Guess the age of the child that wrote this

[Cortina]

My niece wrote this at school. What would you gauge her 'writing age' to be from this ( admittedly isolated) example?:

With a good ten minutes to spare I settled myself down in a corner seat on a train to London, and for a time it looked as if my only companion was to be an old lady. Then, almost at the last moment, a man and a girl hurried up the platform. The man pushed the girl into the carriage and threw her case in just after her. "Only just in time!" He said angrily. "And now, don't lose this one!" Besides a flush and tightly pressed lips the girl took no notice, leaving the ticket where he flung it in her lap. The man said a cold goodbye and walked off. The girl didn't look at him as the train drew off from the station.

12?

anywhere from 9 - 14

about 9, i would say. it's pretty fluent for 9, but i doubt you'd be asking if she was 16.

11

About 12

A child who has read a large number of children's books from the 50s - 80s.

Age??? 8 and up?

About 9?

I'd say about 9 or 10, I could write like that at that age

knowing mumsnet, 3 and a half, yes she's gifted and talented

10

Why?

Don't you just love all the people who say 8 or 9? Absolutely agree with the 'knowing Mumsnet she's 3.5' comment. I read a lot of work at the school where I'm a governor (highly achieving blah-de-blah) and very few children are writing like that at 8 or 9.

COme on then OP. Has your point, whatever it is, been made yet?

I'd also say 9, not because a lot of 9 year-olds write like that, but because some can. And the OP obviously feels proud of a high-achieving niece.

But... a lot depends on the input. You could get work like this out of most of a class of 9/10 year-olds if you'd spent two weeks looking at similar texts, experimenting with sentence structure etc.

What suzikettles said.

I'm presuming her "writing age" isn't the same as her chronological age.

The writing age is probably 12, her actual age could be anything from 8 up. What I can tell you is this was definitely written by a girl.

6 months. G&T. i bet she is writing before she can speak. or something.

4 years old, SLD, non-verbal. English as a second language.

8/9 ish here too.

25?

Well in my (filthy) mind the next scene is very rude. It sounds a bit JCollins so I'm hoping 16+!

Clearly not though or you wouldn't put it up here.

That looks about Year 6/7

i think she is 34
what the FUCK am i doing on this dullo thread

Actually, her unborn foetus dictated it in the womb, tapping out morse code on her ribs.

well?

I would say a bright (eg good at English) person of about 13.

My DD is 9 and considered very good indeed at writing and there is NO way she could write anything as good as that.

at all those saying 8-9.