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.

Chaos, are these the Reading Records the children carry to and from school? If so, lemme at 'em can you recruit one of your mates to say something to the teacher instead?

I totally understand your thoughts, though. It just depresses me that this is what the children are seeing as 'correct.'

Absolutly, text speak has no place in schools, I do use it in texts, but everything else, I don't think it is too much to expect proper literacy to be used I am not the founding member of the grammar police btw especially in schools. I suppose though, looking at some of the posts up thread, the school has to be careful also, if they ask the other reader about this and it does turn out she has issues with writing, it could open a whole can of worms. I would find it very hard not to say anything though.

Perhaps a bit off topic, but when i taught FT I had a really tricky parent who questioned everything I did ( to my HT ). I learned, from her DC that she could not read or write. She was taking adult learning classes and had kind of got to the ' I can achieve' stage before the 'I can do ' stage.
I had nothing but admiration for this person and made sure I told her so. Our relationship became instantly better.
The things she wrote in the reading log were sometimes hard to interpret, but as said above, so much better than no input at all.
It is always possible to point out how things could be different in books without denigrating the person who has put it there.

I think if its another parent volenteer then its not the end of the world. Its no worse than the shared reading that children often do together in a class. Is it really worse reading to a semi literate volenteer than a child not reading at all.

I would be horrified if a paid member of staff had such hideous grammar.

I meant to ask, have you heard any comments from parents about it, or do you know any of them to ask what they think about it?

I have more of a problem with a lack of punctuation in children's books. The Oxford Reading Tree never seem to have any question marks in them. Has anyone else noticed this?

ReallyTired it IS a paid member of staff rather than a volunteer!

Yup, ReallyTired, the culprit is staff.

I haven't noticed the lack of question marks, Debsbear, but I will check each book thoroughyl as a distraction technique.