| Learning to read is one of the toughest and | | | | pet, wet, and get. Rhyming also teaches |
| most important tasks a young child faces. A | | | | children the sound of the language. Other |
| child's successful accomplishment of this | | | | important skills include phonological |
| feat is one of the strongest indicators of | | | | awareness, the ability to notice and work |
| future success--and a child's struggle with | | | | with the sounds in language. Rhymes help |
| reading is one of the strongest indicators of | | | | children with phonemic awareness, which is |
| future failure. There are many things that | | | | the knowledge that phonemes are the smallest |
| parents can do to help ensure that their | | | | units of sounds that make up words. This |
| child is successful when learning to read and | | | | awareness leads to reading and writing |
| one of the keys is making sure that rhyme is | | | | success. |
| a part of your child's early life. There are | | | | |
| three important reasons why rhyme is | | | | Rhyme also teaches children who are learning |
| important to learning to read. | | | | to read about the patterns and structures of |
| | | | both spoken and written language. Songs and |
| One key reason why rhyme is important is that | | | | rhymes expose your child to the rhythm of the |
| it is fun. Playing with rhyme is learning but | | | | language. This will help them read with some |
| because it is just that -- playing -- | | | | animation in their voice instead of just a |
| children are willing to spend a lot of time | | | | monotone. Rhyme also prepares children to |
| rhyming and learning more about rhyme. This | | | | make predictions while learning words and |
| makes rhyme a great teaching tool and a great | | | | gives them crucial decoding skills. |
| motivator for learning. Rhymes are easier to | | | | |
| learn and remember than non-rhymes and that | | | | While learning to read is difficult and |
| is why many learning tools for older children | | | | challenging for most children, rhyme can help |
| and adults still include rhyme. | | | | make the task both easier and more fun, teach |
| | | | important language skills, and teach language |
| Rhyme is important to emergent literacy and | | | | patterns and structure. These three benefits |
| learning to read because it teaches children | | | | are important reasons to make rhyme a part of |
| about the language. Rhyming helps children | | | | your child's early childhood. |
| learn about word families such as let, met, | | | | |