Children love poetry!

Children love poetry.

Long before they even understand all the words, young ones love the rhyme and melody presented in verse. Classic children’s poetry is ideal for introducing and cultivating language skills. It’s wonderful to realize that something they love is so good for them.

Poetry allows children to learn that words can be placed together and connect thoughts. Educator, Michael Knox Beran, observes, “Verse teaches children something about the patterns and relationships that bind together the words of which it is composed. Poetry sets up an abstract system of order and harmony; the rhythm and the rhyme scheme are logical structures that a child can comprehend even before he understands the words themselves, just as he can grasp the rhythmic and harmonic relations of a piece of music.”

Beran explains that poetry is aesthetically pleasing, but also important to cognitive development. Classic verse teaches children an enormous amount about order, measure, proportion, correspondence, balance, symmetry, tense and mood. Mastering these concepts involves the most fundamental kind of learning for these are the basic categories of thought and the framework in which we organize sensory experience.

Just think, all this from precious gems of children’s poetry that kids love and cannot get enough of.

Children definitely grasp much more than one may think at first glance. Words and concepts are learned through poetry as youngsters connect context. Some say older classical literature is not understood and appreciated in today’s world, but children quickly build their vocabulary when introduced to good literature early.

Fond memories of childhood are contained in the writings that generations have learned and loved. Children love poetry, and that love will only grow as they grow.

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