AIBU about this homework?

[irishchick93]

Basically.....I'm wanting to know what age level does this look like to you?

I'm in Ireland so classes or different so say if you think 4years, 5years, 6years, 7 years etc

6 or 7

It depends on what it is. Are they the answers to a comprehension type exercise where the child can look at the text?

Yes completely copied text

It's hard to ask on this t website because we have a very different timeline for teaching language and phonics than the UK
Most schools only do single letters sounds and cvc words in Junior Infants and some of the sight words and some children are 6 and a half leaving juniors so there is no way they would achieve anything towards this level.
From looking at the homework (assuming it is independent writing) the handwriting looks 1st to 2nd class but there is some very good spelling like blue etc.

I'm in Ireland & it looks similar to my son in 1st class who is 7

I used to work as a teaching assistant in primary schools. If a kid had handwriting like that at age 8 they’d be getting support and extra help for it.

so on that basis any age below 8.

I’ve seen kids in reception with writing like that.

Handwriting I'd say England Reception so 4-5. Comprehension - correct tenses etc and good spelling could push it up to 7-8 so I'd say somewhere in the middle of that. 6?

5 year old. I have a 5 year old in junior infants and this was what his writing looked like before they started doing cursive writing.
His homework takes 45 minutes to get through though which I think is too much for that age.

4-5. My mum has some stuff I did in reception and it looked similar.
Id be a little worried if that child was 8.

5 years

Many children in school in Ireland don't start till 5 and a half so it would not at all be unusual for an 8 year old to be writing like this . There are lots of 8 year olds in first class.
I know when I taught Junior Infants they didn't write a letter until after Christmas.

This isn’t writing a letter though. It’s reading and copying. You don’t even really have to understand what you are reading.

if the question says ‘what was Humpty Dumpty doing?’ You just have to find the words Humpty Dumpty and was and copy that and the rest of the sentence until there is a full-stop and most of the time you are in with a good chance of it being right!

What exactly is the unreasonable bit I'm confused

I would say year 1 in England so aged 5/6 years old. Not many reception children would know when to use ‘ee’ or ‘ea’ or know ‘air’ for hair. I think it wouldn’t be massively unusally some children in year 2 (age 6/7) to produce this.

I'd say it looks a lot like my 7 year olds work and he is probably below where he should be.

I'd say 7, First class.

One of my children could write like this at 4, another was writing like this at 7-8

4 or 5 years old?

Based on my daughter I’d say Senior Infants (also Irish here)

I was thinking more 5 or 6 because at 6 they start learning joined up writing at my kids’ school. So variables like that are going to skew MNers answers. Size of letters and backwards letters etc tells me under age 6, or whatever age the second year of school is in Ireland.

Given the lines on the copy, I'd say senior infants.