![]() When my sons were young we said them often, and sometimes we re-created them to have a little fun. Their rhythm and repetition capture and soothe one and all. In her book Storytelling with Children, Nancy Mellon says that nursery rhymes belong to story medicine, like good food and joy. There are many ways to play with words that I have engaged in through the years of my children’s lives. Word play is also a wonderful way to help develop language capacities connected with reading, writing and organized speech. ![]() Words may not be a medium of play that is thought of often, but it happens to be one of my favorites, and it’s incredibly fun when young children participate. My youngest son and I were inspired on a recent foggy morning to begin creating this rhyme as I drove him to kindergarten. Ran two little ghouls through their old church yard
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