What age or stage is this writing?

[Madnessmum]

My oldest son came to me earlier asking how to spell 'snorkeling', I told him he should check the dictionary (he can be lazy). My youngest straight away says "I'll help you big bro" and wrote it down, no help at all. I know he is quite advanced but would be nice to know how much by.
Thank you

IncrediblySadToo - No, try reading the thread again, most guessed older

Perhaps try looking up the definition of "pretty close" before commenting?

For what it's worth, I'm a teacher and parent of young children, and I've not seen many 4 year olds be able to copy write that, let alone spell it as well.

Loads of schools use that style of writing. @PurpleDaisies the style we use at school is pre cursive and is pretty similar to that except for the k. (The pre cursive element being the little flicks at the end of the n for example). I've personally NEVER seen a school teach cursive straight away.

It's phonetic and phase 3- it could be anything from Reception up.

Hes in reception 

Ah he's a bright little button then

I'd have said Year 1 as similar to my 5 year old especially in terms of letter formation. Great for Reception.

I work in a mixed yr 1&2 class. I would say the spelling would be a brighter child, handwriting late year 1/early yr2.

Purpledaisies 'clever' was based on letter formation.

There is no way my child could have done this at the end of the first term of reception and she's always been good at reading/writing/spelling so I think he's doing great being able to write and work it out like that so young!

I think that's quite advanced for end of first term reception. My winter born child is reception and wouldn't be able to do that and he is one of the more advanced in his class. The writing is quite good for a reception child too. My very advanced daughter (now secondary) would have been able to do that at the end of reception with similar writing. She was summer born though.

My 5 year old writes similar.

5?

I’m a reception teacher and I’d say a 4 year old.

Age 5/year 1.

Possibly a 4 year old who gets phonics (just as letters are not cursive)

...and now I RTFT. Oops.

Thank you all for your replies.
Those that work in reception can I ask if you differentiate any work for your more capable children? DS's school have said they thought about putting him into year1 for some work but are concerned he may miss something..... When he can spell and write words like this, what can he miss?
He is capable of reading chapter books but they are sending home the first high frequency words. Words that not only can he read but write and spell correctly too. I'm trying to understand the benefit of this for him?

He is capable of reading chapter books but they are sending home the first high frequency words. Words that not only can he read but write and spell correctly too. I'm trying to understand the benefit of this for him?

Our school are big on comprehension. Dd at that age could read most things we had around the house if decodable but would have zilch clue on meaning and being able to then discuss plot/meanings/etc.

Could it be that they don't move on to books which require a higher level of understanding until they have worked through the set texts?

Yes, ‘barking at print’ is a different thing to reading and understanding. He does sound very advanced for reception. There are children in Year1and 2 that are unable to form letters correctly , copy correct spellings correctly from a board. It’s hard work this year

My 12 year old wrote like this around age 10 but he had additional needs. This is like his 6/7 year old brother would have written and he's brighter than the average.

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His reading is amazing, he uses correct expressions, corrects himself and uses the full stops and commas. He will ask about words he doesn't know the meaning of. I think his understanding is good but could probably do with checking by a teacher to be sure. We have no problem with the books he brings home as he enjoys them and he chooses books from home in between. Its just the classwork we feel could be alot trickier for him.

I would let him enjoy reception year. It’s not just about work but social skills etc The teacher will expect more from your DS as she’ll know what he’s capable of and by the end of year will probably achieve ‘exceeding expectations’Plenty of time to work harder.

When he can spell and write words like this, what can he miss?

That word alone would not warrant even an 'expected' at reception level . They would normally be writing at least 2 linked sentences as a bare minimum by the end of reception . My higher attaining pupils would be writing a paragraph consisting of simple sentences with some use of full stops and capital letters, to get 'exceeding'. My exceptionally high attaining children were writing stories and using exclamation marks.
You're doing your child a disservice to think that being able to spell a multisyllabic word warrants skipping a year. There is so much more to the development of your child as a resilient , confident , motivated , self-aware learner. Please don't be one of those parents. Your dc is not as bright as you think they are, sorry!

A bit early in the year for reception unless exceeding expectations. I'd go for a well read Year 1. The letter formation is showing good signs but not quite at Year 2 level (going on my current class).

D'oh! And then the thread loads