What age would you say my child was

Don't be so daft.

of course legible hand writing is important, but between now & GCSE (or whatever by the she gets to that age) she has plenty of time to develop nice handwriting.

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Best wishes to your DD. I hope she gets fully well soon. I think the spelling is excellent and the handwriting will come. Just focus on her getting better and she will catch up (if she even needs to).

Never know a 4 year old who can write and spell that well. I think her writing is about right for her age, possibly a bit advanced even.
It's a beautiful piece of work though. Regardless of anything else you have a loving and thoughtful child.

I'm a Reception teacher. Out of the 60 children in my EYFS unit, there is not a single one who could spell 'care' or 'bear' independently at this point in the year. Copy, yes of course, but that's a completely different thing. As above, trigraphs aren't taught until much later in Reception/in Year 1 in most phonics programmes.
In answer to the OP I would have said 6.

So she is a summer born year 2.
I have dgs who is September born age 6 but year 1 and his isn't as confident as that free hand.

I hope she is getting better poor thing it's a long time to be off and hard to settle back in.
We use CPG books and they have a handwriting one. When I was a kid I used to love copying poems and passages to practice italic writing but now I don't believe in all this pen licence rubbish.
I hope your DD can get settled back into school without any problems.💐

Stop worrying about her writing. It's not terrible for 6 anyway, I even if she hadn't been ill. Focus on reading & maths, the writing will come. Also don't stop reading TO her, that's very important.

but the MOST important thing is being Mummy. Just loving & looking after her, making her feel safe & secure with you.

the educational stuff she'll catch up on if she needs to, feeling pressured to do school work will turn her off education. Make reading fun when she wants to, not a chore.

In many countries she wouldn't even be at school yet, but we don't look at adults from those countries & see portly educated people with scruffy handwriting do we??

honestly just chill & be there with her, play with her, talk to her, bake, craft etc & stop worrying about hand writing??

I hope she's getting much better! Is it likely to cause her ongoing health issues?

So sweet! Sounds like you have a lovely thoughtful daughter.
My son is 7.5 years now (yr 3)and only in the last few months has he finally stopped turning certain letters around... with very little/no input from me either (besides pointing out that his S or J or whatever are back to front). I just focus on encouraging him to enjoy what he learns at school and him reading a few mins (5 max) ideally every night but on average 3 nights per week in term time. He’s otherwise bright and curious and doing just fine. He is strong in maths snd sciences according to teachers. I read to him every night. She will get there. 😀🌸

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And OP you shouldn't be comparing . Your daughter has been unwell. Will catch up later. Don't waste your resources on worrying and comparing. I hope your daughter continues to get better

Reception children won't have learnt how to spell words like bear or care yet. Some may be able to write like this at the end of reception but not at this point. The children are all still learning single letter sounds, they won't be learning digraphs and trigraphs yet.
The brighter chipdren in reception will be able to write simple words such as 'mum' 'cat' 'hat'. They might know a few of the common tricky words such as 'to' and 'the'.

I privately educate my child and at 9 she couldn’t read still. She was eventually diagnosed with dyslexia and she’s soared since

hat in saying is it doesn’t really matter. I worried so so so badly and thought how behind she was. Now she’s got the right things in place she’s flying ahead. But she’ll do it. Even if not in the same timeframe. She’ll do it.

At six I don't think you have anything at all to worry about, but it is good that you are attentive to this.

And it sounds like you have some lovely gifts to look forward to!

I'd say 5 to 8 years old.

If she's still unwell, don't worry about the writing itself, keep it entertaining for her - you could focus on more fun activities to build control and grip strength... Colouring books, drawing pictures, painting, cutting paper with scissors, play-dough, plasticine, magic sand, pen and paper games like noughts and crosses, connect the dots, or pictionary

@LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway what is your "proof" then or evidence that 4 year olds can do this? Independently and not copying.

4 or 5

DGS writes like that. He’s 6.

Yes it is.

I missed this sorry OP. Yep your DD just turned 6 turning this past few months, and producing this isn't anything to worry about. As I said, 4 or 5 year old could produce this, but some wouldn't til they were 6-7. Like I said, children are all different.

Perfectly fine. Don't fret!

I agree. CHILL @ShinyPebble32

I’d guess around age 6

It really isn't.

I was going to say 6 before I saw your update. I brought up my concern about handwriting at my kid's recent parents evening and they reassured me that they focus more on the phonics/building blocks of the words and the actual writing/form of the letters just comes with time

Please don't worry 💕

I imagine the parent of a child so ill that they have been off school for 5 months will be anxious and concerned about many things, and that the writing is probably about a million items down the list from OP's primary concern.

I can't imagine trying to keep my sick child on track with their education like that. Hopefully the thread has reassured OP that all is well on the writing front.

We are saying the majority of children in Autumn term in Reception cannot spell those words independently. Which they can’t. EAR is a phase 3 phoneme usually taught in Y1, split digraphs also usually taught in Y1.

Of course there will be outliers, but that wasn’t what was asked.

If you wanted a little activity for her to do that's not too strenuous I'd get her some of those wipeable books with a pen that practice letter formation. You can get them from amazon. It will be easier for her if she doesn't get the wrong way of forming letters too ingrained IMO.

At 6 and a little bit I wouldn't worry OP, but nearly 6 months of illness sounds awful - is she on the mend now? I hope so, poor little thing.