ps - one other thing I meant to add - it was literally years before our ds was writing independently (fully) and I often wondered if he'd *get* those things such as grammar (ever) in his writing, but we simply didn't have time to worry about that above just working on written expression at home, and I knew he was getting good grades in grammar assignments at school. When he *did* start writing independently, the grammar piece was intact - it worked. Spelling, nope. He still can't spell worth a darn when writing, and he still mixes up words like there/their/they're etc. So he isn't ever going to get by without a combo of spelling auto-corrects or word prediction + a good proof-reader
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