Teachers of young children at a primary school are considering making one major change to better support the educational and social development of their students (aged 6-10), which one of the following changes do you think is the most important for the teachers to make and why?
- Encouraging students to ask questions in class more frequently than they do now
- Having students work together in pairs or small groups more frequently than they do now
- Meeting with each student's parents more frequently than they do now
Primary school education is one of the founding blocks of a nation's prosperity. I believe that when teachers allow young children to work together in groups more, they can better promote their educational and social development.
First, working within a group enables young children to cultivate interpersonal skills. With the decrease in the birth rate in most countries, many children are now growing up without a sibling at home accompanying them. It can sometimes be difficult for these children to talk to other people, especially if they have faced emotional stress before. For example, bullying is commonplace in many primary schools and can cause mental problems in young children. And this often makes them unwilling to communicate with other people. However, if primary school students can work in groups, they will have more chances to talk to their classmates and even make friends. These social interactions offer them opportunities to practice people skills, such as negotiation, cooperation, or making concessions. With these skills at hand, they will communicate with others more efficiently, which can be crucial when they grow up.
Second, having students working together helps them academically. Although no one can be good at everything, someone can likely be good at something. If a child is doing poorly at a particular subject in school, other children who are good at it might help this child out while working together in groups. For example, a child who is weak at mathematics might receive help from his peers, helping this child overcome difficulties in mathematics. Moreover, teachers might not have a good understanding of children's perspectives, so they might explain ideas in a way that these children cannot easily comprehend. But when young students try to explain intricate concepts to one another, they are likely to share similar angles. Hence, making it more efficient for them to understand these ideas when having group discussions. And this eventually improves their grades at school.
To conclude, allowing students to work in groups helps them develop social skills and improves their academic performance.
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- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Many people nowadays spend too much money on their pets dogs cats or other animals although there are better uses for their money 83
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 61, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'nations'' or 'nation's'?
Suggestion: nations'; nation's
...tion is one of the founding blocks of a nations prosperity. I believe that when teacher...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, moreover, second, so, while, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 43.0788530466 77% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 52.1666666667 96% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1821.0 1977.66487455 92% => OK
No of words: 339.0 407.700716846 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37168141593 4.8611393121 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29091512845 4.48103885553 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85937041403 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 212.727598566 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.554572271386 0.524837075471 106% => OK
syllable_count: 541.8 618.680645161 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.4466527115 48.9658058833 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.8421052632 100.406767564 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8421052632 20.6045352989 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.26315789474 5.45110844103 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.235821400198 0.236089414692 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0812504368175 0.076458572812 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0444447769009 0.0737576698707 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162363158323 0.150856017488 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0518202457087 0.0645574589148 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 11.7677419355 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 58.1214874552 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.57 10.9000537634 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.01818996416 104% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 86.8835125448 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 61, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'nations'' or 'nation's'?
Suggestion: nations'; nation's
...tion is one of the founding blocks of a nations prosperity. I believe that when teacher...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, moreover, second, so, while, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 43.0788530466 77% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 52.1666666667 96% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1821.0 1977.66487455 92% => OK
No of words: 339.0 407.700716846 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37168141593 4.8611393121 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29091512845 4.48103885553 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85937041403 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 212.727598566 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.554572271386 0.524837075471 106% => OK
syllable_count: 541.8 618.680645161 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.4466527115 48.9658058833 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.8421052632 100.406767564 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8421052632 20.6045352989 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.26315789474 5.45110844103 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.235821400198 0.236089414692 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0812504368175 0.076458572812 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0444447769009 0.0737576698707 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162363158323 0.150856017488 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0518202457087 0.0645574589148 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 11.7677419355 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 58.1214874552 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.57 10.9000537634 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.01818996416 104% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 86.8835125448 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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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.