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I have twins in first grade at a very good public school, and your DS's writing sample looks better than most of the first grade writing that I see in the halls. He is using punctuation and writing sentences. They don't focus on spelling at our school in first grade very much, because they want the children to write without feeling self conscious. They just started focusing in October on how to write sentences using correct punctuation and capitalizing.

The writing sample you posted would be considered very good in first grade at this point in the year.