I'd really appreciate advice on how to help DD improve her writing/spelling/punctuation. To me her writing shows good expression and atmosphere, but gets really let down by basic spelling/grammar. Unfortunately her school (state primary) don't seem to correct her work so any improvement is slow. She wrote a story this morning, the first two paragraphs are copied below. I'd really appreciate both some perspective on the standard, and also advice on how to improve the punctuation and spelling. Ideally we would like DD to apply for a selective school, but she would need to improve over the next year to have a chance.
Suddenly a bird grabbed it. "NOOO!" I screamed all was lost there was no hope left.
Whaite I should tell my story from the beginning
Well It all started like this:
One morning as I combed my short jet black hair watching my twin sister read. Looking in the wadrobe I decide to wear my silk turquoise dress. Then my sister just asked me "what does this mean?" "retsprah a tori noaT." "It probably backwards" I replied "because the capital letter is at the back not the frount"
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Roastchicken · 28/06/2015 16:33
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