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?
In the last few years, the number of younger generation who read books for pleasure has declined substantially. This essay will outline the reasons behind the recent phenomenon as well as the way to resolve it.
First of all, one of the reasons is that the widespread use of smartphone at a young age has mostly replaced traditional reading. This can inflict youngsters experiencing technology addiction, Frontiers in Psychology, in the long run negatively affecting adolescent academic performance in modern society. Students may get distraction and lose concentration for completing school works. Moreover, kids lower literacy can be caused by the lack of parents support to upbringing children’s reading habits. Considering that, the hectic working day may cause a low presence of parents in child’s golden age contribute to an incompetence their self-growth. If every parent implement home reading practise from younger, the reading culture will be the same as in Japan.
Regarding aforementioned factors, the remarkable solution can be implemented through guiding child to find their convenient hobbies along with exposing to literature. Apparently, Western society has succeeded in promoting reading interest by narrating stories before sleeping. This can help children to recall what they are used to and what they do because they can learn by copying their environment at this age. Moreover, providing fascinating books through innovative learning media is shown capable to arouse a sense of curiosity. Together with enacting government literacy program, the usage of interactive tools in Japan can increase students' excitement for studying, resulting in a more enjoyable learning experience.
To sum up, several reasonable factors lie behind a phenomenon of children’s reading habits including unsupportive children’s closest environment and advance technology addiction. However, children fun reading may be encouraged towards leading to their interest and using modern playing books.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, but, first, however, if, may, moreover, regarding, so, well, as well as, first of all, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.3376753507 192% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1715.0 1615.20841683 106% => OK
No of words: 297.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.77441077441 5.12529762239 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08465657218 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.666666666667 0.561755894193 119% => OK
syllable_count: 521.1 506.74238477 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.6936726949 49.4020404114 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.333333333 106.682146367 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.2 7.06120827912 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => 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: 0.339088462371 0.244688304435 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0940039495954 0.084324248473 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0626113116736 0.0667982634062 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.200161632496 0.151304729494 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0320863242006 0.056905535591 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.27 50.2224549098 70% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.19 12.4159519038 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.32 8.58950901804 120% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 78.4519038076 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 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.