The number of children that read books for fun has dropped dramatically in recent years.
What are the reasons for this? How can we encourage children to read more?
Elders, always complain to the young generation that they are not reading enough. These complaints also occurred in my life when my teacher shed light on me to understand the deepest meaning and great advantages of reading books in whole life period. Until the moment, I was one of those youngsters who get lazy when reading and preferred advanced technology over books. Hence, based on my journey of reading, I found the root cause of insufficient reading trends and some methods to make the public aware of reading.
Firstly, it is true that we are living in the modern world with unpredictable technological advancement that challenges us to be smarter than ever in history. Yet, acknowledgment is not relevant to the technology advancement, only self-motivation and diligence is the way to broaden our knowledge horizon. In this distracting society, people tend to fall into a trap while following along knowledge journey, by spending unconscious time in social network platforms or video games and when we finally get out of the trap the possible time has already wasted. For example, my younger sister limited her social hours by one hour per day, but after watching interesting videos in continuous order, she claimed that 5 hours were spent. Therefore, wasting time on unnecessary things is one of the biggest reasons why we are not reading enough.
Secondly, the obvious solution is limiting the social network time but if the person is not truly aware, it’s hard to follow the strict rules. For this reason, helping society being aware of reading books is the first step to follow. For example, spreading the advantages of reading by the peers is the most efficient way because teenagers and children easily follow others. Another solution is the parent’s effort to encourage their children to read more by rewarding or reading for them. I use this technique with my daughter by reading at least three books for a week and at the same time, showing the example of reading by myself.
In conclusion, it is not children’s fault not reading enough, but also parent and society should engage in encouraging reading by the effective way including advertising in society or showing the example. Besides, understanding the root cause is the first to step to follow.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, finally, first, firstly, hence, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, at least, for example, in conclusion, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 7.85571142285 13% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 24.0651302605 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 41.998997996 124% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1902.0 1615.20841683 118% => OK
No of words: 378.0 315.596192385 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03174603175 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40933352052 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75736515975 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 176.041082164 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.579365079365 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 582.3 506.74238477 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => 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: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.7856003644 49.4020404114 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.875 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.625 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06120827912 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.295259841555 0.244688304435 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0987692526466 0.084324248473 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0969019846355 0.0667982634062 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.174598090798 0.151304729494 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.110112944691 0.056905535591 194% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 50.2224549098 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.4159519038 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 78.4519038076 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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