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.
Parents throughout the world place spend time reading with their offspring to prepare them for school where their literacy skills are further developed; however, recent research suggests that focusing on reading at an early age can be detrimental, and participating in fun activities would be far more beneficial. I am a strong advocate of this approach, and the benefits of it will be covered in this essay.
A fundamental reason for this is that there is no biological age for reading, and pushing infants to acquire this skill before they are ready could have repercussions. For example, in the UK, many boys are reluctant readers, possibly because of being forced to read, and this turned them off reading. By focusing on other activities and developing other skills such as creativity and imagination, when they are ready to read, they usually acquire this skill rapidly. In addition, the importance of encouraging creativity and developing a child’s imagination must be acknowledged. Through play, youngsters develop social and cognitive skills, for example, they are more likely to learn vocabulary through context rather than learning it from a book.
Furthermore, play allows youngsters to mature emotionally, and gain self-confidence. There is no scientific research which suggests reading at a young age is essential for a child’s development, moreover, evidence suggests the reverse is true. In Finland, early years’ education focuses on playing. Reading is only encouraged if a child shows and interest in developing this skill. This self-directed approach certainly does not result in Finnish school leavers falling behind their foreign counterparts. In fact, Finland was ranked the sixth best in the world in terms of reading.
Despite being a supporter of this non-reading approach, I strongly recommend incorporating bedtime stories into a child’s daily routine. However, reading as a regular daytime activity should be swapped for something which allows the child to develop other skills.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, however, if, moreover, so, for example, in addition, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 7.0 271% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 1.00243902439 599% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 6.8 147% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 3.15609756098 190% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 5.60731707317 428% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 33.7804878049 115% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 3.97073170732 201% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1727.0 965.302439024 179% => OK
No of words: 312.0 196.424390244 159% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.53525641026 4.92477711251 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 3.73543355544 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0571211099 2.65546596893 115% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 106.607317073 175% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.599358974359 0.547539520022 109% => OK
syllable_count: 521.1 283.868780488 184% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.45097560976 117% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 1.53170731707 326% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.33902439024 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 0.482926829268 1035% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 3.36585365854 208% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 8.94146341463 168% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.4926829268 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.1218703658 43.030603864 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.133333333 112.824112599 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8 22.9334400587 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.46666666667 5.23603664747 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 3.70975609756 350% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.09268292683 24% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.134143558502 0.215688989381 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.046920768983 0.103423049105 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0397556495343 0.0843802449381 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0827735460358 0.15604864568 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0293916325469 0.0819641961636 36% => 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: 15.1 13.2329268293 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 61.2550243902 70% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.3012195122 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.85 11.4140731707 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.18 8.06136585366 114% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 40.7170731707 221% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.4329268293 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.9970731707 91% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.0658536585 136% => 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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