Opinions on 6 year old ds2's writing please

[Wallace]

He started to write me a story - not something he does often - but then went out to play. Usually he tells me what he has written which really helps.

"I wil bee the mrosd...
sunlee a csfir trnd bie
as bigas a jint"

Just realised the last bit is "as big as a giant"

We are starting to think he might be diagnosed dyslexic when he is older (dh is). His reading is not too bad - just moved on to Level 7 ORT. He will be 7 in July and at the end of Primary 2 which is the second year of school in Scotland.

Dd (also 6) has a friend who writes v similar to this and I was impressed as she writes and understands every sound as hears it. Her same friend always gets her spellings right for the weekly test so I'd confidently say she's not dyslexic but maybe someone with more experience might know.

Have you raised it with a teacher?

Ps I love his story!

My dd is in p2 and has similar spelling but not reading much yet- think there are huge variations at this age

That is comforting to know.

Teacher said too young to tell but might be a possibility. Apparently there is a test in P3 which will flag up if there is a problem. Just got his report which said he will need support in P3. And a very helpful sentence which said "However as he goes into P3 he will need" and then stops there

I've got DS1 in Scottish P2 (bit younger - Feb bday) - he writes in exactly the same way. It's a bit more normal looking if he's writing directly in response to a question (eg in the reading comprehension stuff they do). But free writing is extremely phonetic to the point of unreadable.

His topic is castles. Yesterday he wrote:

Qic qic lou the drobrige
Knise an dragins fool of brafre and curig

You can see that their spelling rules this week were 'kn' and 'soft g'.

His reading is fine (on level 9 storyworlds - seems to be average / slightly above within year group). School say the writing will come as he gets more reading experience, and just encourage him to enjoy it in the meantime. Didn't mention any dyslexia indication.

we have a very hard language for writing and spelling. If the teachers aren't hugely concerned then I wouldn't worry too much. Just perhaps practice sounding out all the sounds in the word. So for where he has written jint perhaps sound it out to be gi ant - so he would probably then spell it jiant but it makes it clearer to the reader and shows he is hearing all the sounds in the word. Is sunlee suddenly? again it is just careful pronunciation to get him to be able to think about which letters to use. he still won't get them right initially but if he can spell out the different sounds more clearly then it will be easier for him to then move forwards to spelling them correctly.

my daughter is showing many dyslexia traits and definitely has irlen syndrome so whilst I don't make her work at home we do talk about the sounds in words and when she wants to write something she knows now to sit and sound it out carefully and then try to work out how to show that sound. so yesterday she was writing sorry and spelt it sore but it was obvious she had tried to sound out s o r ee.

Thank you very much everyone. Greggs - I love the story and it is actually very easy to read.

peri - you are right, I will do some work with him on focussing on all the sound sin a word.