Little rhyming words

Let's play with words, or what is hidden behind “eniki-beniks…”

Amosova NV

Have you ever thought about the fact that native speech becomes the main school discipline literally from the first days of schooling? But long before coming to school, every child goes through the most difficult path of getting to know the word, realizing its capabilities, its beauty. K. Chukovsky thought a lot about these magnificent possibilities of small children in his book "From Two to Five". All this is so. But why, then, growing out of their creative five years, or maybe decades, do people sometimes seem to lose this ability, this gift, invested in them by nature, and turn words only into a means of utilitarian communication? To paraphrase the famous lines of the poet Levitansky: "Where do you come from, words?" - I sometimes want to ask another question: "Where are you going, words?" Behind the bustle of everyday life, behind everyday problems, we sometimes miss something extremely important and, recalling the successful sayings, almost aphorisms of our young children, we are surprised to find that grown-up children have completely lost what they were so generously and richly endowed with in tender infancy.

Of course, this problem is complex. To educate a child's sense of the word is not only to teach him to speak competently and interestingly. This means, at the same time, to introduce him to such treasures of the great Russian speech, with which hardly anything can be compared.

Let's think about two important and interrelated concepts: children's perception of word play and the active participation of children themselves in various word games.

Playing with words, playing with concepts, playing with rhythm are often valuable in themselves, because they pursue not so much semantic goals as the task of creating such a semantic atmosphere in which a small child will be comfortable and comfortable.

What attracts the little ones the most? What do they find in children's "counting books" that are generally devoid of any meaning whatsoever and represent an unimaginable set of "gibberish"? This is a rhythm, convenient combinations of sounds that even the smallest one, who has not yet learned to speak properly, is able to reproduce.

When a child finally speaks freely, difficult, not necessarily understandable, but beautiful and sonorous words acquire special charm for him. Chukovsky caught this with extraordinary sensitivity and joyfully went to meet the children's needs:
We live in Zanzibar,
In the Kalahari and the Sahara,
On Mount Fernanda Po,
Where Hippo Po walks,
Along the wide Limpopo.

It is characteristic that none of the young children, to whom "Aibolit" is read for the first time, is bored in front of geographical concepts unknown to him. Yes, they have not yet heard such a word - geography. However, none of them will ever ask what these incomprehensible words mean. Children instantly remember them, begin to repeat with rapture and enjoy their melodic sound.

Let's recall, for example, one of the most popular folklore works, which, probably, not a single child has passed:
Baba sowed peas -
Jump-jump, jump-jump!
The ceiling collapsed -
Jump-jump, jump-jump!
Baba walked, walked, walked,
Found a pie.
She sat down, ate,
Went again...

What is the semantic connection between the sowing of peas and the collapsed ceiling, and where the woman went after this collapse, and what does the pie have to do with it. After all, everything in this simple rhyme is meaningless, everything is a sheer nonsense, but children adore this nonsense, they demand to repeat it endlessly and jump under it as soon as they have learned to walk.

The possibilities of mischievous verbal play are endless, and most importantly, priceless, because through such verses a child becomes familiar with the feeling of language, begins to understand the subtleties of its sound, the huge range of its application.

Sometimes, very often, children, without knowing it, begin to "create" their own word game. Here is how A.M. describes it. Malysheva in her book "Playing with Words" ¹ :

"My daughter was a year and a half when we first read poems about pan Tralislav Trulyalinsky. She was especially delighted with lines with all sorts of variations on the theme" tru-la-la. "With him and the aunt - Tweedledum, and the daughter - Tweedledee, and the little son - Tweedledum, and the dog - Tweedledee, etc. And the end of the poem, where this leitmotif becomes the only one, brought my little daughter simply into ecstasy: "All drivers are Tweedlers, postmen are Tweedledees, football players ... The teacher himself is a Tweedler, and the guys are Tweedledees!" Of course, she still did not know many words from this poem and could not answer who the postmen and football players were . .. But it was not important. She couldn’t really pronounce it, but she said: “Ta-la-la, Talalinsky.” And so we continued the game proposed by Julian Tuwim and his translator Boris Zakhoder. I said some arbitrary line, and she picked up:
All toys…
Tallyushki.
Well, what about books?
Talalishki.
And Anyuta?
Talalyuta!

And so it could go on indefinitely, until my supply of suitable words was exhausted. For a long time this was our favorite activity, and she was included in it without any preparation. You could suddenly suddenly throw some phrase to her, and she immediately picked up, and always unmistakably" ¹ .

