We have this computer program called Raz Kids that they want our kids to use that I hate because the books are inane. I just focus on us reading something together everyday and check off the calendar.

OP, you are over-thinking this.

My DD is in 2nd grade and already reads a lot. We just jot down what she's been reading and just put 15 min regardless of if she read for 10 min or 1 hour.

Btw, you're thinking about this NOW and it's like 8 months away?! Yikes...

I think it's mostly a suggestion/guidelines--something children should be doing. When our child had to keep a detailed graded reading log it was pretty dreadful and made something pleasurable feel not so much, but when our child was asked to read independently about a book a month and write a little something up--it actually kept our child accountable to a healthy brain habit. It is amazing how easy it is for reading to fall by the wayside. In our experience, it is often crowded out by collected assignments and the first thing to go. I appreciate when schools make a point about it, in a not too prescriptive way. It gives some leverage to parents of reluctant readers as well.

Some days we read 4 books, other days (like yesterday when it was amazing outside) we play more. I know we read enough throughout the week, so I put down the books, but it doesn't necessarily correspond with the actual day the work was done.

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Anonymous wrote:We ignore it completely and don't mention what the school says to the kids. Once a month or once a week I initial the reading chart for all the past days so the kid can turn it in at school.

That doesn't work at our school. Starting in K, the kids write what book they read and for how long.

^ Same with us.

My boys love to read and have to read every day for 20 for school reading, it's one of the easiest assignments they have. Most of the time they read, get lost in the story, I'm making dinner and they have been reading for an hour, I have to remind them they still have other homework.

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, the person who keeps using "snowflake" is the most annoying person on this board.

I think the person who uses "coz" is.

This is us. We read a ton with our kids (5 and 3), so when the eldest started K this fall we weren't sure if we had to read her daily homework book, or if we could just continue reading the books we have with her at home. Her teacher explained that it was great that we were doing so much reading on our own, but that the homework books were books that the teacher had selected for the class and so we should read those too. So that's what we do. It's no biggie and the fact that the book is called "homework" does not sour her on reading at all. If may, in fact, make homework seem like a more positive experience.

I have a child who's excelling in reading and I think reading every day for 20 minutes beyond school is a bit excessive. I think this is the problem more than that it's an assignment. We try to have DC read each day, but don't sweat it if it doesn't work out and we also spend a lot of time reading to our children too. The log is both for them reading and for parents reading to them and I like it this way at least for kindergarten and 1st grade.

Ugh, the person who keeps using "snowflake" is the most annoying person on this board.