Are you afraid your child is slipping behind? Or maybe you might be feeling ineasy about how they would cope in their first year of schooling?

Classic nursery rhymes are used to teach phonological awareness program simply because the ryhmes are fun. There's much more to these rhymes than simply their good humour and their enthusiastic rhythm.Nursery rhymes intorduce young listeners to story structure in its most basic form.There's an orientation: Peter Pumpkin Eater Has A wife : There's a problem--He's having trouble keeping her and there's a resolution: He puts her in a pumpkin shell and there he keeps her very well.

Nursery Rhymes also introduce children to a cast of characters who are likely to reappear throughout their school lives. In addition, nursery rhymes also greatly enrich young children's vocabularies and supply some early lesson sin the ways our language works. Jack Sprat is Lean-. When we read this rhyme to children we have to eaplain the word 'lean'. Hence, children add another word to their developing vocabullaries.  When a child asks, " What does it mean ; Molly my sister and i fell out?" you will explain that 'fell out' is an expression we don't use much anymore. It used to mean 'had an argument' and children get a glimpse of how words and expressions work in English.

Furthermore, nursery rhymes encourage thinking skills. Particulary entertaining are the riddle rhymes like Little Nancy because children like the challenge of a riddle.

Finally, the nursery rhymes provide short simple text. While their uncontrolled vocabulary may occassionally make them tough to decode, their unrelenting rhythm makes them perfect for emerging readers who are developing their concepts of what a word is.