I was wondering what the teachers here thought of this. My just turned 7 year old has always found writing tricky but is showing steady improvement now.
She came home with a little story she had written for fun the other day - she writes a lot for fun which is great. For most of her reception year and some of year 1 she would do everything she could to avoid writing anything. All the way through though she wrote "she" as "sye". I asked her how to spell she and she spelt it correctly straight away. There were other common words misspelt too which she does also know how to spell when asked. The less common words she has to stop and think about she does much better with.
Personally I think her mind is racing ahead with her story and she makes silly mistakes. I give her lots of praise for her imagination and effort but do say she needs to slow down a little and just check she is getting the right letters in her words. I'm not sure how to help her correct this without putting her off writing. She does have extra writing support at school and she has improved a lot but I'd like to help her at home too. What she puts down on paper though doesn't really reflect what she can do. Interesting when she types she is much more accurate because she can't go very fast and has to search for each letter.
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7 year old misspelling words
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Lindy2 · 25/06/2015 14:46
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