Do you remember having been read nursery rhymes when you were a child? You may not realize it, but that is a form of rhythm reading.
  
  Do you remember the children's songs you used to sing? Can you still sing some of them? I bet you can. This is another form of rhythm reading.
  
  It has been proven that music or rhyming words improve speech and reading capabilities. When my children were younger there was a reading study conducted in which we participated. The parents participating in the study were assigned to one of three groups. Those groups were:
  * 1 Baby talk
  * 2 Normal conversation
  * 3 Rhythm reading
  These groups were tracked for a five active year span, then five year school grades for a total of ten years. The results were alarming for the different groups.

Group 1- Consisted of  baby talk was below the normal in reading interest, verbal, and social skills by a year or two constantly through out the study.

Group 2 - Consisted of normal conversation faired much better and was right about were the normal  in all catagories.

Group 3 -  Consisted of  rhythm reading group  was for the most part reading some when enter school, has excellent verbal skills, and appeared to be more social then the other two groups.

We were assigned the rhythm reading to accomplish this task. I had chosen the Dr. Suess book series. I was delighted that there were so many choices and reading levels. We started when the babies were about a month old, I would just recite the vowels when changing diapers or play time. The vowels are some of the first sounds that babies can make. Then at about 3 months we started reading the beginner Dr. Suess books such as Hand,Hand, Fingers, Thumb or The Foot Book.

Then we just followed the levels  up when the mastered the current reading level. This was never a forced event in my home, I used reading as a reward and positive mommy time. As soon as I said "let's go to the book shelf, my children knew it was time for us to sit and have fun together. When I read any particular action word  , the children were always encouraged to act them out, for example Hands, Hands, Fingers, Thumb   we would always use 1  right hand then the left and then clap them together at the end of the sentence.  Hop on Pop became a game to play we would place any  picture on the floor to hop on then when the word stop came up the had to freeze (these poses made really great photos and lots of laughs).

When my children went to school they could not just read from memory, which I would have been ecstatic about.  They were really  reading new material (books, directions,street signs ect.), In seventh grade my child recieved an award from John Hopkins Talented and Gifted  program for reading abilities.  So in inclusion read to your babies and sing (even if off-key as to they do not know any better) to give them lifetime of learning opportunities.  For me this was truely amazing time with my children and the reason I wrote this guide.

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