He has never written anything of that length before. I have never really encouraged him to write, though he writes his name and practices letters at preschool. One thing in his favor is that he's a dream to teach--easy to lead. I just haven't wanted to turn him off writing and he hasn't seemed inclined--but I could probably "hothouse" him along quite easily over the summer to get him used to the idea of writing a few sentences in response to a prompt, etc. He had no trouble composing--just sort of, oh, I could write a story, eh? I suppose I could. La la. Here you go. (DD was different...she was clearly driven to write from very early.)