If you feel any deficiency in your child’s progress, sing the same poem to them, during play and other relaxing activities, again and again. Understand that the repetitive quality of nursery rhyme phrases helps in memorizing them.
Use hand gestures if you want to This will add creativity, cognitive abilities, improves hand to eye coordination and encourages thinking.
This is the quickest way to get them to memorize a rhyme and it works faster if you give little prizes for every right answer.
For instance, you can sing together ‘Humpty Dumpty’ with your child and then draw Humpty on a paper and ask your child to identify it and relate to that rhyme. This activity will greatly enhance the memory and association skills.
