Some people think reading stories in books is better than watching TV or playing computer games for children. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Books have been viewed as an important tool to promote children’s learning. Although some parents believe that reading books offers more benefits to children than allowing them to access technologies such as watching TV or playing computer games, I am more convinced that books and technologies are equally important for children’s development.
Admittedly, reading stories is one of the common ways to stimulate children’s language and literacy competence. Children learn and memorise new vocabularies through the reading process, which in turn improves their literacy skills. Furthermore, during the story time storytime, teachers and parents can intentionally ask open questions to interact with children, allowing them to express their thoughts and feelings, which could eventually enrich their vocabularies and enhance their language acquisition. For these reasons, books play an essential role in promoting children’s learning outcome.
However, many people seem to overlook the educational benefits that technologies can bring to children. One prominent feature of modern technologies is its advantage in promoting children’s cognitive development and enhancing their sense of belonging. For example, many computer games contain highly complex and abstract instructions, which requires children to develop necessary problem-solving skills and critical thinking skills. In addition, quality educational TV programme such as BBC Animals enhances children’s understanding of the world, providing an opportunity for them to better connect with the community. Therefore, modern digital technologies can be used as an effective tool to reinforce children’s educational learning.
In conclusion, this essay argued that despite books having its advantage in developing children’s language and literacy skills, technological devices can also support children’s cognition and their sense of belonging. They are both instrumental to strengthen children’s learning outcome.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: programmes
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Suggestion:
...gthen children's learning outcome.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, however, look, so, then, therefore, for example, in addition, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 41.998997996 67% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1755.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 275.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.38181818182 5.12529762239 125% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.44878754596 2.80592935109 123% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 176.041082164 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.596363636364 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 522.0 506.74238477 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.60771543086 118% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.4465795131 49.4020404114 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.0 106.682146367 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1538461538 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.92307692308 7.06120827912 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => 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: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232569409704 0.244688304435 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0892650611758 0.084324248473 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0628204253166 0.0667982634062 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149837674116 0.151304729494 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0642862556516 0.056905535591 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.2 13.0946893788 147% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 24.78 50.2224549098 49% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.3001002004 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 19.72 12.4159519038 159% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.13 8.58950901804 118% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 78.4519038076 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 20.0 10.7795591182 186% => 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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