How old would you say this child is ?

[Shitmum2024]

How old do you think the child who wrote this is?

I should have known really. As his other pages only have 2 or 3 lines 😅

I'd say 7/8 based on the choice of words and spelling.

but really natural to leap on a longer bit! It's all skills.

Even though the handwriting is not good, I would say older than 6. None of the 6 year olds in my school can write with such mature sentence structure and content. I would say more like age 8.

It’s copied @OneBadKitty

Handwriting looks like my teenage DS's, now 18 but anytime when he was in secondary. He got a 6/4 at GCSE, expected standard for SATs as he wrote in cursive on the day as instructed.

Are you saying you’d assess work a child copied as being at the expected standard?! Surely the only thing you can assess in that situation is handwriting? Or just that the child who originally wrote it is writing at expected standard for y3?

the child who copied it is in y4, so probably copied it off another y4, so that fits with it being acceptable y3 work.

I'd say about 6. Why?

End of reception.
Thats what all mine looked like end of reception

If it’s copied - we only have the handwriting to judge it by!
The handwriting is pretty poor but that is not an indicator of intelligence/ability! Over 30 years of primary school teaching has shown me that… many times.

3 or 4

The second paragraph is barely legible. No idea.

I'm not going to try to compare because my 18 year old with ASC and learning difficulties can just about manage vaguely recognisable inch high letters.

This was my Autistic DD's handwriting at the beginning of year 3

Year 2

That's lovely bless her heart 🥰

Reminds me of my diary entries from when I was 7

Seven or eight..

Dts couldn't copy for shit. They would look at spellings copy and do each one differently. Finally diagnosed dyslexic in y7.

The phrasing is fairly advanced but the handwriting and spelling are not. So I'd assume this is copied down. Probably about seven, or maybe a dyslexic 8-10 year old

A bright six or seven year old

Agreed. DH and DS are both dyspraxic and have very very similar writing and it looks like this. So I’m saying somewhere between 5 and 48

Neater then my non ND child who is 9, just leaving year 4. Hates writing so puts little effort in and is easily distracted. Struggles to get ideas onto paper but otherwise imaginative good with comprehension and voices ideas and opinions.

Don't like banging on about it but this age child is one of the most affected school years by Covid in education, behaviour and relationships.

Aside from that, each child is different in capability & interests :)

Don't compare children's ability my 1st child could right that at 7 but my youngest who's 6 still struggling at full name! It will happen in own time

9-10 years old