Just curious - when did your child start writing (and more than scribbles - like you can see the purposeful letters)?
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Developmentally it's a big range for typically, between 3-5 years. Kids usually go from scribbles, to learning/using random letters, to starting to spell "words" (like dg for dog).
My son is about to turn 3 and he's still very much scribbling, but I teach early childhood and that's the general age frame. I see most kids move into letters around 4-4.5 years. -
I'd say about around 2.5 for purposeful letters and at about 5 she was writing words (sight words she knows as well as invented spelling). Now at 6 she's a writing machine and we do a little everyday. She likes to make signs, write journal entries & letters, picture captions, pretend menus & recipes. I love this part of development!
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DD is in a "school" (not just general daycare) and they taught her to write her own name at 3 yrs old
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It just depends. Our preschool starts working on letter formation and handwriting with the 3's. At the school I work at, we start in pre-k, but most kids (at least 80%) come to us not knowing how to write their name, so we start handwriting with them at 4 and continue on until they can write. Handwriting is a short block in classrooms until grade 3 for about 15 minutes a day or so.
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Writing (the act of making legible letters) is a purely mechanical skill and it is one that is very simple to teach, so they'll learn when they are taught the mechanics. But it seems to me that the truly important writing (expression of ideas in print) skill is mastery of the language being written, so I didn't think it was necessary to spend a lot of time showing my 3yo the mechanics of writing his name. Instead we spent a lot of time reading and talking and generally hearing/seeing/using language. We homeschool K now, and handwriting is the easiest thing we do by far.
I would recommend waiting until the child is older and showing interest, using the time when they are really little to immerse them in language and let them do things that they want to do that develop fine motor skills, like play with Legos and little toys.
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My son is 3.5 and can form about 2-3 letters. We don't work on it as often as we could, though.
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LO started writing his name at 3. At 4 his letter formation is better, and we're working on his uppercase letters.
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My DD1 was 2, but that's not normal.
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DS could write his name at 3
DD is 4.5 and still cant write her name
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Ds just turned 3 and is nowhere close to writing his name. He just scribbles to be fair, we dont really practice bc.he doesnt show an interest yet. I think by 4 he will be there.
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