It is often argued that it is difficult to get children to read. Why do you think this is? What measures could be taken to encourage children to read more?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Encouraging children to pick up reading materials is said by many people to become increasingly challenging. This essay aims to explore possible reasons for this trend and provide feasible solutions to encourage young readers to be more involved in the activity.
On the one hand, I believe that reading is losing its appeal to young members of society is largely because of the multimedia's tremendous growth in modern times. For example, millenials who grow up in a cartoon culture often prefer to watch a movie with impressive visual and clear audio to explore a fascinating fiction world than to read about it in a heavy book. Perhaps due to their still limited vocabulary, children often turn to the help of images and sounds to comprehend the unfamiliar words that may come up. Another possible explanation would be the plethora of recreational activities available to youngters nowadays. For these highly energetic individuals, chasing after a ball in a soccer match or trying to beat their friends in a computer game seem to be much more appealing than spending time looking at pages full of words they can barely read.
On the other hand, there are several applicable solutions to drum up interest among young readers. Firstly, authors of children books can include more pictures and drawings in their work and provide simple explanations for strange words. This, I believe, will help children to read better, and consequentially, more avidly. Secondly, parents can arrange different engaging pastime activities that center around their children's literacy skills. For instance, they can create boardgames in which their kids have to use cue cards to tell a story and role play the characters of the games.
In conclusion, I believe in order to popularize reading among youngsters, it is vital that they receive adequate help from a systematic collection of illustrations and get to participate in fun-filled activities to boost their reading skills.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, still, for example, for instance, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 41.998997996 133% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1650.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 317.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20504731861 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21953715646 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84629306838 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.630914826498 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 511.2 506.74238477 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.721207125 49.4020404114 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.923076923 106.682146367 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3846153846 20.7667163134 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.15384615385 7.06120827912 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.220455016716 0.244688304435 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0766177033817 0.084324248473 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0515116093097 0.0667982634062 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138803316316 0.151304729494 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0366604925894 0.056905535591 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.0946893788 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 50.2224549098 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.36 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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