My dd is 5 and in year 1. She's got excellent reading and comprehension skills and her sentence structure is also excellent. Whats not excellent is her handwriting. Every single letter than can be reversed is reverse. Every single number that can be reversed is reversed. All the letters are different sizes, all over the place, lying down, above the line, below the line, really a total mess.
Today I've got a note from the teacher saying that dd wouldn't pass her spellings until she writes the letters in the correct direction. Also dd says she was made to copy out all her maths and writing work yesterday until she got the letters and numbers in the right direction. She says she had to do it at least 70 times which I'm sure just means she had to do it more than once and not actually 70 times! We've also found at home certainly she's pressing so hard she's constantly snapping the pencil lead which just adds to the frustration.
We've got handwriting books etc and they seem to make no difference. The teacher has given us no guidance on how to help her, just told us to get her to stop doing it. We can't! If we could we would have done wouldn't we.
We're assuming we don't need to be worrying about it. Is that right? The only thing niggling at me is I'm dyslexic and what she's doing is similar to what I did. But my reading and comprehension skills weren't like hers are.
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Year 1 reversing letters and numbers
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rebl · 27/09/2011 17:14
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