Could someone please level this writing please? Thanks

[Summersunandflowers]

Lily the lazy lion chatted to Chippy the cheeky cheetah. The useful united unicorns were using their horns to fight the furious foot soldiers. They wanted to pick the perfect powers of the unicorns horns to be royal rulers of the red fountain land. Chippy the cheeky cheetah and Lily the lazy lion saw that the useful, united unicorns were in trouble! So they pounded perfectly over to help and pounced onto furious foot soldiers. The unicorns gave them some powers as a gift.

Good use of a dictionary though, if that's the case.

She doesn't have a dictionary and I'm not sure she'd know how to use one anyway. Unless she's been taught at school?
Thanks for all the feedback. Off to bed now.

PS I was pottering around doing jobs (mumsnetting) whilst she wrote it

A 6 year old would be unlikely to know
furious
cheetah
their/there
royal
fountain
useful
trouble
powers
pounced

doubling rule- chatted, chippy

There is a difference between being able to read and retrieve spellings from long term memory and spell correctly.

I think it's been copied from a book or something.
It doesn't sit right for me and I've worked with gifted children.

I think they could get fountain and powers as they can be sounded out phonetically quite easily.

They might have been taught the difference between there and their.

But the rest, I agree, would be unusual for a six year old.

And Constant, if this is real, how gifted is this child?

Extremely so I would say?

You say it doesn't sit well but I am sure is it possible ....non?

Actually, probably just powers because fountain would be founten if she was just sounding it out.

Theconstantlygardening - all 6 year olds aren't the same though.

My 3 year old knows more than half of those words.

Very sweet story and wow, you should be so proud OP!

Been teaching for almost 40 years including gifted children (mensa kids)- don't need telling children are all different

So how can you tell the OP that she's either lying or that her 6 year old didn't write it?

I think my nephew who has just turned 7 could easily have written that.

Too late to argue with you georgie!
If it's genuine then I suggest the mum takes her DD off to an ed psych to be assessed.

I'm not trying to piss you off, I'm genuinely baffled that with your experience you would say a 6 year old couldn't do this.

I felt a bit sorry for the OP who was clearly just proud of her DD.

Um, are you serious about this being a piece of work that a really highly gifted child would produce? It's a very sweet little bit of playing with language and the spelling is excellent. It's good for a six year old. But it's not marvellously amazing. Alternatively, my kid who I keep describing as bright but not a genius actually is a genius! She's not, btw.

My niece would have known all those words at that age. And would use them in conversation and her writing. She probably wouldn't have spelt them all correctly but she could certainly have written that. I wouldn't say she was 'gifted' either. An advanced vocabulary maybe but not necessarily gifted.

Her older sister would have been able to spell them correctly had they been in her vocab and she'd read them somewhere. Although I would say she does tend towards the 'gifted' if you want to label it that.

I'm a Primary Literacy specialist. I've seen similar efforts from 6 year olds. IMO, many primary children are underestimated because of their young age and this always worries me. Some children just have an intrinsic understanding of language patterns, and for a child who's been reading since 3 years old and enjoys it, I'm not surprised she's absorbed a rich vocabulary, especially if there is a rich and varied vocabulary spoken at home. The spelling is phenomenal though!
The OP is clearly a very proud mum here, and I find it inappropriate to imply that she's lying.
OP, this is a great little piece of writing :) my MIL has a poem my DH wrote at age 6 framed in her kitchen, it's so cute and makes me smile every time I see it :) I think this piece might be frame worthy too!

I don't think it's that exceptional for a 6yo. I certainly see no reason to suggest that the OP is lying, and although the child is clearly bright, she wouldn't need to be a genius to come up with something like this.

My dd would certainly have known all of the words used at 6, with the probable exception of foot soldiers, and her spelling was generally very accurate by that age. Her punctuation was less reliable, and I doubt she'd have used the comma, but she was very secure with full stops, capital letters and exclamation marks at that age. Now, at 8, her writing is much, much more sophisticated, so when I read the OP, I assumed that the child was probably around 6ish.

Some kids just have a natural flair for writing. They may read a lot, and enjoy playing with words. I think it's a bit to suggest that the OP is lying. I can easily believe that a bright 6yo wrote this.

It's a lovely piece of work, OP, but I wouldn't worry about the levels at this stage - just nurture your child's love of words! :)

I confess when I first read it that I thought the OP was "sending up" posts asking for levels

The spelling ability and the writing do not match IMO. I am not suggesting that the OPs DD did not write it but the spelling is amazing but the writing isn't so is a bit of a red herring to level IYSWIM.

For a 6 year old it is lovely and definitely gifted with regards to the spelling and vocabulary. Ds1 probably wouldn't have been able to spell all those words and probably wouldn't have known several of them but his writing was more fluid with proper use of connectives and descriptions (rather than adding them in everywhere - although this is very common when children first learn about this).

Regardless of the level your DD is clearly doing extremely well with her spelling and writing and some people have been a bit rude to you. My DS2 is now the same age and would not be able to write or spell like that and is considered above average in literacy.

You've got a talented 6 year old there. Encourage her to keep it up as with this level of writing at such a young age, she could become a talented author if she wanted to.

Lovely piece of writing, I always enjoy reading these stories like many other fellow mumsnetters.

Just to put the record straight- I never used the word 'genius'. There is a difference between a genius and a child who is gifted in some area(s).

I agree with some other posters that the understanding- or apparent understanding- of the vocab is at odds with the age of a child of 6, unless they have been reading or listening to these words at school/home.

I'd expect a parent to say something more along the lines of 'my child seems very advanced for their age, is way ahead of their peers, what do you think, based on this writing'.. because children who can write like this at 6 would show their ability in other ways too.

The sentence that stands out for me is 'They wanted to pick.....land'.

And 'foot soldiers'.

How would a 6 year old have that phrase in their vocab?

Not accusing anyone of lying but would like to know more!

I agree that 'foot soldiers' is not a phrase in most children's vocabulary. The vocabulary and spelling is surprisingly good for a six year old, but the sentence structure is very basic. She obviously enjoys alliteration though and her enthusiasm should be encouraged.

If you want to move her on, maybe encourage her to use her own choice of words and introduce connectives.

My daughter would have known foot soldiers from The Nutcracker at that age. She had a book of the ballet which she was obsessed with and read over and over again.

I agree that knowing foot soldiers isnt amazing, going to any tower or castle ( tower of london) you will hear foot soldiers being used and so on, and also agree with nutcracker....

There is a high chance that the child has heard this vocab at home!

I dont think the parent would come on saying this is advanced.

how would she know?

We are not all teachers, or exposed to the works of other children, I am totally in the dark about my DC progress, or stages...

I'm completely at the disbelief on here - all it takes is a child who is an able reader with wide interests. My DDs would both have known all those words at 6, used them in conversation and in writing - though not with the perfect spelling used in the OP. If you grow up in a household where books are a part of the culture, where conversation on all topics is encouraged and where there are lots of outings and experiences this is really no big deal. Foot soldiers especially is nothing special, used in lots of fantasy novels written for younger readers - think Angie Sage's Septimus Heap series just for starters.

It's a lovely piece of playing with words btw, but probably can't be levelled because it's only doing one thing.