Sorry this is long...please bear with me.
DD aged 8 has always struggled with academics, was slow learning to read and write and didn't really grasp it until she was about 6. When she started in reception she would memorise the book rather than read it.
Can read very well now although she has a habit of adding words that are not there, missing words that are and replacing words for something similar. If she takes time to look at the words she is usually fine.
However the big problem is handwriting. I had concerns for her last year (yr2) but dismissed it as alot of the children in the class were having same problems and put it down to poor teaching.
But having gone through her literacy books for this past year (yr3) There doesn't seem to be much improvement, Her handwriting is very scruffy with attrocious spelling.
She seems to know how to spell the words verbally but trying to write them down is another kettle of fish. For instance she wrote a story which contained the word chickens.
It was written as, chickns, chickings,and chioinns
Some other examples;
Indentify / idteniky,
Fire / fier, fere, kier
Favourite / frqvrite, favrout, favriete
Village/ vilese
Naughty/ natheney
There are words that she seems to know what letters they need to have but cant get the right order. Like Blue / bleu and Bear/ baer
Even simple word like, "and" can come out as "ane", the as t or th
And of course there are words that dont make sense, so not sure what she was trying to spell. IE, cartoins, immayeneerly, fechits...i couldn't work out the context.
She has some random sentances that dont make sense ie,
I to na mut iv / reape aftar me hock strock hoch. ????
Then she has a written paragraph which is mostly spelled correctly but the words dont make sense.
Grandma said wheres my medicine coming goumpy old grandma her but grandma gots make and smaller until she disaperd
she has a big problem with putting random capital letter into words and seems to struggle with T/F/L/K, often merging two together. Some letters are upside down (although not often) and its only Z she gets back to front.
Theres not one page that doesn't have a ton of mistakes on it, but the only thing her teacher has commented on is the random capital letters.
They dont do spelling lists at school and teachers dont seem to correct mistakes. So how is she going to know that it isn't correct?
She hates written work with a passion and homework always turns into a huge battle if she has to write long paragraphs, on a computer she is fine. In fact she hates reading at home as well especially if there are too many pages.
I did suspect she may have ADHD/dyspraxia when she was younger (before school age) as she had/ has possible signs over the years, again i thought i was barking up the wrong tree as it was only some on the checklist not all.
Can anyone shed some light as all i know is what i have read on the net.
Does this sound familiar.??