Since the dawn of time storytelling has been playing a shaping role in the development of generations of human beings. At at time when there were no books, telling stories was the only way to maintain alive legends and traditions. Although storytelling is as old as mankind, opinion is still divided when it comes to discussing the utility of this practice. While some believe that parents should read stories to their children, others on the contrary claim that children can read books or watching TV by themselves. The aim of this essay is to weigh the pros and cons of those two opposite points of view.
For some parents, reading stories to their children has made it in the daily life. This activity sometimes has the shape of a ritual, where children listen to the voice of an adult reading aloud. It is a powerful practice that actually has several benefits. First of all, it helps keep family together and reinforce the ties between older and newer generations. Second, children learn to sharp their listening skills, which has a positive impact on their ability to comprehend and spell words properly. Moreover, listening to stories increases also creativity levels and imagination.
On the other hand, different opinions arise affirming that children are perfectly able to carry out activities like reading or watching TV by themselves. Conversely to the examples mentioned above, this approach has more drawbacks than benefits. These days, in most of the cases both parents work and consequently they have less time to spend with their children. Making ends meet, paying bills, earning enough money, are only some of the issues families have to face everyday. Reading stories requires patience and commitment, otherwise children would not enjoy it. In the light of this fact, some parents leave children read books alone, which is after all not a bad practice. Reading brings always advantages, since it helps broaden the vocabulary and it is the key ingredient to hone writing skills.
In conclusion, due to the lack of time that sometimes afflicts families, some parents do not have enough time to dedicate to storytelling. However, from the examples mentioned above, it results that this practice is linked to several benefits and therefore should be actively pursued. It can strengthen familiar boundaries and develop essential skills children need at school.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, consequently, conversely, first, however, if, moreover, second, so, still, then, therefore, while, after all, in conclusion, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 41.998997996 136% => 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: 1996.0 1615.20841683 124% => OK
No of words: 388.0 315.596192385 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14432989691 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43821085614 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64526922084 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 176.041082164 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.585051546392 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 607.5 506.74238477 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => 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: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 25.2067190409 49.4020404114 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 95.0476190476 106.682146367 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4761904762 20.7667163134 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06120827912 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.33924197984 0.244688304435 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.088954420621 0.084324248473 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105196378138 0.0667982634062 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.197239583054 0.151304729494 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.074704885835 0.056905535591 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 78.4519038076 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => 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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