What age would you say my child was

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From this?

Please be honest.

My dc has been ill since June and unable to attend school, I’ve been doing some work with her at home, however, she’s too ill
most of the time and my main focus is on getting her better. Her educational development is niggling away at me a little now though. She reads well, is eloquent in her speaking and her maths seems good. Her writing to me seems lower than it should be, will she catch up when better?

HNRTFT but I would guess about 5-6 .
My handwriting is illegible and I am 60 !
Just enjoy your child and stop comparing..they are all different!

I would have said year 2.
Definitely not age 4/reception.....my summer born dd4 in reception is improving every week but still a long way off that level of writing, spelling and drawing!!

Oh give over. Most 4 year olds cannot spell care or bear independently at this point in the school year. They are very unlikely to have learnt the phonics sounds for it yet. Some 4 year olds are still in nursery.
A child could produce that work by copying. But it was implied that it was independent work.

I have a child in year 1 and her handwriting is worse, spelling is very hit and miss, so I'm going to guess anywhere between year 1 and year 3?

I wouldn’t be concerned at all OP - my youngest was writing like that way older than 6 and he is comfortably above average now at 14 . The best of luck to you both in getting her better .

Exactly this. Some real projecting going on on this thread. Some people getting very uptight because other posters are saying their child could write like this at 4. Some are refusing to believe it. Just because your children couldn't, that doesn't mean other peoples children can't.

I’d say about 4.

I’m surprised people saying reception or year 1. It’s clearer than my Yr1 DC and his teacher is thrilled with his writing.

I see you can't provide a source for your made-up statistic that 99% of 4 year olds can't spell.

Thought you wouldn't be able to. Because that statistic is rubbish.

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A 7/8 year old would be in year 3 and would be writing joined up.

It's a turn of phrase. I could edit to say "most' if it makes you happy?

Nice backpedalling! 😂

Same my son is in year two, he writes letters backwards still but is very good at reading.

I don’t have children so no skin in the game. But the huge majority of four year olds absolutely cannot write like this and cannot spell these words. Some protégés might, but it’s wrong to claim it’s usual.

I never back pedalled. You took something from what I wrote that was never there. You'd have found something to dig at no matter what I put.

Oh cool the drama. She just wanted reassurance the writing is about where it should be.

Chilling my arse.

And that... is the perfect response. Please don't be anxious mum. In a few years when you read that your only reaction will be an overwhelming surge of love. Honest. I've been there 🥰

If you wanted a little activity for her to do that's not too strenuous I'd get her some of those wipeable books with a pen that practice letter formation. You can get them from amazon. It will be easier for her if she doesn't get the wrong way of forming letters too ingrained IMO.

At 6 and a little bit I wouldn't worry OP, but nearly 6 months of illness sounds awful - is she on the mend now? I hope so, poor little thing.

We are saying the majority of children in Autumn term in Reception cannot spell those words independently. Which they can’t. EAR is a phase 3 phoneme usually taught in Y1, split digraphs also usually taught in Y1.

Of course there will be outliers, but that wasn’t what was asked.

I imagine the parent of a child so ill that they have been off school for 5 months will be anxious and concerned about many things, and that the writing is probably about a million items down the list from OP's primary concern.

I can't imagine trying to keep my sick child on track with their education like that. Hopefully the thread has reassured OP that all is well on the writing front.

I was going to say 6 before I saw your update. I brought up my concern about handwriting at my kid's recent parents evening and they reassured me that they focus more on the phonics/building blocks of the words and the actual writing/form of the letters just comes with time

Please don't worry 💕

It really isn't.

I’d guess around age 6

I agree. CHILL @ShinyPebble32