Many parents believe that when their children read books for entertainment, they are wasting their time, and that they should read only serious, educational books. What is your opinion about this?

Essay topics:

Many parents believe that when their children read books for entertainment, they are wasting their time, and that they should read only serious, educational books. What is your opinion about this?

Children are believed to waste time in reading entertaining books but only books for educational purposes. In my opinion, I do not agree with this since entertaining books can benefit children in as many ways as academic books.

First and foremost, the advantage for children from reading non-academic and amusing books is to boost their creativity and imagination which are surely seen as key factors to success during their school time, and especially their career. On top of that, entertaining books like fairy tales, folk tales, comic books also help kids to form their dreams at a very early age and this absolutely beneficial to them since they would have much more time to follow their dreams.
Entertaining books are also a great way for offspring to learn traditional moral values. For instance, In Pinocchio, kids would learn that lying is wrong and it can result in bad things. In Snow White and the seven dwarfs, they would know that good-hearted people would overcome difficulties and win over wicked ones in the end. In fact, these non-academic books are lively miniature pictures that are more or less based on real-life situations with a pure and simple view. Thus, in my opinion, funny books are considered as a safe and suitable place for children to explore life, to shape their behaviours, and to develop important life skills. Besides, reading entertaining books can help kids to relax from serious academic books and keep them enjoying reading as a hobby.

In short, both educational books and entertaining books have a great support for children. While educational ones play as a source of basic knowledge and information for kids, entertaining books help them to develop their life skills and enhance their creativity.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, if, so, thus, while, for instance, in fact, in short, in my opinion, more or less, on top of that

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 : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => 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: 1462.0 1615.20841683 91% => OK
No of words: 288.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07638888889 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69483817284 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 176.041082164 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.559027777778 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 447.3 506.74238477 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 48.8218843234 49.4020404114 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.833333333 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 20.7667163134 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.3333333333 7.06120827912 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.36167366308 0.244688304435 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.139295547329 0.084324248473 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0967117378416 0.0667982634062 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.246035915596 0.151304729494 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0660739211533 0.056905535591 116% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 50.2224549098 94% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.58950901804 92% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 78.4519038076 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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