My 4-1/2 loves to practice "writing." This is mostly just family names. I encourage her to learn her letters and numbers, but we don't make her work. YKWIM. She does something kind of strange when she writes things sometimes and dyslexia runs on my husbands side of the family, so I wonder if anyone else has seen their kids do this.
She will write a name in a complete mirror image. It's not only backwards, from right to left, but each letter is a mirror image too. When she does this she also draws each letter with a reversed method.
Or, she will start out going left to right, then half way through the word, she will begin to put the letters on the left side and work in the opposite direction. Like Katie becomes - EITKA.
Often, everything is in the right order too.
She doesn't think there's any difference in any of these methods. Like since she's got the right letters all mushed up together then it's right. She's only 4-1/2... I don't really know what to expect from her since she is my first child... but is this strange or normal? Has anyone seen this mirror image writing with a child? Is any of this related to dyslexia in a child so young?
Thanks for any input!
She will write a name in a complete mirror image. It's not only backwards, from right to left, but each letter is a mirror image too. When she does this she also draws each letter with a reversed method.
Or, she will start out going left to right, then half way through the word, she will begin to put the letters on the left side and work in the opposite direction. Like Katie becomes - EITKA.
Often, everything is in the right order too.
She doesn't think there's any difference in any of these methods. Like since she's got the right letters all mushed up together then it's right. She's only 4-1/2... I don't really know what to expect from her since she is my first child... but is this strange or normal? Has anyone seen this mirror image writing with a child? Is any of this related to dyslexia in a child so young?
Thanks for any input!
