What age for these spellings

[mummyof2boys30]

My son has diagnosis of dyslexia and has just received a statement of educational need. His school aren't very understanding and have had lots of issues so i tend not to ask their advise.

What age would you expect a child to be doing spellings like
Black
Pack
Smack
Pick
Lick
Sick
Sixty

Not in my experience - my ds’s school used exclusively iPads for Y7 and Y8. Bloody ludicrous.

11 year old P7 (last year of primary). Dyslexic but not severe.
Back
Trap
Stamp
Path
Chat
Park
Gang

But working on “growing” words with this list.

[quote Littlebluebird123]@mummyof2boys30

I know it's hard but it's not a great idea to 'see how far behind he is'. It doesn't really work like that with people with dyslexia. It's a specific learning difficulty - he may well be the same or even above others with his understanding but is struggling with the physical aspect of recording it. This does need to be worked on and targeted spelling and individual interventions at school can help with this. It's also more useful to give support in a practical way so that his learning is shared in a way he can express himself accurately. This would usually mean something like an adult writing for him, written prompts for support and the most common and useful (in my opinion) is a laptop or tablet. Depending on severity of writing issues this could be speech to text dictation or the use of word (etc) to help correct the spellings so it can be read.
I would look at what support he is receiving and see what is being put into place for future proofing his learning. It's not long until he'll be at secondary school where the expectations of writing will be much greater.[/quote]
Thank you for your reply. I know i shouldn't compare and normally we don't but it's so hard not to at times. We have got a statement with 1to1, at proposed stage and i actually have asked for OT assessment in order to access assistive technology and also to use an ipad. I think this would make a massive positive impact to his learning. Though I'd imagine it will be September now at earliest before anything is in place