Every Monday, we will be celebrating Poetry Month by sharing some childrens poetry resources with you. We scoured the internet and our own resources to bring you today’s list of great kids’ poems. These works are appropriate for children ages 0 to 4, but also for the child in you!
We learned that exposing children to similar sounds and rhymes has been proven to increase a child’s ability to learn not only more words but more challenging words at an earlier age. For more information visit: Infants & Toddlers: Learning Through Rhythm & Rhyme
There are plenty of ways you can incorporate rhyming into a child’s reading. You can select poems with topics that interest your child or even try to create a few together! Here’s just one of the many activities you can try: Early Literacy Rhyming Activity
Some poems that are available online:
An Alphabet by Edward Lear
At the Zoo by William Makepeace Thackeray
There Was A Little Girl by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Star by Jane Taylor
On our very own Marketplace, two great titles:
Poems for Babies
Baby Einstein: Pretty Poems and Wonderful Words