And how old is this writing please?

[MrPickles73]

And what needs to be worked on? Thankyou.

8-9? It's similar to my DD's handwriting and she's 8.

No way is that a child's, perhaps a teenager?

It's very neat cursive writing; ds2 had neat writing like that in yr 4/5. The story is not that complex linguistically so I would say yr 4, 8/9 yo.

I also cannot believe ppl arecreallybsaying 6yo! Or do they mean yr 6?.

Op I assume your child is younger than one might imagine, in which case, yay!

Yr 5/6

I assure you my ds wrote like that at age 6. He's an only child so I had nothing to compare to. An older primary child would have been taught to start sentences differently each time (among other things).

Och no, they're all being taught very fancy stuff nowadays.

I'd say 10.

Need to work on the figures though - that 2 is nowhere near as fluent.

@Breastfeedingworries

People think a 6 year older child would write that?

I was just thinking the same, as I looked at my own 6 year old's homework book and thought there must be some bloody clever 6 year olds out there!

Oh come on are people really saying 6?!?! Either every child I know is seriously lacking in the handwriting department or they're being spiteful.
I don't think it really necessarily goes on age (but still wouldn't say 6!!) some children get it some don't, my 10 year old daughter is way neater than my 13 year old son (he used to be so neat and when they introduced cursive at primary school it set him back badly)

Is this this silly precursive/nonsense again? It is beautiful handwriting, maybe 8/9 years old. But this is MN so six?

DD is in year one, could join diagraphs before she started reception and dare I say developing her own neat little style. She absolutely hates having to 'learn' to write like this. We had the three of us practising cursive the other weekend in solidarity with the poor child. She's getting quite good, but it's nowhere near as small and neat as this.

Teachers, is this something Gove introduced?

@myhumps123

6

6!! My six year old writes in massive letters! All swirly and lovely, but not very neat! Now I'm worried!

I would say it is a girl, and she is 10/11. However no paragraphs or punctuation might make it younger.

Teacher hat on. It could definitely have been produced by a y4-8 student who was below age related in writing, although we never judge based on a single piece. I would be surprised if the child is younger than y4, though I can't really explain why.

More important is the next steps!

First, I'm a bit confused as to the purpose of this writing. It's rare for children to write a whole piece on the future tense and this child has struggled as there are tense confusions in parts. They may need teaching about tense consistency, or they may need to be taught to proof read.

Paragraphing planners would help this child to make sure their writing flows better and has a clear purpose.

Some sentence structure places to improve: avoiding run on sentences, varying sentence starters. Depending on age, possibly introducing commas.

@SleepWellBeast

These threads are always the same.

OP boasting as this is their 4 yr old's writing. Then posters deliberately adding young guesses 🙄

For what it's worth - I'd say yr 4/5 based on writing. Didn't read as it wasn't particularly easy to read but I'm not a fan of this style of cursive

Yes that's true, I wondered why so many people wrote 6'! X

Lost relatives
Caretaker
Business Lunch
Arrested
Dance Studio
Very specific place and people names
Pulled it off
ASAP

Not the content/vocabulary of a 6 year olds writing.

The actual handwritting itself looks better than mine, and I'm nearly 30.

It looks very much like my Year 4 child's handwriting and style but she's more fond of adjectives and adverbs than this person.

No way would my 6 year old be able to write like that.

Year 5, instructional narrative but not quite getting the point of it.

I'd say year 5/6. So 9-11 years old.

That is better than my writing and I'm the wrong side of 30!

Thank god we all use computers and laptops now. No one ever writes anything down for another person to read anymore haha

If some people have 6 year olds that write like that then my 6 year old needs to seriously up his game!

Year 4. Handwriting is a little inconsistent. Spelling, paragraphs, higher level punctuation and varying sentence starters.

@MrPickles73
This looks like a 'no more marking' sample...

I'm settling on 10 year old boy.

(maybe 9)