Yes, my neurotypical daughter did this until about mid 2nd grade, so stop around the time she turned 8.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Common until second grade for lefties and boys.

So if my first grade right handed daughter does this are you saying I should be concerned?

Not necessarily. Right handers do it too sometimes.

Signs of dyslexia and dysgraphia extend more to things like inability to understand patterns (dyslexia: ex, did your kid take forever to learn the order of the days of the week) or poor spatial planning (dysgraphia).

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Common until second grade for lefties and boys.

Yup, my lefty 2nd grader is finally not doing it regularly - but still occasionally. Her lefty older sister did it in K and first. Their righty older sister never did (but is/was also a perfectionist).

Our DD did this. Every year, starting in 2nd grade, we'd ask our daughters teacher, "is it possible she's dyslexic?" The Bs and Ds were always backwards too. Every year the answer was no, that it was developmentally appropriate and she'd probably grow out of it.

Her fifth grade teacher told us that some kids were just not good spellers, showed us data she had collected, and made us confident thay dyslexia was not the issue, and made us laugh as well

That child is in college now, majoring in English and wants to be a writer. Go figure

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Common until second grade for lefties and boys.

So if my first grade right handed daughter does this are you saying I should be concerned?

💯 - so, so normal

Yes, all of my kids did this. My 1st grader still does this, and her older siblings did and grew out of it by 3rd grade. If it's excessive, it can be a sign of dyslexia, but it's one of many symptoms.

My DS wrote a 3 or 4 letter word (just don't remember the word) entirely backward in 3rd grade. I was horrified and the teacher told me "totally normal and fine" (thank you Mrs Nichols). Never happened again and DS was recently accepted to his top choice college.
So, data point of 1: it's totally fine!

My daughter still does this in second grade with 7s and 4s. She's gotten better though, so I think it's on the right track.

Very common.

Coming off the pandemic with math by iPad, my daughter's 4th grade teacher last year said half her class was still writing 7s backwards.

Yes. Common until second grade for lefties and boys.

Anonymous wrote:Is it common for K kids to write number backwards, especially number "2" number "3", & number "7"? She still write some letters backwards, especially "letter S" & "z".

Yes.

— teacher

Yes. My 2nd grader still does this with 5/2 and b/d.

Is it common for K kids to write number backwards, especially number "2" number "3", & number "7"? She still write some letters backwards, especially "letter S" & "z".