Teaching Reading with Children's Rhymes

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Ann Kennedy on behalf of expertvillage.com and this session we'll be talking about rhyming and reading games. First we're going to look at rhyming, a simple game and I'm sure all of you know this game. It's called bow wow wow, whose dog art thou? Little Tommy Tinker's dog. Another way to do this is let's put your child's name in it and all of a sudden they relate to it and it becomes their own rhyme and they want to learn it. You see how it's repetition, you see how it rhymes? They start learning this way. Bow wow wow, whose dog art thou? Little Angela Kennedy's dog. And they feel so good about themselves. Another way for rhyming is to say the same thing and teach them to say it as a robot and that makes it fun and they get up, they stand up and they learn because their entire body, all their motor skills, their brain, everything is involved. So let's try it from a robotic way of moving our arms. Bow wow wow. Whose dog, another way is like a bird, to flap your wings and this is teaching them we can read at different speeds and it has different meanings too by our tones. Here's one like a bird flapping their wings. Bow wow wow. Whose dog art thou? Another way which I enjoy because it helps them with their rhymes and their rhythms is to clap. Bow wow wow, whose dog art thou? Another way we talked about throwing words to the stars. This is a lot of fun for a girls that enjoy cheerleading or boys that like cheerleading. It's the first steps actually in cheerleading where you're telling them pretend you've got pompoms and let's throw the word wow every time we get it to the stars so it's bow wow wow as though they have a pompom and then they're showing energy. Reading games. Use the rhymes to interact with your child. They're very very important."