What age/year at school, would you put my Dc ar?

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Looking at this?

Also kids tend to write capitals either when:

• they've been taught capitals/letter names at home or from american tv shows like cocomelon, before learning lower case & phonic sounds properly at school
• they struggle with fine motor making curved letters

Both mean you can't tell the school year from the letter formation

My child produced work like this in nursery and I work as a supply teacher and have seen A LOT of reception age children write like this at this point in the school term and I don’t live somewhere that is outstanding or privileged, quite the opposite.

The handwriting and letter formation I think is an age 4-5 child but the spelling/sentence structure is more like 6-7 year old child. I’d say the child who produced it may have SEN (either an older child with dyslexia or a younger child with dyspraxia).

Yeah I agree. Not nursery unless the child is being taught by their parents (or the words are being spelt out for them to write).

My DC is in a very pushy preschool and they've done CVC words and the occasional "tricky word" like "the", but are only just starting on digraphs since Christmas.

Based on the handwriting of my DS and his peers (all summer born Year 1s), I'd say Reception.

Is it common for young children to use capital letters in place of lower case as I thought capitals weren't taught until later (unless in their names).

Nursery?! They aren't writing in nursery 😂

Year 1

Age 5

4

If this is a recent piece of work, definitely no more than the current Reception.

Year 1 handwriting, year 2 spelling

Is this homework or just a piece of writing they've done for fun?

Reception - wouldn't meet Expected Standard for Y1.

Reception

4 ish but taught by you rather than using standard Read Write Inc because of the mixing of capital letters and the spelling isn’t phonetic.

What I mean by that is it looks like something that has been copied or spelled by a parent rather than independently generated. The handwriting and the sentence structure are mismatched.

I can't figure out the end "and Dad made me a mawp soot?"

It's interesting to see capitals dotted around so not Reception. I would say child with SEN in Y3/4.

Maui suit ( Moana) written Mawy, I think

Reception/year one

Year 1

Thank you. I'm sure that's an i at the end not a y so good spelling unless helped.

DD would have written more neatly at 5 but wouldn't have spelled "beach" correctly till 6.
DS was writing like that at 7.

Reception

For the handwriting alone I would say reception, but other things point to an older child.

Maybe year 2 so 6 or 7?