Some parents believe that reading books for entertainment is a waste of children’s time. They think that their children should read only serious educational books. What is your opinion?
Some parents opine that children reading books for entertainment is merely wasting their time and instead they should spend time in reading educational books only. But there is another category of parents who feel the opposite. My opinion matches with the latter. This essay will lay stress upon how reading for entertaining oneself can help in holistic development of a child and also supports in mitigating the monotony and pressure built by reading serious educational books.
When a child is given a book to read for which he or she has interest, learning will be quick. For the overall growth of a child, it is imperative that he/she is given all kind of books to read. For example, the books based on cartoons or some comedy novels will help the reader to relax his mind and think more creatively while focusing onto the academics. Hence, the role of humor and enjoyment plays a very significant role in nurturing a child.
Furthermore, reading for entertainment purpose helps in lowering down the stress level pertaining to academics among the children and help them in fully utilizing their reading time. For example, findings of a recent survey by Harvard University, wherein 223 school going children were interviewed, made it clear that 86 percent of these respondents feel that reading books for entertainment has brought down their stress level by 36 percent. Hence, it becomes very evident that reading books to have fun is a great stress buster.
To conclude, it will not be incorrect to say that reading books with an intent to entertain oneself not only helps in holistic growth of the child but also play an important role in breaking the monotony and reducing the burden that they experience in reading serious educational books.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, hence, if, so, while, for example, kind of
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 : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1469.0 1615.20841683 91% => OK
No of words: 293.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01365187713 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62666071792 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 176.041082164 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.552901023891 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 443.7 506.74238477 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 76.128728699 49.4020404114 154% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.416666667 106.682146367 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4166666667 20.7667163134 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 7.06120827912 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.485040787694 0.244688304435 198% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.171055923548 0.084324248473 203% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.151906944649 0.0667982634062 227% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.294221242127 0.151304729494 194% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.12334673786 0.056905535591 217% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.0946893788 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 50.2224549098 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.4159519038 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 78.4519038076 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => 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: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, hence, if, so, while, for example, kind of
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 : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1469.0 1615.20841683 91% => OK
No of words: 293.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01365187713 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62666071792 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 176.041082164 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.552901023891 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 443.7 506.74238477 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 76.128728699 49.4020404114 154% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.416666667 106.682146367 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4166666667 20.7667163134 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 7.06120827912 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.485040787694 0.244688304435 198% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.171055923548 0.084324248473 203% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.151906944649 0.0667982634062 227% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.294221242127 0.151304729494 194% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.12334673786 0.056905535591 217% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.0946893788 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 50.2224549098 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.4159519038 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 78.4519038076 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => 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: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.