And now let's play words.0655 The game can be played by two or several people at the same time. The beginner says any word, for example "Apple", the next player must come up with a word starting with the last letter of the first word, i.e. on "o" (Apple - sheep - watermelon, etc.). The one who said the last word wins.

Game 2 "Associations"
The players are divided into two teams. One team thinks of some word or rhyme and says it to the other team, but not in plain text, but in another word (s), based on their associations. For example, Anya says "grandfather", Misha, after thinking, says "woman". The answer is correct, and Anya's task is to suggest a new association, for example "beans". After that, it is quite easy to guess that the line was guessed: "The woman sowed peas ..." When the riddle is solved, the move goes to the next team.

So, we got acquainted with the magical bewitching world of words, learned to play with them. "But is this really enough to develop the talent of your child, to reveal in him the ability to compose poetry?" - many parents will ask in bewilderment. Of course not! Therefore, in the second part of the article, we will consider the simplest laws of versification and get acquainted with rhyme.

While children are very young, they are intuitively drawn to poetry, preferring it to everything else. And they feel great rhyme. Many parents have seen this through their children. Sometimes, forgetting the end of the line, the baby easily finds another word that rhymes with the end of the previous line. But in general, children remember rhymes with extraordinary ease. After all, rhyme in itself is capable of attracting, and enchanting, and even, perhaps, bewitching. Children feel the charm of consonant words and lines very early, often they themselves begin to rhyme even in infancy. It is very important to maintain this interest, because the sense of rhyme, like the sense of rhythm, is one of the steps on the way to understanding poetry, its conventionality, its special language. The discovery of rhyme was probably one of the most remarkable discoveries of mankind.

If you look closely or listen to children's works, you will notice that all the first books, the first poems in a child's life, are designed precisely for the fact that an adult does not have to read the end of a line to the end.

Sometimes the last rhyming word is joyfully shouted out by the child himself. He literally waits for rhyme, he likes that the words sound similar. And at first he rejoices not so much in the meaning as in this beautiful consonance. Daniil Kharms knew this ability of young children very well and, as if on purpose, wrote a small poem with dots instead of a rhyming word for such an exercise. The poem is called "Very, very tasty cake":

I wanted to arrange a ball,
And I invited guests to my place ... (called).

I bought flour, I bought cottage cheese,
I baked crumbly ... (pie).

Pie, knives and forks are here -
But some guests ... (do not come).

I waited until I had enough strength,
Then a piece of … (swallowed).

Then he pulled up a chair and sat down
And the whole pie in a minute ... (ate).

When the guests arrived,
Even crumbs ... (did not find).

However, for any author, parents can also successfully do this work. Below is a list of verses specifically for this exercise. By the way, you can do it with any work containing a rhyme that you read to your child. And it does not matter if the child makes a mistake and inserts the wrong word: anyway, this is already a process of creativity.

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Three magpies - three clappers!
Lost three ... (brushes).

***
V. Stepanov

There lived a round cat in the world.
He was round round ... (year).
He ate round and drank round,
Round "Meow" ... (spoke).
Round paw round cat
Washed his round ... (mouth).

***
V. Berestov

Show yourself from the clouds, sun,
Look in soon... (in the window).

"Hide and seek"
The sun with a cloud again
They started to hide and seek ... (play).
Only the sun will hide -
The whole cloud ... (cries).
And when there is a sun -
There is a rainbow in the sky ... (laughs).

"Cow"
Cow, cow,
Horned . .. (head)!
Do not butt small children,
Milk is better for them ... (give)!

***
So the fairy tale has ended,
We'll start it all over again
Or we'll start a new one,
But first... (we'll have a rest).

V. Stepanov
"Pine"
Squirrels and bears know,
Where the pine makes noise in the forest:
On the branches of a pine tree ... (cones),
Also - all of it is in needles.

Chanterelles
Under the fallen leaves
Mushrooms hid together.
Very cunning sisters
These yellow ... (chanterelles).

"Fly agaric"
Although he is dressed up in appearance
And handsome, but poisonous.
Like a red traffic light
In a red hat ... (fly agaric).

"Cherry"
Fills the garden in summer
Aroma of ripe cherries.
There is no birthday
Without cherry ... (jam)!

***
Like blue spills
Blue on the branches ... (plums).

"Mole"
Why are you, mustachioed mole,
Climbed into my garden?
Why did you make holes
Where tomatoes ripen?
Here's what I'll tell you:
How will I catch . .. (I will punish).

