Is anyone willing to share their 7 yr olds writing? My DS got a 2b in sats this summer which I'm beginning to think was a bit generous. He's worked hard on letter formation and his writing is more even and neat than it used to be, though not joined up. He's been doing some free writing this summer which is great and I want to encourage. But he's just written a star wars 'book' and the spelling is so bad that I wondered whether this was usual at this age. He's an avid reader (a high 3 in that apparently). I haven't corrected spelling as want to praise him for doing writing in first place. He tends to remember full stops but forget capitals!
So here's a sample... 'the badys wantid a new sith lord but they counden find one. then Dath Sideus had a idere. he hid behind a carntn (curtain) in a dulling (duelling) room. Anking does dule (duel) well he thout. he coud be a sith lord. the next day Darth Sidyus cout Anking and dragt him away.'
ETC!
At school he did very well in spelling tests but he's forgotten words like could etc he got right at school. Also interested to see different spellings of same word in same paragraph. Be interested to see what other parents of 7yr olds/teachers thought of this - if its perfectly normal I'll relax!
thanks