~ 3 years old children's songs are chosen like this! Using Happy Rap to Help Children's Language Development

~ 3 years old children's songs are chosen like this! Help children's language development with happy rap. When children begin to babble, how are you going to teach them to speak? To help children develop their language, besides reading story books, it is also a good way to let children listen to children's songs and nursery rhymes! Children's songs can not only improve children's vocabulary and expression ability, but also enhance children's sensitivity to words.

Children's songs are very interesting and imaginative, and have the characteristics of phonology, which can effectively promote children's language development. In this issue, we invite Tu Miaoru, director of the Department of Early Childhood and Family at Fu Jen Catholic University, to share the singing skills of children's songs at different stages with mom and dad! Highlights of singing children's songs for 7-12 months

This stage is the enlightenment of language, and children can only make "ㄇㄚㄇㄚ" or "ㄏㄜㄏㄜ" sounds at most, and it is best to focus on simple and clear short lyrics. You can choose songs with light and happy tunes when playing, and choose soft and gentle songs before going to bed. For example, sing "Open the Umbrella" on rainy days: "One, two, three, open the umbrella, take a walk and have a look. When the rain stops, close the umbrella. While singing, take the children to do actions and combine children's songs with their life experiences.

Children's rhymes with circular logic such as Little Bell and Cow Comes can also be sung more at this stage.

expert Talk: young children will imitate adults' mouths from about 7 months. Singing rhyming melodies in the form of games and letting children imitate pronunciation can effectively promote language development.

Extended reading: Is the child "slow in language development"? 12 skills to help children develop their language!

Children's songs for 1-2 years old have key points to sing

At this time, children's ability to repeat words becomes better. At first, they can express their meaning in short sentences. They can start to add children's songs with longer lyrics, such as Little Monkey, How old are you, Good Morning and Good Night, and sing along with the melody and do more complicated movements, so that children can practice fine movements while learning the language.

expert Talk: the more words children accumulate at this stage, the more they can express themselves. 2 ~ 3 years old children's songs with singing points

2 ~ 3 years old children's cognitive ability is more mature, and they can add different types of children's songs, such as guessing, inversion, question and answer, solitaire, etc., especially the question and answer children's songs. The way of asking and answering is helpful to increase the interest of parent-child interaction. If children start to attend kindergarten or kindergarten, they can be encouraged to share the children's songs they have learned at school, which will increase their opportunities to express themselves and strengthen their mastery of the language. Adapting the content of children's songs to increase language richness

can guide children to adapt the content of children's songs and use different words to increase language richness. For example, "The tomatoes in the field are round and big, and they lie down and sleep without talking. A big German shepherd came and bit at the tomatoes. Dad was very angry and drove the German shepherd out. You can ask your child to replace tomatoes with corn, green peppers, cucumbers and other fruits and vegetables.

further reading: stuttering? How to train children to express fluently? Learn phonological characteristics with rhyming lyrics

Let children listen to children's songs with repeated rhymes and obvious rhymes. For example, "Xiao Pang Xiao": "Xiao Pang Xiao, if dumplings are not tightly wrapped, learn to dig wells. If you can't dig them out, learn to feed pigs. If you don't feed pigs, pick strawberries. If strawberries can't be picked, learn to play the trumpet. Integrating into the storyline to expand the length of songs

After the age of 3, children will start to organize different sentences into simple stories. At this time, children can join children's songs with complete storylines to guide them to replace the lyrics with people, things and things they are familiar with in life, and expand the length of songs, such as "Little mouse, get on the lampstand, steal oil and eat, but can't come down, call mom, mom won't come, call dad, dad won't come, call sister."

expert Talk: children will understand and remember more easily if the story is integrated into the lyrics. Teaching children to sing children's songs is super NG! NG practice 1. Force children to recite or memorize

The key point of singing children's songs is to "make children feel interesting". Don't force children to recite or memorize. Only by taking children to sing one sentence by one and I will stimulate their interest. NG practice 2. Constantly correct children's pronunciation

When singing children's songs, we should create a happy and pleasant atmosphere. Constantly correcting pronunciation will reduce children's willingness to learn. If the child's pronunciation is not correct, you can amplify the voice and slow down the speech, and repeat the demonstration several times so that the child can hear clearly how to pronounce it.