Awfully childish story writing by a Y2 - consistently poor

[BingBo]

DS1 loves reading. He does read a lot - fictions and non-fictions. We read chapter stories every night.

So when it comes to his story writing, I feel awfully helpless. The content of the story is extremely simple and back-and-forth just similar ideas/languages. With all the tips given to him again and again in school and by myself, he just can't come up with anything beyond what a 5 years old would possibly say.

I don't know if it's an issue of lack of imagination. I don't know if it's to do with his undiagnosed ADHD (bad short-term memory and difficulty to focus on top of moderate speech delay). Does anyone has a little one in similar situation and somehow this was resolved on its own with one of those "magical intelligence leaps"?

Example of his writing: "There’s a dinosaur called Eddie. It is gigantic and nice to animals. It seems to be superb kind. I think I’ll call it Eddie. The dinosaur says good bye. My friends will be happy. Dinosaur are extinct and strong."

What an absolute shocker that a 7 year old writes a childish story

He needs to learn the structure of a story. So give him instructions to write an opening. Where is the story taking place, describe it. What sort of words can you think of to describe x? Maybe introduce main character.

Next help him write the body of the story, ask him what’s going to happen. Usually there is a problem ie mean characters not being nice, or dino can’t find something etc,

Then there needs to be problem solving or a dilemma happening.

Then problem or dilemma is solved. Etc.

What an excellent thread! I need to come back to this and jot down some ideas properly.

Lol he's 7 years old which is the same age as my little brother who is busy doing outdoor things and riding his bike! Let the poor kid learn some life skills and leave the academic ability until further into primary school or secondary school. This is where mental health problems develop for kids when they are doing their GCSEs from judgemental and pushy parents.