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could someone advise level of this piece of writing pls?

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firstchoice · 23/02/2014 20:53

Hello

My child has recently written this:

'On staturdy I went to my swiming lesons it was borng. wen I got back from the lesans I plad minecraft. I bilt a rode mad out of blak and wite wool. You can get wite wool by kiling a sheep, shering a sheep and by crafthing it from 9 bits of sthing. you can get blak wool by: crafting it from bone meel you can croft bone meel from one bone. you can get bones from a scelingtan.) and cactos grn.'

can you please tell me how that would 'grade' in the English school system? (English is childs first language but not currently schooled in England but within UK)

another example is:

'well mysereas boy (stil unknon) robd bob 2 times 1st he rodb a £10000000 the 2nd time he rodb a hen that lay goldom egs. the 3rd time he did nto scsed in steling the hare because the hare shawtid marster marster sumwon is tring to sterling me! why that it we think bob said that th'

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firstchoice · 28/02/2014 16:51

THANKS, JAFFACAKESALLROUND

at the moment, he is spending spelling test time 'helping in the office'.
Okay as a 1 off, but not every week for a nearly 10 year old.
he gets teased about it.
they said 'maybe he could write the words up for the teacher / mark other childrens results'
when he cant spell himself Hmm

I had wondered about the level of the words / how they were 'grouped' but not being a teacher, assumed there was some pattern not obv to me.

another group he has had have been:

article (articl) queue (qyoo) aqua (aqar)
bicycle (bisesicl) queen (queen) disqualify (disquolnfy)
cubicle (qubicl) banquet (abnqt) earthquake (erthauake)
cuticle (qetekl) barbeque (barbiqu) quantitiy (qunty)
muscle (mscl) frequent (freeants) equalise (eqilze)
obstacle (obstcl) equip (quipe) quarter (qurter)
recycle (resicell) cheque (chec) quarry (qury)
uncle (uncil) equine (kwin) quarrel (quorl)
vehicle (vicl) last 2 unknown last 2 unknown
particle (particl)

I wont KEEP putting lists up but I thought these might be useful.
He also just doesn't get all ten written down in the 'pretest' and they mark each others work so he often has incorrect spellings marked correctly during the week that he is 'learning' and I have to correct them Thurs night when they come home for learning before Friday's 'big test' Sad

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firstchoice · 28/02/2014 17:01

sorry, those spellings have come out as a bit of an illegible block instead of the nicely tabulated list I had intended .... Blush

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mrsbaffled · 28/02/2014 17:51

My son is 9.8. Reading age 14.4. Spelling age 7.6. Extremely bright. He is way behind in writing compared to all other areas of the curriculum. He was diagnosed with SpLD in spelling, writing and fine motor control in year 3, so about 7.5.

School told me to go to the GP as I was concerned about him being clumsy and the GP referred onto peadiatrician who involved the Specialist Teachers who dx SpLD (later he was dx with borderline Aspergers, but that's not relevant now). As a result school was told to implement lots of strategies, but all he gets now is 1-1 for 10 mins a day going over his mistakes with a TA. Nonetheless, he is much further on than he was 2 years ago.

mrz · 28/02/2014 18:05

We don't send home lists of words to learn for spelling tests but they are the type of words I use with my Y1 class
you obviously have a mixture of words with /kw/ spelt and /l/ spelt sounds (I wouldn't mix them)

firstchoice · 28/02/2014 18:45

sorry, what is SpLD?
thank you

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mrz · 28/02/2014 18:53

Specific Learning Difficulties

firstchoice · 28/02/2014 19:29

Thank you.
Unheard of up here (Scotland)
we have a support for learning teacher but she is properly hopeless and there is no framework for SEN at all...

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mrz · 28/02/2014 19:36

SpLD is often used interchangeably with Dyslexia

www.thedyslexia-spldtrust.org.uk/

firstchoice · 28/02/2014 19:58

ah, thank you, mrz (feels properly dim)

we have asked ed psy re dyslexia but in our area they wont test for dyslexia or 'traits' until High School (age 12).

Dad and granddad are dyslexic (not that means it is inevitable, I know).

He cant manage timestables either

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mrz · 28/02/2014 20:25

As a SENCO I don't think a label of dyslexia is particularly helpful in solving the problem. With or without a diagnosis the child needs effective teaching.

firstchoice · 28/02/2014 21:08

Yes, I agree. A label is meaningless, really.
Unfortunately where I live there is no effective addressing of the problem as there is no admission it exists, sadly.

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