Spelling concerns for Y3 7.5 yo dd

[follygirl]

My dd has a good reading age (Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton) but seems to make quite a few spelling mistakes when writing.

She is fine learning her weekly spellings and always gets them right but when in a rush she makes really quite basic mistakes: crabes, center, rasberrys, lurn (learn) etc. I would say that she writes in what she thinks is a phonetical way.

I have asked her if she checks her work and sees that it doesn't look right, but she says that it looks fine to her. Is this something which happens when they are older?

She also struggles with writing words which sound the same but which are spelt differently: pear/pair, their/there, right/write etc.

Is this all completely normal considering her age? Am I expecting too much?

Her school have been helping her with extra spelling work and she was assessed by their dyslexia teacher who thinks that it is perhaps immaturity rather than dyslexia. I know that she is young to be diagnosed with that but I'm overly sensitive as my father and brother are dyslexic and I know it is hereditary.

I have been writing spelling lists, looking at words she has spelt incorrectly and making her learn them, what else should I do? Or should I leave her alone?

If you want to, you can do a structured spelling program with her at home.

Obviously they're not a 'quick fix' - they have to be done over a long period of time.

I like Apples & pears best.

Word Wasp is also quite good.

Alternatively you could get her checked by a behaviour optometrist to double check her vision is fine. (Their eye test is nothing like an opticians eye test)

Based on what you have posted I would advise you to stop worrying point out the difference between there and their and they're but she sounds just like hundreds of other 7 year olds.

Yep, she sounds much like my 7 yr old dd in Y3 - excellent reading, so-so spelling

Actually, dh's brother and neice are dyslexic - though mild to moderately so. I sometimes wonder if dd is, slightly, but she spells much like her friends so I agree maybe too early to tell.

I agree with Mrz - sounds perfectly normal to me.

Ditto here, 7.4yo DS.
I just try to work on punctuation with him, full stops & capitals and (roughly) intelligible sentences.

Thanks, I think I am worrying a bit.
I looked at the Apples and Pears indigobell and reckon she is on level C already so I'm assuming that's fine.

She's so good and effortless at everything it just makes the spelling mistakes more obvious.

Level C is dry good for a 7 year old.

I guess she is okay then. :)

As I said she just makes silly mistakes when she's in a rush.

She is the same age as my DS and she spells much much better than he does!
Sounds normal to me x