DD has really struggled with writing compared to her class mates (their work is up on the walls all around the class room, so it's easy to see the difference). I've only encouraged her to keep writing her spellings, which she gets each week, as more than this caused stress and prior to this she's never written more than 3 sentences or so.
Then the other day, she told us a story in the car and I asked if she'd like to write it up and she was really up for it and has been very relaxed about the whole process. This is by far the longest piece of writing she's ever done and I wonder if anyone's happy to level it. I know this one piece doesn't represent her over all level, but it would be great to have a rough idea on the piece itself.
All spellings, capitalisation, punctuation, etc. as she's done them, with correct spellings in [] if I think it might be tricky to decipher. The only help I gave was at the point I've put a * - she was going to finish with 'they lived happily ever after' and I suggested that she checked her story to make sure all the problems were resolved - she did and realised the pirates were still lost and then completed the story as you see below.
Ounse opon a time there was ... a pirout [pirate] with her shipmates. One day they saled out to sea the blue wavey sea. One day there was a thunder storm and they got lost. Sudnly a monster came out from the blue sea. It was called the Monster Mersivle. He had terrible claws and terrible teeth. He has slimy tenticls and a slimy head. He came closer and closer waving his tenticls. Suddenly The captan had an ider. [idea] She got out the ancer [anchor] she throo the ancer into the air and it hit the monster and it fel over.* Then there frend the pirot fish apeard. "Helo" said the pirot fish "do you need eny help?" "Yes please!" So the pirot fish led them home. THE END