If you’re a teacher - how old do you think the writer of these sentences is?

[Pompleandprim]

This isnt meant to be any form of humble brag, my reason for posting is that my child attends a SEN school so I don’t know if the teachers expectations are different because of this.

Without any emphasis on handwriting or spelling, if a child was coming up with these sentences in their creative writing, how old would you assume they are?

”His eyes were as black as the night’s sky”

”His hat was as blue as the ocean as it reaches off to the shore”

“Nose the shape of a plumbers plunger”

Yes, the teacher scribes for him at times when physically putting pen to paper is difficult for him.

Getting him to write is the next step, getting him to spell correctly will come later and is far less important in a world of spell check and autocorrect. His self esteem is blocking him from writing at all - so the teacher is modelling to him that it’s ok to get things wrong. It’s why he needs an independent special school rather than a mainstream approach - a mainstream approach won’t work for him.