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Importance of Stories, Songs Poems and Rhymes to Young Children
The Importance of Telling and Listening to Stories, Rhymes and Songs
Using stories, songs, and rhymes is a great way to help children develop their language and
communication skills
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They help children make sense of the world--life’s experiences, dilemmas and
hardships
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Their benefits
include:
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Practice social skills: Children are able to apply into their lives what they learn from the
story
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Explore new interests: children are able to explore new interests that are described in the
story line
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Use imagination: as children try to imagine the scenario that is described in the story,
they develop their imagination
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Building rapport: storytelling helps in developing the rapport between the children and
the story teller
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Inspiring and Encouraging: they are inspired about life and encouraged about on how to
overcome life challenges
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Recreating and Entertaining: storytelling provides time for recreation and entertaining
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Why Parents should tell Stories to their Children
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Storytelling intensifies mother-child
relationship
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School, video, television, working parent all these
forces are pulling families away from conversation
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Counteracts standardized education
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Children learn their values through storytelling
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Build emotional intelligence and cognitive flexibility
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Stories can increase a
child’s social intelligence
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Be intentional
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The Healing Effect of Telling the Story
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Thus, helping preserve culture
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Stories help children understand the world and facts about life, making sense of the
insensible
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Storytelling is recognized as one of the oldest healing arts
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For
many patients such as children, telling their story is what helps them to cope with or heal
from their disease
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Children may be assisted to deal with loss by involving them in creating a private personal
story and then confiding the story to others to assimilate the loss
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Telling the story about one’s life experiences has been shown to have beneficial effects on
illness symptoms and is associated with improved physical and mental health
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Life stories are rewritten to make sense of, find meaning in the loss & reassemble shattered
lives
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Importance of Stories, Rhymes and Songs to Children’s Development
Singing songs, reciting rhymes and reading stories are very important for the development of
a child
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They also play an important role in the holistic development of a child: cognitive,
physical, social, emotional and moral/spiritual
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Cognitive and language development
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Many legends, fables and biblical stories are put to song or rhyme
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Noah Built an Ark, They Crucified My Savior, among others
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They also
get opportunities to use language to describe what they can see
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For example, when
responding to a question related to a story
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 Children learn vocabulary, respond to instructions and expand their comprehension
skills
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For example, counting, repetitive patterns, and sequencing,

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This encourages them to be involved in group
activities
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When children engage in songs and rhymes that involves body movement they develop
their body muscles and coordination of different body parts
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Most singing games involve the coordination
of whole body
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Social development
This is the ability to interact with others, make and maintain friendships
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By participating in stories, songs and rhymes children can develop their public speaking
abilities and they can also learn how to take turns speaking and how to listen to others
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Respond to literature and develop their own opinion about the topic
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Developing positive
attitudes toward our own culture and the culture of others is necessary for both social and
personal development
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Develop emotional intelligence and creativity
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Children’s literature “contains numerous moments of
crisis, when characters make moral decisions and contemplate the reasons for their
decisions,” an important skill for children to see modeled
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Nature growth and development of a child’s personality and social skills
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Children are
very impressionable during the formative years, and children’s literature can help them
develop into caring, intelligent and friendly people
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Children’s
literature is of value because it is a timeless tradition, one in which “books are the major
means of transmitting our litrary heritage fromone generation to the next
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This personal emotional involvement and engagement with stories, songs and rhymes tends
to make children optimistic, excited and enthusiastic about their use of language
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It is usually more valuable to them to lead a discussion in
which the children are asked such questions as, “what did you get out of the story? What
did you learn from the story? What did you like about the story?” Discussing such questions
with children can help them think about characters motives, develop understanding of
characters personalities, and actions and can enable children to think about values, ethics
and principles of morality
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They also
become aware of their own and others thoughts and feelings and they become more
articulate in talking
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Elementary Children's Literature
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Bliss, L
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, & McCabe, A
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Personal narratives: Cultural differences and clinical
implications
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Understanding storytelling among African American children
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Young Exceptional Children, 8, 3-11
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" Catholic Library World
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28-35
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