DS4 (just turned 4 a couple of months ago) does enjoy writing when he is in the mood. He's been reading for a couple years now. I think he prefers typing on the computer to writing overall....but does like to write. He types emails and does great with punctuation and spelling...we be have to monitor him because he once sent an email to earthlink staff telling them "I love you very much" intending to send it to my email. He did make a book recently called "the things I like." He drew lots of pictures and wrote captions about everything. He does get lazy with writing though. Like on the first page he drew a picture of pizza and wrote TIP on top. When I asked him why it said TIP he said, "no...that stands for This Is Pizza." But when I explained that no one will know that when they read his book he started writing everything out. Most thing were about foods he likes, but there were some interesting things in there about egg hunts and eating candy on halloween, and apparently cucumbers...which I was not aware he liked all that much. He does like to write cards to people that are pretty cute and creative. He says some funny stuff. My DS also really enjoys shel silverstein and other poetry. I am looking forward to some creative writing in the years ahead.