"Potato"
A girl grew underground,
But she was fresh and round.
The dog Artoshka barks loudly:
"Woof-woof-woof - hello, ... (potato)".

Lagzdyn
"Ladushki"
Ladushki, patties,
Wash your noodles with soap!
Clean palms,
Here is some bread for you… (spoons)!

"Play"
Eyes?
Here.
Spout?
Here.
And where is the porridge...
(belly)?

***
I have a little brother,
His name is Alyoshka,
He doesn't know how to eat porridge
And he fights ... (with a spoon)!

Put on pillows:
Dolls - cheeks,
Bunnies - ears,
Goat - horns,
Pig - ... (legs)!

The bunny took off his slippers,
Cleaned his paws,
Ate a carrot,
And went to bed.
There will be a bunny
Strongly ... (sleep).

I'm learning a rhyme,
I want to know a rhyme:
About a kitten and a mouse,
About a duckling and about . .. (bear)!

"Washing"
I'm not going out today:
I'm washing a dress for a doll,
I'm washing a T-shirt,
At the same time and ... (bunny).

We got acquainted with rhyme, and now we will try to compose poetry.

In his book "The ABC of Poetry" M. Schwartz wrote: "Writing poetry is not difficult. The main thing is to understand how they are arranged. And when you understand how poems are arranged, you will feel their rhythm, music, hear rhyme, words your mood - you will see that writing poetry is not so difficult. ²

Here is what the author writes further in his book: “Think about how poetry differs from an ordinary story or fairy tale. That’s right, poetry is collapsible, easy to remember, they can be sung to music. they fit together very well, like a choir or an orchestra. They sing along to each other, one word sings the same as the other. It turns out - consonance, rhyme.
The mandolin starts,
The voice is sweet as a raspberry.
The guitar sings along with it.
Wonderful couple!

To find a rhyme for a word, you need to listen to what it sings, what kind of echo it has, and remember another word that will respond to it. If I shout: "Canary", the echo will answer me: "-areika, -reika, -eyka." The first, most complete echo is "-areika". And the rhyme with him is the most complete, it is also called rich.
Kan-areika - bat-areika.

If it is impossible to find a word that fits the meaning of the verse and at the same time with a rich, complete rhyme, the rhyme of the victorious is used. For example, rake is also a good rhyme. Only I don’t want to insert this rail into poetry, but I want the canary to drink Pepsi-Cola with me. We call another rhyme: "Hey, lei-ka, bey-ka, drink-ka ...". Here's the right rhyme!
Hey, listen, canary,
Pepsi-Cola, drink with us!" the syllable, and the syllable before it and the ending of the word, respond weaker and are pronounced quickly, so they can be changed: -zheny, -stingy, -fried.
Dear ...
Roasted pig! two or even three words.0655 We sewed a pair of sheets ourselves
And we sail!
Are your cheeks cold? One, two, three...
Rub it with a mitten!

So, we got acquainted with the small methods of writing poetry, which M. Schwartz gives us in his book. And now let's play exciting games with the children.

Game 1 "Echo" (modified version)
An adult and a child stand at different ends of the room. The child pronounces any word, for example, "mushroom". The adult plays the role of "echo" and offers the child rhyming endings. For example: "barrels - points". The child must choose any other word for them. For example: "pouch - bumps - kidneys, etc."

You can write down all the composed words and try to compose a line or a quatrain with the child, thus finding out "what the echo told about." For example:
Under a pine among stumps and bumps
A small mushroom has grown.

I will take a bag with me,
I will put a mushroom in it.

Well, the stem of a mushroom,
Like a small barrel, etc.

Game 2 "Burime"
Our great-grandparents also loved to play this game. All participants are given several pre-prepared rhymes. From them it is necessary to compose a poem with meaning and preferably funny. Everyone goes to a corner and writes and then reads aloud. The author of the best poem is the winner.
For example: "mosquitoes - kind, bed - kiss."
What are mosquitoes
Gentle and kind to people!
You lie down in bed in the evening,
So they climb to kiss.

And in conclusion, I would like to note that if your children get such experiments, if they put lines into quatrains without much difficulty, rhyme, play rhythm, then this does not mean at all that they will all become poets. But these exercises will bring up their taste, their exactingness not only in relation to themselves, but also to poetry in general, they will accustom them to an exceptional ability to express their thoughts and feelings publicly.

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