I have a DD in year 6. She is being investigated for dyslexia, so I hope it's ok to post here?
I went to her class end of half-term open afternoon, and got to see her books for the first time this year. DD has struggled with writing, and gets some support for this in class. She is about average academically, but her writing is noticeably scruffier, bigger, and much worse spelling- and punctuation-wise than most of her class.
In her literacy book, it was obvious that they are doing peer marking. On two pieces of work, her peers had written 'Bad spelling', and 'Lots of spelling mistakes' then written over DD's incorrect spellings in pen with the right spellings - about two/three per sentence, so whole pages were full of corrections.
I asked DD how she felt about that, and she said shrugged and said she didn't mind, but if it were me, i know I would feel bad about it.
Am I being too precious? Should a child who obviously has difficulties spelling have her worked marked by her friends like this? If she does in fact have dyslexia, will this mean they stop doign this and get her book only marked by a teacher/TA who can be a bit more sensitive?