Sized for US Letter. Choose "Background graphics" off for the cleanest result.
About this template
This is a printable a weekly reading log with one row per book and columns for genre and pages. It is intentionally narrow in scope — a single specialty template that does one thing well, sized to slot into the same binder as the rest of a teacher's planning materials.
It is built for Middle-school students and reading teachers and is designed to be reached for during a particular moment in the teaching week — the moment a parent calls, a behavior incident happens, a club meeting begins, or a project launches.
What's on the page
The template is a single page sized for US Letter, with the structural elements you need and nothing else.
- A header strip with student or class name, date, and a brief context line
- A main grid sized to the typical use case for Middle-school students and reading teachers
- A notes or follow-up footer for the actions that come out of the page
- Federal-holiday markers where the template is dated, so a week containing a holiday reads correctly
- Print-friendly design that survives daily handwriting use
When to reach for this template
The Reading log — weekly sits at the intersection of two needs: documenting what is happening in the classroom and providing a reusable tool for the moments when documentation matters most. Most teachers print a small stack of these at the start of the year and keep them in a labeled folder, ready to grab when the moment arrives. The template is intentionally simple so that the act of filling it out doesn't feel like a chore on top of an already busy day.
In schools that use multi-tier systems of support, the Reading log — weekly often becomes part of the documentation packet that goes to a problem-solving team. Building the habit of using a single, clean template across the year means that a year's worth of documentation reads as a coherent record rather than a disorganised pile of sticky notes.
Who uses this in practice
Middle-school students and reading teachers use this template in the context of Independent-reading accountability. The page is sized so that filling it out takes less time than handwriting a free-form note in a notebook — the structure does the thinking and you only fill in the specifics. Co-teachers, counselors, and case managers can read a completed page in under a minute, which makes the template useful as a hand-off document during transitions and meetings.
How to file these through the year
Print a stack at the beginning of each quarter and keep them in a labeled folder. As the pages are filled out, file them chronologically; at the end of each quarter, review the stack for patterns. A pile of Reading log — weekly pages becomes a real record of how the year unfolded — not a memory or a guess, but a paper trail that documents the work that was actually done.
Print and binder tips
Print on standard 20-lb white paper for working use. For end-of-year archiving — particularly for IEP, 504, behavior, or parent-communication documentation — re-print final versions on slightly heavier paper so the long-term file holds up. The template prints to the same dimensions as the rest of PlannerGrid, so it filed neatly alongside the weekly lesson planner and the monthly overview.
Pairs well with
These printable templates from PlannerGrid are commonly used alongside the Reading log — weekly. Open any of them, print together, and clip into the same binder.
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About PlannerGrid templates
Every template on PlannerGrid is built for the U.S. school calendar — an August-to-July cycle that lines up with how teachers, students, and homeschool families actually plan their year. We overlay U.S. federal holidays from the Office of Personnel Management list so school breaks and observed days never collide with planned instruction. The grid is the same across every page so you can print, hole-punch, and mix layouts in one binder.