I have a struggling reader who has just started year 1. Our school have just changed the reading records so we now just date and initial with no room to write comments. There is no space for the teacher to write comments either. I feel like quite an important line of communication has been closed, especially with a struggling reader.
My boy has an EHCP and AFAIK reads 3 days a week at school but they've just removed all ability to communicate via the reading record. I found it really helpful last year when they wrote roughly what he had managed in class or found tricky. It also makes it difficult from my POV to comment when we've attempted to read and he won't engage or if we've not been successful with the book but have done some other bits instead. Do I sign when I've waved the book in his face but he won't engage? Do I only sign when he's actually read something? (In which case am I going to get grief for not hitting the 3 times a week?). Do I sign if we've done something else like playing a phonics game?
I'm not sure if I'm being unreasonable or not but I also don't see how doing it without communication works?