📒 Reading log for kids: the family log on this device v0.1.0

How the reading log works

1. Pick your animal. Each reader on the device has their own, up to six, the same animals as the reading challenges. Nobody types a name.
2. Tap a day. Today is picked already; any day in the past year can be filled in, so a missed week is no trouble.
3. Tap Log a book and tap the book: a Peabody story at your level, a book from a kids' list or a series, or, with a grown-up, a book from somewhere else.
4. Read one book to two or three children? Tap Read together, pick who was there, and one tap logs it for everyone.
5. Print the week or the month: just the log, with a line to sum up each day, or with a question a day for grades 2 to 5, and with or without a grown-up's signature line.

Minutes and pages. Some schools ask for reading minutes. A grown-up presses and holds the grown-up corner for two seconds, then types the minutes (and pages, if asked). The books count on their own: minutes are never needed.

Days in a row. Read on two days running and dots show the streak. One missed day a week is forgiven, and a missed day never gets a line about it. A book logged in a reading challenge counts as a reading day here too.

Where the log is kept

Only in this browser, on this device. Nothing a child logs is sent to Peabody or anyone else, and there is no account. If the browser's data is cleared, the log goes with it, so the grown-up corner can save it as a file: a spreadsheet file (CSV) for a teacher or a homeschool record, or a backup file that brings the log back here or on another device. The same corner clears one reader's log, the whole log, or every log on the device.

Want paper only? The weekly reading log and the monthly reading log print blank. For a goal with a finish line, try 100 Books or Winter Break.

Are reading logs effective?

It depends on the log. The one study that tested a log head to head (Sarah Pak and Allyson Weseley, Journal of Research in Education, 2012; ERIC record EJ1098404) gave 112 second and third graders either a mandatory log or a voluntary one; after two months, the children with the mandatory log had lost more interest in reading for fun. It measured how children felt, not how much they read, and it was small and short. Nobody has tested a log a child keeps because they want to. So this one counts books rather than minutes, needs no signature, forgives a missed day, and lets the child do the tapping. More in reading logs without the nightly signature and reading logs: help or hurt? (study read at ERIC on 31 Oct 2026).