Printable Reading Log for Kids

This printable reading log for kids has seven different log pages in one PDF, so you can pick the one your child will actually keep up with. Print the page you like as many times as you need. There is a daily log with star ratings, a weekly log with minutes, a month of books to color, a list of 30 books, a book report, reading bingo and a 500 minute tracker.

What is in the 8 pages

• Page 1, my reading log: date, book title, minutes and five stars to color for each book.
• Page 2, weekly reading log: one row for each day from Monday to Sunday, the minutes read, a box for a grown-up to sign, and the week’s total.
• Page 3, a month of books: 31 numbered books. Color one for every day you read.
• Page 4, books I have read: 30 numbered lines for the titles of finished books.
• Page 5, my book report: title, author, main character, favorite part, a star rating and a box to draw.
• Page 6, reading bingo: 25 reading challenges with a free square in the middle.
• Page 7, 500 minutes of reading: 100 boxes of 5 minutes each, with every row marked at 50 minutes.

Which page to use

Teachers who ask for reading minutes each week usually want page 2, because it has the days, the minutes and the grown-up’s initials in one place. Younger children do better with page 3, where there is nothing to write. They color a book and see the month fill up. Page 7 suits a summer or holiday goal, since 500 minutes is about 20 minutes a day for a little under a month.

Reading bingo

The bingo card turns reading into small dares. Read in bed, read with a flashlight, read to a pet or a toy, read in a blanket fort, read a recipe, read a book twice. Five colored squares in a row make a bingo, and the middle square is free. Use it next to another log when your child is tired of writing titles.

Who it is for

The log pages suit ages about 5 to 10. A kindergartner can color the month of books or the minutes chart while a grown-up writes the titles, and a third grader can fill in the book report alone. For something to read first, try the kindergarten reading comprehension worksheets or the 1st grade reading comprehension worksheets.

Printing

Print at 100% scale, not Fit to page. The log comes as an A4 PDF and a US Letter PDF with the same pages. Black ink only, and the stars and books are left white for coloring.

Printing this one correctly

In your printer dialog set Scale to 100% or Actual size, not Fit to page. Fit to page shrinks the tracing letters and they stop matching the size a child's hand is learning.

Plain paper is fine for crayons and pencils. If your child uses felt pens, 100 gsm paper stops the ink bleeding to the next sheet.