Doing an enjoyable activity with a child can develop better skills and more creativity than reading. To what extent do you agree? Use reasons and specific examples to explain your answer.

Some people support the opinion that reading is an enjoyable activity that not only fosters their literacy skill, but also stimulates their imagination. As reflected in recent studies, does not advance other abilities, which are crucial to a child’s early development. I strongly believe that whilst reading might be considered entertaining for some, it falls short on providing a fun avenue through which child’s other skills can be fostered.

Firstly, child’s participation in group activities such as sports is proven to develop their communication skills, ability to cope with failure, as well as spatial awareness and hand-and-eye coordination. Children create social bonds with their peers and develop cooperation skills that cannot be discernibly expended on by reading up on companionship and camaraderie. For instance, in the US, many tertiary education programs have a strong focus on applicant’s athletic, as well as academic success, which goes to demonstrate their discipline and dedication to keep up with set goals in a group environment. This is not to completely diminish the importance of reading as a way of cultivating a child’s imagination and creativity, however, it best done in conjunction with other activities to further child’s talents.

Secondly, reading is not the only avenue to pursue when developing a young mind’s creativity with a plethora of different recreational activities, such as painting, writing, or playing an instrument that are beneficial to child’s overall well-being. Creating art, rather than rather than reproducing scenes from novels is, arguably, a more active use of one’s imagination. Children are able to translate their thoughts and dreams onto paper or by playing and instrument, which ultimately helps them deal with their emotions and mental health, engaging in art therapy by effect. This is best illustrated in the study by Stanford University Graduate School of Education that tracked mental health of school-aged children and found that the group actively participating in arts and music classes with a counsellor’s guidance displayed better mental health.

To summarise, child’s active participation in sports, or pursuit of other creative outlets other than reading can not only be better for their motor skills, but also simultaneously support their mental well-being.

Votes
Average: 8.4 (1 vote)

Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: rather than
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, well, for instance, such as, as well as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 8.3376753507 240% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2044.0 1615.20841683 127% => OK
No of words: 356.0 315.596192385 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.74157303371 5.12529762239 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.2810479803 2.80592935109 117% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 176.041082164 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578651685393 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 615.6 506.74238477 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => 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: 29.0 20.2975951904 143% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 48.6361205507 49.4020404114 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 170.333333333 106.682146367 160% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.6666666667 20.7667163134 143% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.41666666667 7.06120827912 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => 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: 0.166775634233 0.244688304435 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0695708147073 0.084324248473 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0332050328973 0.0667982634062 50% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11129975581 0.151304729494 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00903995259018 0.056905535591 16% => 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: 20.4 13.0946893788 156% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.58 50.2224549098 67% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.44779559118 175% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 11.3001002004 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.6 12.4159519038 134% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.91 8.58950901804 115% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 78.4519038076 139% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.0 9.78957915832 163% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.1190380762 134% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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