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Reading Log

A week of reading on one page, with room for a grown-up’s initials.

Free. No account, no email, nothing to install.Families and teachers · Any week of the year

A one-page reading log headed with a week beginning date, a row for each day of the week with columns for book title and author, minutes, pages read, how the child read, and a grown-up’s initials, then a total minutes row and a space to write one sentence about the story.
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1 page · US Letter · prints in black and white

No email address, no account. Print as many as you need, including for a whole class.

For schools and PTOs

Put your school's name on it

Type a school name and it appears on the sheet. Print a class set or a school set — there is nothing to buy and nothing to attribute.

 

The name you type stays in this browser. It is not sent to us, not saved, and not recorded anywhere — closing the tab is enough to remove it. In the print dialog, choose Save as PDF to keep a copy.

What the sheet asks

  • Week beginning
  • Day
  • Book title / author
  • Minutes
  • Pages read (from / to)
  • How did you read? — on my own, with help, or I listened
  • Grown-up’s initials
  • Total minutes this week
  • One sentence: what happened in the story today?

How to use it

  1. Print one page for the week and write in the date it begins.
  2. Each day, fill in the book and the minutes, and tick how they read.
  3. A grown-up initials the row, and it goes back when the school asks.

Any week of the year, and most useful the week a school starts asking for one. Print it on Monday and send it back on the day the school wants it. The three reading options matter more than they look: a child who listened to a story still read that day, and a log that only counts reading alone quietly teaches them otherwise. Younger children can circle and tick their way down the sheet and write the sentence only when they want to.

Questions people ask

May I photocopy this for my whole class?
Yes. Print, copy and hand out as many as you need, for a class, a year group or a whole school. There is no licence to buy and nothing to attribute.
Does it need to be printed in colour?
No. It is drawn for a black and white school photocopier, which is where most reading logs end up, and it is meant to be written on with a pen.
My child cannot write a sentence yet. Is it still usable?
Yes. The daily rows are titles, numbers and ticks, which a five-year-old can manage with help. The sentence box at the foot is one per week, not one per day, and leaving it blank does not spoil the sheet.
Does listening to an audiobook count?
That is for the school to say, but the sheet makes room for it: "I listened" is one of the three options on every row, so a child records what actually happened rather than choosing between a wrong box and a blank one.