My DD6 is the same and my DS9 was similar too. With my 9 year old, he leaped years in reading. And a little while later, he leaped years in spelling. He actually tested higher in spelling than reading this year as a 3rd grader on an open ended K-12 test! Which was actually a huge surprise considering where we were 2 years ago.
So it may be a visual-spatial thing. Or you may just see another leap later. My 6 year old sat down and stapled a pile of papers together last week and just wrote a simple book, writing and spelling all sorts of things I didn't know she could spell on her own. So maybe we're seeing something coming that way with spelling!
My kids don't like to guess either and have perfectionist tendencies and resistance to try new things. So I think a lot of times they know things they won't choose to show until much later.
Last edited by kimck; 06/20/10 06:51 AM.
