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Wibb Wobb Rhyme Research

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What Learning Is Taking Place/What I now About You: Grace, before children can read and write, they need to learn about sounds, words, language, books and stories. Rhyming is a great way for you to learn this. Learning rhymes teach you the connections between the sound of a word and how it’s written. Rhymes are especially powerful, because they are so memorable. Research has found that children who are familiar with rhymes (particular nursery rhymes) when they enter school often have an easier time learning to read. This could be because rhyming helps them discover many common word patterns (such as those in quick/stick or down/crown). And the more familiar these patterns become in oral language, the more easily children will recognize them when they begin to encounter them in print. …show more content…

Both the Wibbly Wobbly rhyme and the rhymes in Dr Seuss books all help you to learn these things. One the other important things about rhymes is that they are fun, they stick in your mind, and they make you laugh. Te Whariki, the Early Childhood Curriculum, states that children should “experience an environment where they discover and develop different way to be creative and expressive” this includes playing with words, learning rhymes, and experimenting. Grace, my ultimate aspiration for you is for you to become a competent and confident learner and communicator, exposing you to rhymes, letter and words sounds will provide you with a good foundation from which you can develop the more formal literacy skills in your later learning. Where To Next: To extend on singing the rhyme Wibbly Wobbly I read you some Dr Seuss books. You really enjoyed the book “Green Eggs and Ham and One Fish Two Fish. Dr Seuss books are great as they are full of lots of rhyming words and silly stories. Being exposed to these kinds of books and rhymes will further your knowledge surrounding word patterns, letter and word sounds. I wonder if you would enjoying engaging with rhyming cards to extend this

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