What age is the child who did these spellings?

[ageandstage]

And what age would you expect the child to get these words right?

The child in question asks me to give them words to spell, they think it's fun. I'm not forcing "work" on them in the holidays.
The correct spellings are my writing, the first set is my child's.

Oh no, read your update the child is 10. Hopefully that no it’s been flagged, she can get help with this.

I would say 9

I'd have spelt like that at that age. Dm reckoned I was mildly dyslexic for various reasons.

I can normally recognise the correct spelling but don't necessarily know how to get there, if that makes sense. Spell check is brilliant for me.
So, let's say I was asked to spell "relevant", I'd not know whether it was "relevent" "rellevent" "rellavent" "relavent" straight off. So I'd (if no spell check) write them all down and see which I thought looked right. However sometimes I can tell you they're all wrong, and don't know how to make it right.
I also have the issue that if I look at a word too long it can start looking wrong, and also if I see the word written wrong a few times I then won't be able to tell which is right.

I learnt spellings by rote. So I still say to myself "not-ice" when writing "notice" and things like that.
The good news is that as I've got older and more in on the computer with spell check, the less a problem it is!

I don’t know but I think speshil should be the proper spelling. Love it.

Year 1 phonics covers consider and arrive. Year 1s also cover quarters in maths so could well have picked up this spelling.

If it were my dd1, 5, if it was my dd2 10! Honestly, same parents, like chalk and cheese

To give you hope op, my dd "clicked" to a certain extent about age 13, got decent GCSEs, very good a levels, top Russell group university, 2:1 on a particularly tough course through covid... very successful in job now (too unusual to talk about)

5 or 6?

My DS hated English and writing and was far more interested in maths and science

He now only likes to read non fiction and still dislikes fiction

DD always wrote phonetically and would misspell words that were literally right in front of her

It did my head in

She's much better now but still a lazy speller and she's about to study an English A Level

This looks potentially like dyslexia, all of my kids have dyslexia & DH was suspected at school a long time ago (no one cared in those days) but he's recently been diagnosed. It looks similar to how they would attempt unfamiliar spellings.

All of them can read pretty well, but spelling is an issue, especially in pressurised situations & some of it is linked to issues with auditory processing but it's quite complicated - it's also hard for me to really understand since I am not dyslexic and not trained on all the processes that go into hearing / seeing / decoding / reproducing correctly! What is bizarre (to me) is that they can all learn words for tests but they don't seem to stick very well. Maybe a processing / working memory thing idk. You'd need an educational psychologist to get a proper understanding of your DCs profile.

The good news is that it doesn't have to hold them back especially if their understanding and comprehension are sound - dyslexic people are often extremely creative thinkers and problem solvers. All we need now if for a little dispensation when it comes to exams (aside from extra time) since in any other scenario there are tools to help with SpAG!

How long is a piece of string? I teach gcse students who couldn't spell this well and others in y7 who write and spell fluently! I would not expect anyone under 5 to write like that.

No way my dd would have for those in year 1 2 or 3.

@ageandstage

don't know how to spell it but mecmonics.. Eg

Should, oh u lucky duck.
Break down words into prefix and suffix.

Root words.