This is part sharing, part "how does this compare with your experience" and a good part of "I'm not ready to go back to work after lunch just yet..."
So DS5.5 (probably closer to 5 3/4ths not that it matters that much) has really started to be interested in writing. In fact yesterday he started writing "poems". Now at 5 the poems are simple, but they do have the basic structure of a poem. We read lots of Shel Silverstein at bedtime, so that's probably why he's got the structure down... well as far as Silverstein's poem have structure.
At any rate, he's a voracious reader reads simple chapter books and would probably be considered to be at a solid third grader reading level. Not sure about his writing/spelling though. I guess I always assumed that reader, writing, and spelling developed in lock-step.... but that's not the case is it?
It's great to seem him write like that. He only hold up is that he doesn't like "Kid Writing" so he insists on spelling each word correctly. That can slow down his writing.
When did your kids start to do creative writing (or otherwise) in relation to reading?
JB
