A lot of my reception DD's numbers and letters are the wrong way around

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Her name starts with ' S ' and she almost always writes it the wrong way around..
Same with ps ds bs.

I've also noticed it with numbers now 1s and 3s etc...

I think it's not unusual but in her it's very pronounced- could this indicate a problem, like dyslexia?

She seems to be able to read these letters just fine, it's just when she writes them - they're the wrong way around almost every time, no matter how many times I show her how to write an S, she almost always does it the wrong way.

I think this is perfectly normal, how old is she 4 or 5?, if in reception, you cannot expect such a young child who has only just started school to be able to write perfectly, give her chance.

She's 5 next month.

It's really normal. It's only convention that we write things left to right and they haven't learnt it yet. DD would often write whole words in mirror writing.

Perfectly normal in reception. Took dd ages to get the right way round. Maybe by year 1 or even later.

Very normal for her age, both mine (both otherwise top of their classes) did letters the wrong way round under about 7. I wouldn't worry about it too much, just gently remind, do some dot to dot letter boomed for muscle memory etc

I looked this up as my reception age daughter does this and there’s a history of dyslexia in our family. It’s meant to be perfectly normally up until around 7/8

I wrote some numbers and letters backwards up through third grade or so (age 8 or 9). I eventually learned to do it correctly.

I have never been diagnosed with dyslexia and I don't believe that I have dyslexia. I will say that I do sometimes transpose numbers when I'm looking at strings of numbers like phone numbers. I have a job where I do a lot of math and if my calculations come up wrong I know that I always have to go back and make sure that I put everything correctly. It's actually very odd because I will sometimes write the number down with the digits transposed but my brain will tell me that I did it wrong if that makes sense so I will write it that way and something in my head will say no that's not right. I've always just accepted it as a quirk of how I am and I wouldn't say that it's adversely affected my life.

My 7 year old still does it with b and d. Its perfectly normal for reception age

Like the others have said it’s normal. My 7 year old does this occasionally still.

Both my kids did this, it's normal.

My child did this and is dyslexic, but that wasn't the main sign to be honest. She also wrote sentences completely back to front, and school were impressed she could do it. The main sign for us was reading and spelling did not match up with verbal intelligence or comprehension when read to. Now she can read but her spelling is awful and still doesn't understand phonics for reading. She can sight read, but not use phonics to decode.

Completely normal. My twins are in year 2 at an excellent school and a good number of the class does this, including one of my twins.

Totally normal. My daughter did it for ages and she’s now a really advanced writer in yr 4

Teacher told us totally normal. DD1 does it sometimes and I asked at parents evening and she said it's entirely usual and they start spotting when they've done it themselves and correcting it.

Also, Leonardo da Vinci did mirror writing all his life!

This. I'm a retired Reception teacher and this is quite normal. S can be a very difficult letter to write.

Infant teacher of 40 years here, completely normal aged 4/5 often 6. She definitely won’t be the only one at this age. Just keep modelling the correct way, making sure to follow her particular school method ie where they start each letter/number from

Writing sentences back to front just means they've started on the wrong side of the page. It isn't a sign of dyslexia. It's only a convention to write from left to tight.

I've been an infant school teacher for a fairly long time. I'd say it's very normal in reception. Still really quite common in Year 1 but most who do it start to do it less frequently over the course of the year. By Year 2 it is less common but there are still always a few in a class of 30 who do it regularly and of those most don't turn out to have dyslexia but it can be an indicator.

Based on the Christmas cards my Year 1 DS received from his school friends, it's very normal. My brother is badly dyslexic and he was still doing it when he went to secondary school.

Nothing unusual...I did this too...M y parents despaired...I went on to learn 7 languages and work in higher education.

Completely normal for reception and early infants years. All 3 of my DC did this, only 1 is dyslexic and there were a lot of other signs of that which obviously didn’t improve as she got older (reading words backwards, interchanging words when reading etc).

Dc1 did this in reception, and was one of many signs of his dyslexia which reception teacher noted & watched from reception. Dc4 also does this & is 5 & in year 1 however he doesn’t do some of the other things that dc1 does. He is also improving since reception, still writes them but no issues reading them unlike sibling.

No she would mirror write the whole sentence. It wasn't a matter of just starting on the wrong side of the page.

All I can say is the signs that lead us to seek a formal diagnosis. This was one of a few.

I did "mirror writing" at that age. Everything was backwards and you had to hold it up to a mirror to read it. Apparently it's pretty common in young children. It phased out with me writing just a few words/letters backwards and finally ended by the time I was about 7.