DS gifted/accelerated school really pushes writing and writing development, which has been physically tough for DS with his fine motor stuff. In his K class which was doing K-1st work, they taught the inventive spelling to not distract them from getting thoughts on paper. In 1st where they are doing 2nd and 3rd, now it's spelling and spelling correctly. So the spelling issues are tolerated to get them writing but then they drop that approach pretty quickly. They are taught both non fiction and fiction writing and these kids are writing tons - even my kid.
Ultra - your DS writing almost sounds like it would have worked for their K poetry unit. But the issue or difference I think between K and 1st gifted or not, accelerated or not, is stamina. Most K kids can't sustain the writing or the thinking associated with it - that's what they built over time. DS school builds it quickly but it still has to be developed. Interestingly, advanced reading seems to complicate matters as the kids with the bigger vocabs try to use them and get stuck on spelling. Seems like the teachers are more understanding for misspelled big words at this point but expecting perfectly spelled from their word lists.
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