Throughout a child’s journey through the world of language, different tools are used to help them develop their linguistic skills. One that is not often talked about is the art of poetry writing. Poems are good because they can be less intimidating for a child learning to read than a long form book. In today’s blog we will explore poems and how they continue to be a great learning tool for kids with speech challenges.

What is a song, but a poem with music behind it? The musical rhythm of poems helps a child get through them with ease. Next time you read a poem with your child you can try singing it with them and see how they like it. Rhyming words can also help a child to annunciate and remember sounds better. Continuous use of these poem reading methods has been proven to help a child develop their vocabulary.

Poems can also be a lot of fun! The rhyming aspect of them appeals to people of all ages. The combination of pictures and flowing words helps a child to maintain concentration as they sound out the words, read and learn. The next step from there is comprehending what they’re reading and before they know it they’ll be picking up their first “big kid book”.

This leads us to our last point regarding poems. As kids develop their vocabulary and comprehension of words some of them may even be inclined and have the confidence with their newly acquired skills to write their own poems. Language can be fun and finding ways of reaching children from an early age and easing them into the world of speech will encourage their creative side!

Thank you for celebrating National Poetry Month with us. We encourage you to try what we’ve learned today.

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