Children's songs are a great resource for teaching children the skills and knowledge essential to their continuous learning process. So, this is our list of the nine benefits that children's songs offer to education
Improving language and communication skills
Children's songs incorporate new words and phrases, and their repetitive characteristics allow vocabulary to be assimilated more quickly. As children's songs are read aloud, children can hear how words sound and practice how to pronounce them easily, without the pressure of memorizing words directly.By reciting songs, children can practice language clearly and can be taught how language variants such as pitch, volume, inflection, and rhythm can be used to change the meaning of words.
Develops reading skills
Children's songs are a great tool for children beginning to read as they are basically short stories.Songs are a source for developing phonic skills, as they offer the ability to read and determine letter sounds. Rhyming words are especially helpful in identifying appropriate sounds. The rhythm and repetition of the words make them easy to memorize, these memory skills will play a great role in the development of the reading process.
Improve creative writing skills
Children's songs are comfortable for children, as they are structured like a story with a beginning, a knot and an end. Normally they obey a series of events and include a main character in the relevant scenes or circumstances, which represents an important criterion for writing stories.Children's songs often contain very interesting literary resources such as alliteration and onomatopoeia, which help children to be attracted to, and to learn and apply in their own writing.
Teaching of mathematical concepts
Children's songs use patterns in language and speech, and by recognizing patterns in language, children are also able to recognize patterns in numbers, helping them solve math problems.Many children's songs also use numbers in the content of their rhymes, such as: "one, two, three, four, five and leap" or "two elephants rocked on the web of a spider", in this way children learn to count , to add and subtract indirectly