Write about the following topic.
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.
It is frequently suggested that encouraging children to pick up reading materials is becoming increasingly challenging. This essay aims to elaborate on possible explanations for this trend and provide practiceable solutions to promote interest in reading among youngsters.
Regarding the causes of this activity's declining popularity, I believe the booming of the multimedia has the greatest impact. For instance, in modern times, millenials, who grow up in a cartoon culture, often prefer to watch a movie with vivid colors, high quality images and clear audio to enjoy a fascinating work of fiction rather than read about it in a heavy tome. This is probably just because children's vocabulary is still limited and they need visual and sound assistance to help them understand verbal clues better. Another possible explanation could be the plethora of interesting pastime activities available to young people in the modern world. For them, chasing after a ball in a soccer match or beating their friends in a computer game seems to be a lot more compelling than picking up a book or newspaper.
In order to promote reading among youngsters, there are several plausible solutions. Firstly, authors of children's books should incorporate more pictures and illustrations in their work. This should attract more young readers as they can comprehend reading materials better thanks to the visual aids provided. Secondly, topics for children's books should also be updated regularly and kept more relatable to real life. From my observation, young readers nowadays prefer to read about real life heroes whose good deeds are real life feats instead of some fabricated stories.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, still, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1414.0 1615.20841683 88% => OK
No of words: 263.0 315.596192385 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37642585551 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02706775958 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83975185635 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.661596958175 0.561755894193 118% => OK
syllable_count: 432.0 506.74238477 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => 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: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.1991886254 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.833333333 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9166666667 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 7.06120827912 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.38176352705 68% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.227784680708 0.244688304435 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0790586241011 0.084324248473 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0344608706373 0.0667982634062 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.155665747758 0.151304729494 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0231962818158 0.056905535591 41% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.0946893788 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.48 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 78.4519038076 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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