to find these comments in the Reading Records pff-putting?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

I volunteer at a local school, listening to infants read and changing their reading books.

Each week I am totally distracted from the task at hand [hyperbole] by the comments another adult makes in the books.

Recently there has been a spate of "loveli reading", "sooper reading" and "gr8 stuff".

The adult in question reads the day before me and so, try as I might, I can't avoid glancing at the large writing and funky tittles. It totally puts me out of step and I can get very clenchy.

AIBU to be about this?

And please give me some copinh strategies.

Please.

Firstly, YANBU,, I would think someone helping with literacy would have a basic grasp of it themselves. Secondly pff putting copinh the irony!

At least the adult loves their child enough to listen to their child read. The parent can't help it if they have literacy problems.

I think that poor grammar in a reading diary is a red flag to the school that the child needs to be heard by a parent helper on a regular basis. The school is probably glad to have you listen to the child read.

You are sure it's not a reading partner from another class?
I know DD's school do this shared reading thing.

If it is an adult helper yanbu at all.

When picking up my DD after school I over heard a TA to a child with learning problems tell his Mum quote "that he had done good today". umm what chance does that child have [shocked]

ReallyTired, I don't think I was clear - this is someone who reads with the whole class the day before me, not one individual parent.

And, Oi, CalamityBoo - I'm a friffing awful typer!

Sorry, Sandalwood, missed you there - nope this is a true adult.

Have you shown the reading diary to the teacher in charge, or whoever organises the reading rota? If she is reading with the children you would expect her to have good literacy, I would not expect text speak in a childs rading record.

One of the parents in my dd's class does a short review of he book in the comments section.

"Mrs May gets a new puppy but it gets lost in the park. Everyone looks for him and Floppy finds him"

"The teacher gets out the dressing up box. Jack dresses up as a pirate, Lisa as a dog and Meg as a firefighter"

I can't help reading them so I can't concentrate on listening to the child. the stories are dull as fuck in the first place do why can't I stop reading these reviews?

YANBU. When I helped with reading I read the teacher's comments first and just copied whichever one was appropriate into their reading books (e.g. excellent reading, good try, good blending, etc.).

CalamityBoo - the teacher looks at the Reading Records sporadically, so I'd be surprised if she hasn't seen these comments. Which knid of begs the question as to why they haven't been addressed.

Who am I, a volunteer, to comment on the comments, iyswim?

As parents we can write whatever we want in our reading records but as parent helpers in school we are only allowed to write the details of what was read and leave our signature. I would not be happy for another parent to comment on my child's reading ability and certainly not if they couldn't even use proper words.

How would they be addressed though? "Hello Mrs X, I notice your grammar is shit and your spelling is dire, please sign up for the nearest adult learning class as soon as possible."

I would get clench too OP!

clenchy even!

I run out of things to say because my DS doesnt read so its always me reading to him. I normally end up saying 'We really liked this book'. I would love some more suggestions.

This book really appealed to X
X wasn't sure about the ending of this book
This book was exciting/interesting/suspenseful/boring

Yes, they can't spell and have little knowledge of grammar. In an ideal world, neither of these would be the case. As a professional with university level education, I spot people's mistakes and inwardly wince a little. However, as the wife of a dyslexic, I know that to correct them would be both hurtful and very rude!
Look at it this way, in a school of hundreds of kids, how many mums, even SAHMs, made the time to volunteer to help? This person did.

Sorry - have now realised I haven't explained it properly - she's not a volunteer - she's a part-time LA.

Now that sounds like dripfeeding but it's not, it's not writing the OP properly.

Oh Lord, that's even worse!

If she's a pert-time LA, I'd be having a quiet word with the teacher. I do not expect to see text speak and poor spelling in my child's reading record.

'pert-time LA' - oh dear, sorry!

chaos don't worry that is what I thought you meant, I wuold be surprised if it keeps going unchecked by the teachers. Do parents have access to the reading records as well? I would be horrified if I saw that in one of my DC's reading records.

Poledra.

Firstly .

Secondly, the way I see it, if she's writing like this in the RRs, then there's evidence elsewhere of it, so I'm assuming it's been noticed and a decision has been made to leave it, which saddens me, but I feel it's not my position to mention it.

Yup, CalamityBoo, the books go back and forth.

I glad you empathise with me, and I'm not being pernickity.