Plan and reflect
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Thinking sheet · Plan and reflect
Reading Log with Doodles
Log a week of reading with a quick doodle for each day’s favorite moment.
- Grades
- 1–5
- Time
- about 10 minutes
- Topic
- Plan and reflect
- Kids practice
- reading stamina, recall, summarizing in pictures
What kids do
“Read, then doodle the best part. One box a day!”
- My book:
- One doodle a day
- This week my book was:
How to run it
- Doodles take two minutes, not twenty.
- Write the day and the pages read on each card.
- Send it home for the week.
Talk about it
- Which doodle shows the biggest moment?
- Did the book get better?
- Who would you give this book to?
Take it further
Turn the six doodles into a comic strip.
Pairs well with
Free for home and classroom use. Print as many copies as you need.
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