What age would you put this child at?

[Cbeebiesisdifferentonasaturday]

For writing etc? Any teachers to give feedback would also be very helpful 🙏

3 or 4?

5-6.

5 ish

4-5

6?

I’m not a teacher, but I would put that writing at reception level - 4 or 5 years old. It’s legible and they’re using capitals and lower case correctly. Doggy Land sounds lovely 😁

I would say that child hasn’t been taught writing in an English school?

I have seen preschoolers capable of writing like that, but it's pretty rare. I'd say 5.

https://donnayoung.org/penmanship/cursive.htm

These are FANTASTIC worksheets, my DSs (2 of them) handwriting was abysmal, and showed great improvement after doing these (and they're free)

Maybe around 4-5, but the letter formation is odd, particularly the y.

5/6

5- I too want to know more about doggy land! 😂

I would say 5 or 6 but this being g mumsnet you will.have posters saying their toddlers write better.

Interesting. What makes you say that?

Well my middle one could write like this at 4/5 but my older one had crap hand writing and it wasn't much better at 6

Just showed DH who is a primary school teacher. He says if that child is in reception (age 4-5) they’ve not been taught writing the correct / standard way taught in English schools. The letter formation is badly incorrect and they teach correct letter formation from day 1 in reception. He therefore guesses pre school self / incorrectly taught…

Six

Anything from 3-6. Lots of reception age kids write like that.

I want to go to doggy land, how cute!

About 5. Looks similar to what DD was producing in reception

I'm waiting for the OP to come back and inform us that their gifted child is 2 years old and a genius.

5-6

It looks like the child has not learnt any letter formation, so they are drawing the shapes they know they need, rather than forming the letters in the way they would normally be taught. So I’d guess it is a child who hasn’t started school yet.

It depends. If they were copying it from elsewhere, maybe as young as 3. My daughter would “write” at this age, for example on a birthday card - but only if we had wrote it out on paper for her to copy, obviously. She had no understanding of what she was writing, how letters should be formed etc.

If they wrote it independently, tricky one. The spelling is pretty good and I’d put the spelling ability way above their ability to form letters. Spelling wise, maybe 6? Letter wise, 4?

@legallyblond

There are a lot of ways to ‘teach’ writing, so it is not wrongly taught! What a silly thing to say… especially from a primary teacher

That's why I'd say 3-4 because it's similar to what both mine were producing at that age. But I'd taught them myself and they were not forming the letters in "the school taught way". Didn't do them any harm when they went to school tho, just passed the time while I was off with them.