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Best 1000 Poetry For Kids

Best 1000 Poetry For Kids How much do you use poetry with your children to nurture the minority language? My sense is that many parents (myself included) don’t make use of poetry to the extent that they could, and should, beyond the early stage of nursery rhymes. The fact is,  poetry is a highly effective means of promoting language acquisition.  Exposing children to the sound and rhythm of your target language, through suitable poetry, can foster deeper sensitivity to that language and help lay the foundation for reading ability—which is ultimately the key to higher and higher levels of proficiency. And even if every word isn’t understood, poetry adds to a child’s growing vocabulary, introduces the magic of figurative language, like metaphor, and builds awareness for precision in writing and speaking. At the same time,  poetry feeds a child’s intellectual and emotional development.  With its compact power, poetry can be a potent way of expressing concepts and emotions—fro