Can anyone advise. Just been going through ds's books and I'm aghast at how completely bloody awful his writing is. I've always known it was weak but I'm looking at it now and panicking about how bad it is, and how inadequate to the demands of the secondary curriculum.
He's a bright kid (got his level 6 maths with no practice at home, no tutoring and no parental input, and is playing piano at grade 5) and is a reasonable reader but his writing is eye-wateringly bad. Not just bad handwriting (big, hard to read, sloping down the page) but his punctuation is non existent poor, he can't construct anything other than simple sentences, rubbish spelling (issues with homophones), and a complete inability to structure a coherent paragraph.
He's getting support at school with his handwriting which appears to be having no impact at all, but isn't getting any extra support with literacy.
While we're waiting for the school to respond to our concerns, what would you suggest I do with him to help? Would it be completely knob-ish for me to ask the school if he could see the ed psyche?
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