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?

I missed this sorry OP. Yep your DD just turned 6 turning this past few months, and producing this isn't anything to worry about. As I said, 4 or 5 year old could produce this, but some wouldn't til they were 6-7. Like I said, children are all different.

Perfectly fine. Don't fret!

Yes it is.

DGS writes like that. He’s 6.

4 or 5

@LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway what is your "proof" then or evidence that 4 year olds can do this? Independently and not copying.

I'd say 5 to 8 years old.

If she's still unwell, don't worry about the writing itself, keep it entertaining for her - you could focus on more fun activities to build control and grip strength... Colouring books, drawing pictures, painting, cutting paper with scissors, play-dough, plasticine, magic sand, pen and paper games like noughts and crosses, connect the dots, or pictionary

At six I don't think you have anything at all to worry about, but it is good that you are attentive to this.

And it sounds like you have some lovely gifts to look forward to!

I privately educate my child and at 9 she couldn’t read still. She was eventually diagnosed with dyslexia and she’s soared since

hat in saying is it doesn’t really matter. I worried so so so badly and thought how behind she was. Now she’s got the right things in place she’s flying ahead. But she’ll do it. Even if not in the same timeframe. She’ll do it.

Reception children won't have learnt how to spell words like bear or care yet. Some may be able to write like this at the end of reception but not at this point. The children are all still learning single letter sounds, they won't be learning digraphs and trigraphs yet.
The brighter chipdren in reception will be able to write simple words such as 'mum' 'cat' 'hat'. They might know a few of the common tricky words such as 'to' and 'the'.

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And OP you shouldn't be comparing . Your daughter has been unwell. Will catch up later. Don't waste your resources on worrying and comparing. I hope your daughter continues to get better

So sweet! Sounds like you have a lovely thoughtful daughter.
My son is 7.5 years now (yr 3)and only in the last few months has he finally stopped turning certain letters around... with very little/no input from me either (besides pointing out that his S or J or whatever are back to front). I just focus on encouraging him to enjoy what he learns at school and him reading a few mins (5 max) ideally every night but on average 3 nights per week in term time. He’s otherwise bright and curious and doing just fine. He is strong in maths snd sciences according to teachers. I read to him every night. She will get there. 😀🌸

Stop worrying about her writing. It's not terrible for 6 anyway, I even if she hadn't been ill. Focus on reading & maths, the writing will come. Also don't stop reading TO her, that's very important.

but the MOST important thing is being Mummy. Just loving & looking after her, making her feel safe & secure with you.

the educational stuff she'll catch up on if she needs to, feeling pressured to do school work will turn her off education. Make reading fun when she wants to, not a chore.

In many countries she wouldn't even be at school yet, but we don't look at adults from those countries & see portly educated people with scruffy handwriting do we??

honestly just chill & be there with her, play with her, talk to her, bake, craft etc & stop worrying about hand writing??

I hope she's getting much better! Is it likely to cause her ongoing health issues?

So she is a summer born year 2.
I have dgs who is September born age 6 but year 1 and his isn't as confident as that free hand.

I hope she is getting better poor thing it's a long time to be off and hard to settle back in.
We use CPG books and they have a handwriting one. When I was a kid I used to love copying poems and passages to practice italic writing but now I don't believe in all this pen licence rubbish.
I hope your DD can get settled back into school without any problems.💐

I'm a Reception teacher. Out of the 60 children in my EYFS unit, there is not a single one who could spell 'care' or 'bear' independently at this point in the year. Copy, yes of course, but that's a completely different thing. As above, trigraphs aren't taught until much later in Reception/in Year 1 in most phonics programmes.
In answer to the OP I would have said 6.

Never know a 4 year old who can write and spell that well. I think her writing is about right for her age, possibly a bit advanced even.
It's a beautiful piece of work though. Regardless of anything else you have a loving and thoughtful child.

Best wishes to your DD. I hope she gets fully well soon. I think the spelling is excellent and the handwriting will come. Just focus on her getting better and she will catch up (if she even needs to).

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Don't be so daft.

of course legible hand writing is important, but between now & GCSE (or whatever by the she gets to that age) she has plenty of time to develop nice handwriting.

From the style of the figures, Four. {Crosses for hands} -but that could be a bear?

I would say about 5/6

My husband’s writing is illegible. He’s vastly vastly more successful than me with my beautiful handwriting.

Sounds like you’re focusing on the right thing, her health.

I love that she made that list for you!
She will develop more when she returns to school, I'd keep praising and encourage writing. You have such a lovely little girl. Try not to worry.

I think some people aimed lower in ages as most posts like this I've seen are normally more, 'how old do you think my child is' with picture on par with van Gough and they then say 'my child is 3 months old' (I'm being dramatic, but you get the idea).

Your daughter's handwriting is clear and eligible and she's obviously made a start on developing it. But if you're worried, it's important to remember that handwriting is a motor skill, which can be hampered by lack of practice, illness and stress among other things. I have a distinct memory of being in class at about her age and getting confused about 'b' and 'd' and which way round they went. I was at that stage well ahead with reading and could chatter nine to the dozen. The moment passed, but I'll never forget the sense of panic I felt about 'b' and 'd!'

If your daughter has been off school for months because of illness, she won't have had many opportunities to work on her writing. Who gives a poorly child handwriting practice after all? But poorly children read and are read to and that may well be why her reading has come on so well in spite of her illness. Where she is now is probably a reflection of temporary circumstances, which will be ameliorated once she's back at school; in the meantime, she's grasped the basics of writing and is ahead in other areas. I shouldn't worry too much.

Please don’t worry, it looks like my sons writing through later years of primary school, he now has a masters from Oxford and is starting a PhD. His writing hasn’t improved much tbh, but he does everything on a computer and so no one cares!
We spent a lot of time stressing him and us about it, and I now wish I had spent that time just enjoying him.

If you continue to be concerned, then you might want to consider dysgraphia. My DD was diagnosed at the end of year 1, when we went to see an ed psych about something else. She was diagnosed because of the massive gap between her handwriting ability and pretty much everything else.

I wasn't convinced that she really had it and wouldn't catch up, because she had missed a lot of school in the covid years. But a few years on and I'm confident that she has dysgraphia, as does DH.

Lots of practice means that she can form letters properly, but she still finds handwriting really hard and her handwriting lacks punctuation and spaces. She types quite a lot of her work at school and you wouldn't think the same child had produced her typed work as her handwritten work. Of all of the various specific learning disorders, dysgraphia seems to me the easiest to deal with because typing covers most situations.