DD is 5 and this is her handwriting...

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... It's shockingly bad.

She was 5 in December. Her reading is much higher level.

I'm not concerned about the mirror letter/spelling, but the construction if the letters.

We're trying to get her better, but she will resist writing at any opportunity, gets cross if we ask her to correct her grip.

She has strong fingers and good fine motor (sews with tapestry needles, can do buttons up etc) she plays with play doh, tongs, tweezers, loves squeezing anything and everything lolol

What else can we do? It won't magically get better will it?

Looks like my dyslexic, dyspraxic offspring’s writing at that age. They could read ahead of age at primary so weren’t diagnosed til they were 15. Their writing is still appalling.

Absolutely nothing wrong with that for a five year old and the finger spacing is spot on. She’ll get there as she’s going in the right direction, just don’t make a fuss about it.

We think she's hyper-mobile.

She can bend her fingers back 90° etc. which might be part of the issue.