Poetry recitation is very important for children as it is a beautiful and effective way which facilitate the kid to express. Poems make you feel alive and bring you close to life through your passion and vocal expression. It gives you immense happiness and satisfaction.

Your soul gets impacted in different ways with poems and sometimes these impacts are lifelong. I still remember some poems and the feelings of reciting them with my siblings in my childhood.

Poetic expression takes you to a different world with its viewless wings. At times it makes you understand the reality of life. Poetry is not for poets and poetry lovers, it’s for everyone and it is everywhere. It is capable of affecting any heart.

Why poetry is Important?

Poems are important for children and good for adults as well. It awakens one’s sensitivity and enhances creative capacity. So, why not to experience this magic in your life?

Poetry and singing are very important for children as they learn how to creatively convey their feelings and all kind of emotions they encounter. They deepen their understanding of the language. It helps improving writing skills, creative thinking, and vocabulary to children. It helps in the development of natural rhythms.

Poetry and Rhymes enhance the phonemic awareness of a child. Children reciting rhythmic poems understand pitch, tone & the volume of sound.

The Poem recitation helps to develop memorization skills. Children also learn to pick up patterns and sequences in poem recitations. It helps them to learn new languages as well. Poetry provides a relaxed and pleasing way to practice language skills.

It also helps in the physical development of a child. It helps in breathing coordination, tongue & mouth movements with the help of the musical structure of the rhyme. Rhymes help you understand when to breath & for how long?

When parents or teachers help them to learn or recite the poem it establishes healthy relationships with them. Reciting poems encourage children’s sense of humor.

Sharing poems and rhymes with their family creates space for fun and laughter. It creates the opportunities that children read more stories and poems with parents, and grandparents which boost the emotional attachment with each other.

At times when children feel lonely, uncomfortable, they can recall the poems, stories, rhymes, and jokes which they shared with their parents and feel happy and relaxed. Recitation of poems with siblings makes them a good team.

Impact of Poetry Recitation

This expression is not important only for the parent-child relationship but the child’s relationship with others as well. They develop the skill to make friends. Since, by reading stories and poems, children are given various perspectives of the world we live in. They understand different points of view, cultures & beliefs.

They understand different right and wrong aspects of life with an initiation of understanding the literature. It grows empathy for others in them and helps them to become a better human being.

Practicing poetry recitations enhances their public speaking skills. Children who have recited poetry in public before are more open to speaking in front of an unknown audience. Early exposer would make the children feel more comfortable with meeting new people and networking.

In the early age of children, all the parents put a good time and effort to teach them many poems and rhymes but this practice vanishes eventually when they grow. It should not be done.

My children love learning poems for school and reciting them for me and others. They are filled with pride when they have mastered a lengthy poem. Here are my triplet girls reciting a beautiful poem “Somebody’s Mother” – by Mary Dow Brine