What age would you say this was written by?

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Just curious. DD's teacher doesn't give much away (even at parents night) so would be intrigued as to what age child you would expect this work to have been done by?

Between 4-6.
However my teen has similar handwritting, and is predicted several 9s at GCSE next year.

I wouldnt worry if its an older child, just keep practicing.

4-5?

Spelling of couch is perfectly logical.

I'd say maybe age 6?

She's in reception and just turned 5 ☺️ she's my eldest so I have no idea of what's good and what's not at certain ages and her teacher just passively tells me she's doing well but I'm sure she says that to all the parents so it's very vague.

I can't believe how rapidly they learn once they start at school. In September she could piece together a 3 letter word and now she can do this completely independently so to me that's great, but like I say, I've no idea what they should be able to do at that stage. Thanks for the reassurance. Sounds as though she's on track for her age

Ds1 could have written that at 3, dd at 3, ds2 at 6 and ds3 (4yrs old) would barely be able to form any of the letters.

Ds1 could have written that at 3

Wow! That's^^ impressive!

Your daughter is doing just fine. As long as she enjoys school then all is good.

Impressive at 3 yes but essentially meaningless, but kids develop at different rates. Ds2 couldn't have written that till he was 6 but since it "clicked" he is teeming ahead.

I would say 5 or 6.

Love ‘cawch’

I'd have said yr 1 or yr 2

I've no idea what they should be able to do at that stage.
If you really want to know you can Google the eyfs framework.

Cross posted with you.

She’s doing well then 😊.

Aww, that’s lovely!
I do like the phonetic teaching we have now. You get a little snapshot of their brain processes.
DS1 was taught proper spelling. His homework about our dog had a lot of red pen

DS3 wrote a bit of homework about the dog and she was ‘cyoot’, ‘dreedy’ and ‘ ‘feree’ (cute’ greedy and furry)
7 team points!

DS3 is in yr1 and doing well.
Keep learning fun for them as much as you can in these early years. Better to stop before they’re bored and leave them wanting more.

I'd have guessed Foundation.

If that's completely independent writing then I'd say she's doing very well: using her phonics (did well to hear the final "ng" phoneme rather than just an "n") and has remembered a couple of key words.

I'd say her next steps are to remember her fingerspaces and to work on her letter formation and consistent letter size (which would have been easier on lined paper).

About 4, I would have said.

I used to get my daughter to read her little decodeable books and then actually copy a sentence or two out of them onto handwriting practice notebooks (with the multiple lines that aid letter height/formation). That way, they start getting to grips with things like periods, word spacing and punctuation.

Thanks all. Sounds as though she's on track which is what I was hoping for

DS could write like that in reception. He’s year 5 now and is ‘ahead’ in reading and maths. Struggling with spelling, on target for English and has lovely hand writing.

Someone will be along in a minute to say their child wrote that at 2 days old!

It’s very good. It’s exciting watching them progress isn’t it?

And in fact I’ve had kids in year 7 who write like that, and don’t improve much as they get older. Thoroughly depressing at that age.

5

Or a 17 year old who got given a mobile phone at 5.

It’s very good. It’s exciting watching them progress isn’t it?

I absolutely love it great feeling to see them learning.

Love cawch, it looks like Welsh 😂

It’s very good for this point in reception if it was written independently. I’m surprised they’re managed to cover so many sounds already.

Very similar to my just turned 5 reception aged child, who seems to be slightly ahead of her peers in terms of reading and writing.