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 10.5418719212 180% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 6.10837438424 98% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 8.36945812808 119% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 5.94088669951 101% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 20.9802955665 114% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 31.9359605911 122% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.75862068966 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1724.0 1207.87684729 143% => OK
No of words: 312.0 242.827586207 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.52564102564 5.00649968141 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 3.92707691288 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0571211099 2.71678728327 113% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 139.433497537 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.599358974359 0.580463131201 103% => OK
syllable_count: 521.1 379.143842365 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.6157635468 108% => OK
Article: 2.0 1.56157635468 128% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 0.931034482759 537% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 3.65517241379 192% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 12.6551724138 119% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.5024630542 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.1218703658 50.4703680194 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.933333333 104.977214359 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8 20.9669160288 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.46666666667 7.25397266985 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 6.9802955665 186% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 2.75862068966 36% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 2.91625615764 34% => 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 0.242375264174 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.046920768983 0.0925447433944 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0397556495343 0.071462118173 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0827735460358 0.151781067708 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0293916325469 0.0609392437508 48% => 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: 15.0 12.6369458128 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 53.1260098522 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.9458128079 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.79 11.5310837438 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.18 8.32886699507 110% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 55.0591133005 163% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.94827586207 151% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.3980295567 96% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.5123152709 143% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 72.0 Out of 90
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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.