We don’t typically speak in rhyming verse in our daily conversations. However, nursery rhymes do just that. They create these similar sounds that children pick up on. Their brains start recognizing the structures of those words due to the rhyming nature of them. So it starts categorizing the words and sounds.
This starts your child down the path of recognizing that letters represent sounds. These sounds become words, some with sections or what we know as syllables.
Patterns of sound help your child’s brain to start to understand language. By the time they are get ready for preschool, they can recognize the sequences of sound in whole words. This is a huge step in learning to read and spell.