Do you want to encourage reading in your home this summer? Try our Free Summer Reading Logs! You can’t go wrong with positive incentives and accountability. Most of us would love to see our kids sitting on the couch reading a book rather than staring at a screen. And even though we all desire to see more reading in our home, we too get distracted by life. The best way to accomplish summer reading is to be proactive and purposeful. Our Free Summer Reading Logs will give you the accountability and push to actually read more!
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Why should you use a free summer reading log? Reading logs are daily reminders to read. For most of us, reading logs are used to encourage our kids to read. Reading logs are positive reinforcements for established readers and for those students who wince at reading. No matter where your reader is at, reading logs can be effective.
Preschool children usually fall into this category. These are kids who are learning to read, but aren’t quite ready to read books on their own. In our set of reading logs, you will find some logs with 25 books on them. These work well for pre-readers and younger readers. We like to use stickers to denote one book read. We can easily choose a 50 or even 100 book reading log, but I am the one who is doing the reading to the child. These reading logs have only white blocks in the table.
As my kids get older, the purpose of the reading logs change a bit. My students advance to a reading log with at least one gray-tinted row. The gray-tinted rows are meant to mark your student’s individual reading time. When my kids are first learning to read they are sitting with me on the couch deciphering words slowly. This takes time, effort, and can move slow depending on the student. To encourage them, these kids receive credit for their reading lessons and story time. The reading logs give them an incentive to keep up the hard work!
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With experience, each child progresses to a reading log that requires them to write the name of the book they have read. This reading log requires the student to record the time or pages read and then a parent’s initials.
Once our kid completes their reading log, there is some sort of prize connected to finishing. It could be ice cream, a date with dad, going to the movie, etc. I’m sure you will come up with something fun and motivating.
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