My third grade daughter wrote this story in her spare time across the last two days. She tells me it is not yet done and is very proud of it although she knows there are many mistakes in it. The school until recently has told me that she does not need SLP Eval. They also tell me that her problem is reading comprehension and have put her in small group reading with a tutor.
“One day a squaril [squirrel] was wondering for peanuts in a girl’s backyard. Then it bit all the wier [wire] to the back doors it lunged in the house and climed [climbed] on all of the cabince [cabinets]. After that the squaril was smelling for some food it bit the cabince [cabinets] and bit a jar. The jar had peanutbutter in side of it then stole the peanutbutter ate it and got the food on all of the paws. The squaril [squirrel] was walking away and tracking foot prints [footprints] with peanutbutter on the floor and didn’t know it, and lunged out of the house sunddly [suddenly] it climed [climbed] on a tree. The girl walked into her house put her things on the table in the same room that the squaril [squirrel] made footprints. She saw the footprints she followed them and saw the bitten screen. Then the girl saw footprint in the snow and she lost the footprints. So she whened [went] back in the house and at [ate] supper, then she cleaned the mess up. After that went to sleep. She woke up went down the hall opened and closed the door waked [walked] back up the hall and stayed there. Also she was peeking, the squaril [squirrel] came in the house, she made some noise be axadint [accident]. The squaril [squirrel] ran away for now. Then she went to work. The squaril [squirrel] came back made sure that no one was there then went to the peanutbutter, and this time the squaril [squirrel] cecked [checked] to see if any one was there. ”
Thank you for your help in advance.
No Testing Yet
No testing has been done yet, it will be starting in the next week or so. Will give you the test scores when I have them. Thank you for your help.
spelling squirrel
When my daughter, 5th grade with an IEP for Dyslexia and Dysgraphia, writes a story the same word appearing over and over like squirrel would have been spelled differently every time. I liked her story, she should be very proud of it. Good luck with the testing!
I think the story is pretty good and the spelling errors are not unusual either. She spelled accident very phonetically!
But, you are obviously concerned about her reading. On what basis do they say she has a problem with reading comprehension? Has she been tested? I’d like to see the test scores. There may be another problem causing the comprehension problems. And if those are not addressed, she will continue to have difficulty.
Janis