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Considering that the current situation of the compulsory education period created some sorts of problems in our country, an education system, which is known as 4+4+4 in public has been implemented in 11th April, 2012. It is thought that it is vital to determine the outcomes of the 4+4+4 system within the scope of the age of starting school. In this context, the basic aim in this present study is to determine the dispositions of children, who started the primary school in their 6, in terms of their writing behaviour. The research was designed as a descriptive study, in which the comparative relational scanning model was used, aiming to determine the writing dispositions of children started school in their 6. The research was carried out with 235 students who started the primary school in 6 and 7 years old. The research included 116 female and 119 male students who are 3rd and 4th graders in primary school. According to the results reached in the study, it was found that significiant differences among writing dispositions of the students who started the school in their 6 and 7.