Many parents believe that when their children read books for entertainment, they are wasting their time, and that they should read only serious, educational books. What is your opinion about this?

In today's fast-paced era each individual possesses his or her own leisure pursuits and reading is surely one of the best methods to bust stress. Children too develop this interest during their school days. Reading entertainment books rather than textbooks surely is a concern among majority of the parents. In my opinion, this hobby is certainly a good aspect of the children's personality as it proves to be very beneficial in their future.

To commence with, the advantages of reading books are numerous. Firstly, it proves to be the best means that encourages the child to build his knowledge reservoir. The parents are more worried about the academic grades than the overall development of a brood thus the books read for enjoyment prove to be futile in providing education in their viewpoint but this is not true. A child learns proper pronunciation of the words by going through the rhyme and story books. Secondly, reading promotes the building up of vocabulary in the young minds which in turn helps to develop language competence.

Furthermore, the school is an institution where educational books play the heroic character. Students are alloted limited library periods in a week so most of their time is devoted to syllabus. Entertaining books are needed to break the monotony of the school time-table. In addition to this reading only limited topics makes the children book-worms and they develop the habit of rote-learning whereas a flexible reader possesses ample knowledge which reflects in his or her performance academically.

To conclude, I reiterate my opinion by saying that reading variety of books and topics increases the horizon of children and makes them competent in life.

Votes
Average: 7.8 (1 vote)

Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'to develop'?
Suggestion: to develop
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, thus, whereas, in addition, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 7.85571142285 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1430.0 1615.20841683 89% => OK
No of words: 276.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18115942029 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8353156637 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.597826086957 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 440.1 506.74238477 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.8452366445 49.4020404114 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.142857143 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7142857143 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.21428571429 7.06120827912 102% => 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: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.320035761225 0.244688304435 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0950994951976 0.084324248473 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.057700179636 0.0667982634062 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177473086074 0.151304729494 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0302132252317 0.056905535591 53% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.21 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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