How old is the child thay wrote this?

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Taking into account handwriting and spelling? The two seem incongruous to me.

I don't think sentence complexity will help as I am pretty sure she rushed this, so was churning out sentences vs. concentrating on sentence structure.

The irony of my typo in the headline 😔

The child is spelling lots of the words phonetically, but the spellings really nest. Do they have Dyslexia? My three children are Dyslexic and would often spell words phonetically.

6 or 7

I was just coming on to say similar.

When my DD was in year 2, some of her peers had handwriting like that. She didn't and still doesn't in year 5.

My child is year 4 and writing isn’t as neat but spelling is better.
Always found it strange our school introduce letters to prepare for cursive writing but never advance to it

Year 2 or 3, based on DD's class.

We've been considering dyslexia for a while now.

She's 8 (year 3) - her writing has always been very tidy (she has excellent fine motor skills, good at anything small and fiddly) - but her spelling is a good year 'behind' (according to her school reports).

She took a long time to pick up reading, but her reading-age is now above average for year 3. But spelling is a real struggle.

She is given extra spelling help at school (including Nessy) - but because she can get 20-out-of-20 in her spelling tests, the school aren't really concerned about dyslexia.

I've realised that she uses really complicated rhymes and to remember her spellings:

Flight = "figs look I've got hairy toes", for example.

She's got an amazing memory, and is smart in many ways, but I feel like she can't tell by sight when a word doesn't 'look right',

It's impossible to tell. The variation is just so wide and different schools teach differently.

Her penmanship is better than my 9 year old and miles better than my 7 year old!

I think 7ish

Year 2/3 so aged 6-8

8ish

8-9, reads well but hasn’t really ‘caught’ spelling as would be expected from the amount they read , so probably a bit of a spiky profile with some literacy skills better than others. Probably doesn’t meet school criteria for concern as they average out the scores so not considered at risk of not developing literacy. Ie probably a little bit dyslexic (by Y4 I realised my daughter needed extra help with spelling etc and it wasn’t just going to iron itself out) As an ex primary school teacher I thought the most important thing was that she didn’t lose confidence and limit what she had to say to what she could easily spell.

You think a 4 year old could write like that?

Handwriting is great but given the spellings I'd probably think year 2 so I'd settle on 3 between the two things.

Not in a state school

I'm not a big fan of spelling tests. I'm a year 2 teacher and her writing is quite typical of many children of this age.

The spellings are phonetically plausible. I think it's worth considering dyslexia and in the mean time read lots.

Hmmm. My 8yo has dyslexia and your description doesn’t scream dyslexia to me - he has terrible trouble making his writing legible, and spellings have been a huge struggle for him (5/10 is a good day). His reading has only just started to come up to near where it should be.

I actually did wonder about dyslexia when I read it as the spellings seemed to be behind the ability to write and use words.

Some of it reminded me of my friend who is dyslexic.

I have 6yo twins, nearly 7, in Y2- one of them would write "better" than this and one worse. So I'd say 7 on average.

The handwriting is consistent, the spelling not great, so I'd say Year 2. When I used to teach Year 2, I would have quite a few with beautiful handwriting and not do great spelling.

It took her AGES to get into reading, it was really really slow progress, and like several other posters, we worked really hard on keeping it fun, light and engaging, not some high pressure stressful pursuit.

She now reads for HOURS, she reads books and books and books (though I suspect she scan-reads a lot of it, because reading out loud is a lot slower paced) - but either way, I'm very happy that she's enjoying reading and when we discuss the books she's read, she shows good comprehension of them.

She is great at reading ad-hoc (packets, road signs, TV programs, billboards, etc.), it's just her spelling is a bit wobbly.

She's decent at maths, though some of her numbers come out backwards which I know can be a sign of dyslexia.

We have a lot of dyslexia in the family on both sides and across all three living generations, though DH and I aren't dyslexic.

I'd say year 2 to Year 4.

Are you serious?! My reception aged DD is quite advanced in writing, according to her teacher, and she is nowhere near this level!

Does she have other signs of dyslexia?

What is she like at maths? I.e. is she ahead at everything except spelling?

Are you wondering whether to seek a private assessment for dyslexia?

My dd is 8 and has recently been diagnosed with dyslexia. She can read surprisingly well, but has very little phonological awareness and terrible spelling.