There is a reason that nursery rhymes and lullabies have existed and subsisted for decades or even hundreds of years. Their classic messages, catchy lyrics, and indelible characters bring joy to our ...

We’ve even acted out the lyrics, folding our hands, and bending our arms, to look like an actual teapot. “I’m a Little Teapot,” which as you can see from the above lyrics, is all about a tea kettle ...

Arriana Salisbury recalled looking at stars with her father and loving “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” as a child. Salisbury now shares nursery rhymes with her two children and a stepchild. “At ...

Rhyming games are key to helping children with their understanding of different word sounds and the rhythm of words. This can be hugely helpful for their language skills as they build to talking in ...

Whether you're at the supermarket, the park or home, it is always a good time to practise rhyming words. Recognising and producing rhymes is a key skill, which will help unlock important language and ...

Almost everybody knows the rhyme "Lizzie Borden took an axe." But do you know where it came from? And have you heard this early version?

This is the first post in a new blog series about encouraging a love of language in young children written by professional storyteller Peter Burns. Many years ago, just after my daughter Alice was ...