I'm going to copy everyone else and ask what level you think this writing is

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Ill write it out just as ds has,here we go

Once up on a time there was a night. He has a sord in his hans. He is loanly because he nes sums help him to fight dragons. He had a hors and it is blak and wite.

He is 7 (yr2) and is on an iep for sentences and phase 5 sounds,
Can I have your thoughts please

My son is in y2 and considered national average in terms of literacy.

Your son's spelling, punctuation and use if capital letters is similar to mine. My son uses commas for lists and speech marks too.
Did he write it at home or school? My son rarely writes at home but his school books have lots of written pieces where he's written a page of A4 but it's taken more than one literacy lesson to write it. His writing at school has lots of interesting adjectives and adverbs too. (Can you tell I think his teacher is amazing?)

I would say 1b+.Appropriate use of punctuation, simple sentence structure, uses because. Some fairly complex words spelt correctly, but needs to be encouraged to hear end sounds. Not really a story but more than a caption and is readable. So, clearly needs a bit of support in literacy, but not desperately behind. Maybe work on stamina and encourage dictated stories and short diary entries / writing related to his interests.

He wrote it at home this evening,he says he's going to make a costume tomorrow and read it out at show and tell on Monday. I'm very happy hes even trying let alone without any pushing from me or his teacher.
His teacher has asked for me to show her anything he has written at home and she will praise him and put it on the wall.
He doesn't use commas but knows where they should be used,speech marks no,
He's making progress so I'm happy and he's proud

Can I ask what you mean by dictated stories please djwkin

You write stories he makes up, giving him the opportunity to use more complex sentences and exciting vocabulary without having to struggle with the mechanics of writing at the same time. It sounds like he's doing really well by the way. Doing that writing with no support is good. - in infants (and juniors) a lot of writing is scaffolded and supported by the teacher. Be proud of him.

I love the idea of the costume as well - that could be really fun.

Oh that sounds good,might give him some more confidence,at the moment if I try to correct a spelling or punctuation he just totally melts down and gives up. I think his speech has been reflected in his writing because he is only just grasping talking in sentences,he's been seeing a speech therapist since he was 3 and she has just taken him off her list,sometimes the sentences are all jumbled up when he says them.
Thank you for seeing the good bits,its really nice to hear

It's fantastic that he is writing at home. Yes, encourage his ideas as much as possible. I wouldn't correct his spellings personally, as long as he is using his phonics strategies it should not matter. Same with punctuation - I would remind him about it before he started and ask him "what do you have at the end of a sentence?" maybe just the once. The main thing is, he has ideas and he wants to get them down. That's half the battle won.

Would agree with Djwkin in that the writing is about a 1b. However at this stage in year 2, most teachers would want children to be at least a 2c. This is so that they are in line to achieve a 2b by the end of the year and a 4b by year 6. So I would say he is working 2 sub levels behind. On average children are expected to make 2 sub levels in one academic year. So he would have to make accelerated progress to catch up. Don't want to alarm you but Just wanted to give you facts on average so that you can decide how far behind his peers he is.

we knew he was behind thats why hes been on an iep,his teacher at parents evening said hes finally grasping sentences,now hes actually willing to write i hope he will catch up a little.