Dyslexia????

[Carla]

If your child writes "eloMoT" on paper, having already correctly written "To Mole", what would you think?

that they were writing it backwards for fun

Zippi, she wasn't, she was making a special card for me. b's and d's seem to confuse her.

How old ? b and d are often reversed up until around 5/6, likewise p and q

How old? I think they all do that to start with. My ds freaked me out when at my MILs he got the fridge magnet letters and wrote his name perfectly forwards, then took them off and did it backwards. I guess to start with it's not hard wired that you read left to right.

LIZS, 6 next month.

Somebody here - blueteddy? a primary teacher - reassured me when ds did exactly the same. She said it's very common to see children write something as well known to them as their own name perfectly - but completely reversed.

He hasn't done it again since.

Do you have other concerns, apart from bs and ds (which it's completely normal to reverse)?

If it is a regular thing, and especially if dd can't see that it isn't "right", have a word with her teacher. However I think often dyslexia , for example, isn't diagnosed until a year to two later on because this is still so common at that age.

binkie, she's on Fuzzbuzz, rather than the ORT.

She's too young to worry about IMO.
Ds can read extremely well for his age (4 last week) but when writing will put the letters all over the place.

This is very common. I have known children who are very good writers suddenly write whole sentences backwards. Sometime they just forget where to start on the page and once started continue 'sounding out'.

As long as your child is writing (and reading) phonetically rather than trying to remember whole words, then she will be fine. Do you know how she is taught? Do they use synthetic phonics in her schoool?