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On my travels to visit wonderful reading schools across the UK, I encounter more and more places that, conscious of these challenges, have moved away from keeping reading diaries in their traditional form. Following reading with writing reinforces the message that this is school business, rather than something valuable and enjoyable in its own right. If I think the article has a good form and some curious information in it, I simply post it in my https://www.reddit.com/r/keytostudy/ feed.

I tend to avoid numbers-based challenges, but I do like to consider my reading habits each year and what kind of books I want to read more of. My 2020 reading challenge was to read one nonfiction book per month and one book from my shelf. Great books sometimes send our thoughts in crazy directions–let yourself record what you’re thinking and feeling as you reflect. Share Your Reading Journal Ideas! Reading is an important skill to learn as it has many benefits for a child's overall development. You can record a child's progress with these skills within this helpful reading diary; it has space for comments, so you identify where a child's strengths are and where they may need more support. This means that the conversations between school and home aren’t about the positives of reading or the joy of books – instead, they concern the reading diary itself and why it isn’t up-to-date. This is my favorite option, and not just because I made them for sale. For me, a pre-printed reading journal ensures that I actually continue to write in my reading journals. Much as I like the idea of a beautiful bullet journal, actually creating one is not something I’ve ever been able to sustain.

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Reading challenges are a fun way to shake up your reading life, and they can take so many forms. A lot of people start reading challenges at the start of the year, but you can start a challenge anytime, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be bound by time. I’ve discussed tons of options for ways to use a book journal to enhance your own reading life, and I’m sure there are more. Now it’s time to get started on your own reading journal! Ah, my favorite! This is a new journal project I’ve started this year, and I expect it to be a lifelong collection of journals (maybe even something that will amuse my kids or grandkids after I’m gone?). This reading diary with comments for KS2 is a fantastic tool for recording your class' reading log and their progress. I enjoy both the public and private aspects of reflecting on reading, so I do both of these. Your choice depends on your goals, how you plan to write, and your comfort level with sharing your thoughts publicly. DIY Reading Journal

That’s why I made my own reading journals, with layouts and prompts that are flexible but also capture most of what I want to remember about a book. But keeping a physical journal with pen and paper has had multiple benefits to my reading life, including: A dedicated book journal for your reading challenge can be especially useful if your challenge will span a whole year (or even longer). It can help you stay focused on your goal and remember to work in those books that help meet your challenge. Writing things down– with pen and paper, not just online–is proven to help memory. And in a busy life with work, family, kids, friends, blogging, and–yes–lots and lots of books, I don’t always remember what I’ve read, or what I want to read. You may be the same.Finally, what I’m calling a “ thoughtful reading journal” is a type of journal that I haven’t actually started yet, but that I’ve been wanting more and more in my reading life. I am especially realizing this in 2020 as I read more nonfiction and more books for my antiracist education. You have a few options if you want to journal your reading in a digital format, but the main decision here is whether you want it to be public or private (or somewhere in between).

Rather than a reading diary that only has space for writing, some schools are moving to a model where there is room for pictures, diagrams, cuttings, as well as the written word. It’s somewhere for them to record their personal reading lives. Then we ask them to complete a piece of writing about it. Most other pleasurable leisure activities – television, computer games, sports or after-school clubs, for example – aren’t immediately followed by a piece of writing. Obviously, I keep a lot of reading journals. I’ve always loved journals and pens and stationery, and now that I’ve designed some pretty journals that fit my needs? All the better. To make it really simple, leave off the notes and just keep a running list of books. You might be surprised by how helpful it is to just have a list of the books you’ve read. I always keep the right links, but never keep the dates, time estimates, and the full bibliography. This is not something you should do, but simply a way to reduce the effort. I do read a lot, and any way I can reduce the workload helps

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One of the best ways of building a genuine reading culture is to allow children to talk about their reading. Building in regular time for children to share with each other the books they have (and perhaps haven’t) enjoyed can create a buzz about books and help children to develop the literary language that is so useful as they move through school. aReading diary is a tool we typically plan to use but end up not using. I confess I never really used a reading diary. I do use a number of alternative approaches. In this article, I will describe first what the reading diary theoretically should be, and then what can be used instead. You have lots of options if you want to start a reading journal and it’s okay to use a mix of them.