Does this look like dyslexia?

[SpinningTops]

DC is year 3. Would people say this writing indicates dyslexia?

I think there's something else going on. School are providing support regardless of diagnosis and are great.

I'm on the fence between dyslexia / ADHD due to general bonkersness and forgetfulness at home. Though I think all this could be indicative of either condition.

As a parent of a dyslexic child and with no professional qualifications I would say yes.

What strikes me is the phonetic spelling. "Dans" instead of "dance"

DDs writing at the same age made little sense to me until I read it phonetically (with a regional accent 😉)

That's quite a decent output though. How much time did that take? DD would have struggled to write that much in a standard class time until year 6 or older. She was tested in year 3 and had interventions thereafter.

She has pretty good stamina. She will m write quickly but with no thought about how to spell.
Often she'll spell things about 3 different ways in any one piece of work so not consistently wrong spelling.

In fact you can see it here with 'they' 'thay' and 'thaiy'

Following with interest. This looks like my y3 boys standard of writing and spelling. Personally I think mine has ADHD and writes / spells messy because he is in a rush all the time and not interested enough in presentation or spelling to take care. Your daughter has written a lot; much more than my son’s friend could (who has been diagnosed dyslexic). He is in y3 and often uses a computer with symbols instead of words for writing as actual writing is too difficult

Yes, it can be a bit like there's no time given to think about spelling, just a rush to get it all down. She spells her own name wrong quite often despite having known how to spell it since she was 3.

It's almost like the hand is working independently from her brain!

Bumping for anyone this morning ...

My dd is y3 and has dyslexia. No way could she write this much. Have you spoken to his teacher?

Looks like my DD at Y3 and she is dyslexic. Now 15 and still spells a lot of those words wrong, although has nailed her own name eventually.
Laptop, great work ethic (now, not at primary!), lots and lots of reading (audiobooks at y3 before she could read), subtitles on TV, promotion of all her other skills and a bit of a ‘don’t care’ attitude around spelling itself have all helped.
Absolute aversion to phonics and would not engage in any tutoring.

could be dyslexia although only way to know for sure is to have an assessment. However the school can (and should) put in place support without any further assessment. Has their teacher identified literacy issues? Have they had any extra intervention?

The writing reminds me of my dd (8) who we and the school are pretty sure is dyslexic. Does she also confuse left and right? Other signs like still putting clothes on the wrong way round or struggling with shoe laces?

Should have added she has had a couple of interventions to try and teach them spelling strategies.

How is she at word searches, most dyslexics find these incredibly hard. Also have you tried popping a piece of blue see through plastic over something she is trying to read, as most dyslexics find this helpful.
My husband, brother and dad are dyslexic.

Have a look at the screening checklist on the British Dyslexia Association website.

Teacher here...I teach secondary and have flagged work for similar spellings like this to the SENCO before for checking. Agree that there are patterns you notice, like extra letters on words or completely ommitted letters, rather than just getting letters mixed up or wrong.That said, sometimes they get to Y 8 or 9 before you have them/ it is noticed, because so much is done on laptops (private school)...which is why I get them to write the odd piece by hand to check progress. She's certainly focused and very creative, so it won't hold her back if picked up on asap.

I’m dyslexic and did write like that. Surprised (pun) no one has picked up sprisd. We miss out letters, words and lines

I used to write g starting with an o then did the tail starting at the very top

My only ‘qualification’ is that I’m dyslexic so take my opinion with a pinch of salt.

I don’t think it is. Only because the spelling is the only issue, she isn’t getting letters the wrong way round and doesn’t seem to struggle with any letter shapes in particular. And her handwriting is uniform all the way through.

My DS is dyslexic and I would say that his writing would be similar to this. He has no problem with writing a significant amount and really enjoys 'free writing' as he has a great imagination - but the spelling and missed letters etc would be very similar.

My DS had a great teacher who spotted his dyslexia quite early on. I had no experience of dyslexia but when I read about it, he had many traits I didn't know were a thing - problems understanding a list of instructions, mixing up the order of words when speaking, performing tasks out of sequence etc. Might be worth looking up other dyslexic traits and seeing if any more of them apply to your DD.

Another parent of a dyslexic child here - it does look very familiar. I was told that spelling the same word multiple different ways in a single piece of work was a strong indicator.

DD is now going into Y6. She has started using a laptop in the last 6 months and it has been an absolute game changer, to the extent that she won the academic prize for her class this year. A year ago, if I’m being absolutely honest, none of us could decipher what she was trying to say.

Please don’t worry too much - it will be ok. It’s just another way of looking at the world. DD is far (far!) better than I am at lots of things. Your DD will be her lovely self, with her own strengths. DH is also dyslexic and has been ten times more successful in his career than I have.

Three grown up dyslexic children here. Looks loads better than my kids writing but please don’t go into the write so fast they aren’t thinking about spelling. My children specialist teacher they had for so many hours a week all through school said to just write what you need eg story and she would figure out the spelling. One of my children concentrated so much on the spelling and nice handwriting that she dumbed down everything as that was the only words she could spell.
Encourage reading as much as you can. My children struggled with the reading for pleasure but educational psychologist said buy them comics. It took the pressure off and they loved reading them which translated into reading books for pleasure when older. One son really wanted to read Lord of the Rings. I bought it in a set where it wasn’t one large book that he would freak seeing. We bought lots of books as they didn’t have to worry about time limits for the library.
We tried the different coloured glass and it made no difference to any of them.
So every child is different.

Could be. Looks like she is a bit of a phonics victim. She is only using phonics to write, not any of the other reading searchlights such as HF irregular words, ("once") predictable letter patterns in English ("arrived/ played"). Her monitoring is poor (as you say, 3 different spellings of "they") which suggests that she is re-spelling the word each time rather than pulling on her word store - which could be a memory/storage/retrieval issue.

The content is rather simple for almost year 4 too, with limited internal consistency to the happenings in the story, it jumps about a bit, and is quite list- y, so it could be a general mild delay or a speech and language issue (some grammar issues such as "brang"). I would be doing a full cognitive assessment to try to shed some light and target the problem.

As an adult with dyslexia I would say yes it's worth pursuing a diagnosis

@SpinningTops "It's almost like the hand is working independently from her brain"

This is how I feel about myself! I'm diagnosed dyslexic as a late teen and ADHD in adulthood. My brain goes much faster than my hand can work at.

Hope you get the support you need.

It's looks like my dyslexic child's writing before diagnosis and learning strategies to get round it.

I find the way that kids are taught phonetically first can be really confusing for some, my daughter was one of them. It has taken her years to drop phonetic spelling and I have just let her develop in her own time. Now in secondary school her spelling is so much better but certain words still don't land with her. We did discuss dyslexia at primary school but neither the school or we felt that it was quite on that level. Sorry that maybe isn't helpful for you but just another perspective.

Oh sorry, I missed this post, yes I agree with this.