is very short, carries the main idea, which the poet brings to his little readers in a playful way. Psychologists have proven that it is in the poetic version that children are best perceived as an "instructive lesson."
“Where did the sparrow dine?”, Author - S.Ya. Marshak
Samuel Yakovlevich Marshak is a famous Soviet poet and an excellent writer of many children's books. Our parents grew up on his work. Children love him very much, because his perky rhymes are always so interesting and instructive.
He is the author of the famous poem "Where was the sparrow born?", Which is included in the cycle "Children in a Cage." Using this work as an example, the children easily manage to learn the technique of "expressive reading".
The author in this poem teaches children perseverance by the example of the protagonist, who is smart: he recalls that the zoo always has a lot of food for animals and goes there for lunch. Sparrow has to show a lot of courage, so as not to be afraid to climb into the cage to a lion, a fox and even a crocodile! So the poem "Where the Sparrow Dined" also teaches the courage of its young readers.
Based on the poem, a cartoon was shot in 1983.