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.
For a long time, reading has been deemed as one of the best mediums to accumulate knowledge. Notwithstanding many individuals finding it fascinating and engaging, some people, especially youngsters, are believed not to attach much importance to this action. This could happen courtesy of a host of reasons which will be further elucidated in this essay before giving any possible solutions.
To begin with, one prominent justification for why children lack interest in reading is because there are more stimulating hobbies that could get their attention. For example, in the past, instead of staying on the sofa and flipping through pages of a random book, boys would go outside and play soccer or team up with their friends. Similarly, their female counterparts tended to gravitate towards cooking or knitting, rather than reading. As of today's world, since technology is advancing at a stratospherically high level, children also tend to neglect the importance of reading and go for the attractiveness of technological gadgets. By shedding light on this example, it is crystal clear that they prospectively spend more time watching television or playing games than it is for learning lessons through books. To mitigate this, parents should restrictedly make a phone-time limitation for their children to follow and add in more recreational activities that include reading.
Another major reason worth mentioning is that parents' choices of books may affect how children perceive reading. If they start off with a complicated book, their daughter or son might have a hard time striving to understand the concept of the subject described. Having said that, sometimes it could be that the child may not have any interest in what they are reading. In this case, a possible solution could be to turn to another choice of books to begin with. This way, their kids may have a better perception of reading and possibly stem a root of passion to continue this hobby.
To sum up, although it is undeniable that children may find reading books dull and uninteresting by virtue of other attractive hobbies or technology distractions, choices of books and downtime restrictions should be taken into account to cultivate the frequent of reading.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, may, similarly, so, for example, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 41.998997996 133% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1888.0 1615.20841683 117% => OK
No of words: 360.0 315.596192385 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24444444444 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35587717469 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94693291071 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 176.041082164 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.591666666667 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 564.3 506.74238477 111% => 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: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.144218369 49.4020404114 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.866666667 106.682146367 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 20.7667163134 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.46666666667 7.06120827912 63% => 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 : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
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: 0.226992073963 0.244688304435 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0765132318564 0.084324248473 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0530069398543 0.0667982634062 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131984844178 0.151304729494 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0287181871541 0.056905535591 50% => 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: 13.41 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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