A student's reading diary on literature at school. Sample design, title page, full templates in Word

Many parents try to instill a love of reading in their children from early childhood. Of course, how well a son or daughter reads quickly and outperforms his peers.

However, many children are often dissatisfied with reading; they simply do not want to read and are not interested in books.

To do this, many literature teachers suggest making a reading diary, which will make this process interesting and exciting.

Child psychologists say that a reading diary is a necessary thing.

It will make reading easier, the child will be able to write down all the stories he read, starting from early childhood, and in the future it will become his pride and pleasant memory.

So, what does a reading diary give, namely, what does it teach the child:

It helps to correctly understand the main idea of the story you read.
With its help, the child learns to retell correctly, express his thoughts, and speak competently.
His memory improves, he analyzes the work and draws his own conclusion.
Remembers the works read and their authors.
It develops reading skills and reader culture.

Sample design

You can design a reading diary for grades 1, 2, 3, 4 at your discretion.

On the Internet you can view samples of ready-made options that can be taken as a basis.

But it’s still worth considering its sections and their contents first:

Chapter	Description
Title page	This is a cover that should contain important information - the student’s last and first name, class, school number. The title “Reader’s Diary”, “Reader’s Diary”, “I Read with Pleasure” is also indicated. Additionally, you can decorate the cover colorfully, draw pictures, patterns, stick pictures
Content	It's a good idea to leave a few blank pages at the beginning of your diary for content. They will indicate the names of the books that the child has read
Diary spread	This part indicates the most important thing - a summary of the story, the main characters, the main idea. Frames, tables, logos, drawings can be used for design.
Additional sections	You can include sections called “My golden collection”, “I recommend reading”, “Read it, you won’t regret it!”

Many literature teachers use ready-made forms in which the student can indicate the stories he has read, write a summary, reviews, and write down other important information.

Below are sample designs:

Example of correct filling

For students in grades 1, 2, 3, 4, there are items that must be included in the reading diary.

Consider:

Title of the work.
FULL NAME. author.
You must indicate the genre in which the work is written.
It is advisable to draw a picture for a book you read.
List of the main characters of the story. It is recommended to provide a brief description of each.
Brief content of the work. This paragraph should indicate what the story is about, what you liked and what you didn’t.

Each parent can fill out a diary with their child. You can also think over your own filling and design options.

The child can add drawings himself; colored pens, pencils, paints, felt-tip pens and other decorative devices can be used for decoration.

Important! If a diary is being made for a 1st grade student, then it will be difficult for him to compose a description and description of the story on his own.

Parents must fill it out with him at first; they must explain how this is done and attract his attention.

Ready reader's diary

Read the title, first name, last name of the author.
Flip through me, look at all the illustrations.
Guess what I'm going to tell you about.
Read the text yourself in small parts, check and clarify your assumptions.
Think about why I have this name.
Work on the features of speech: voice color, volume, tempo.

Sample recommended list of extracurricular reading

S. Marshak “Children in a cage”, “Why was the cat called a cat?”, “Mail”, “He’s so absent-minded”

L. Tolstoy “Two Comrades”, “Bulka”

B. Zakhoder “Bird School”

A. Barto "Katya"

Brothers Grimm "Three Brothers"

M. Prishvin “Birch bark tube”, “Hedgehog”

N. Nosov “Entertainers”, “Mishkina Porridge”, “Living Hat”

S. V. Mikhalkov “Uncle Styopa”, “What do you have?”

K. I. Chukovsky “Telephone”, “Tsokotukha Fly”, “Moidodyr”, “Cockroach”, “Stolen Sun”

A. S. Pushkin “There is a green oak near the Lukomorye”

V. V. Mayakovsky “Horse-Fire”, “Who to be?”, “What is good and what is bad”

M. Gorky “Sparrow”, “Burning Heart”, “About Ivanushka the Fool”, “Morning”

C. Perrault “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Puss in Boots”

An example of the design of columns in a reader's diary:

When filling out a diary, many may have difficulty presenting a brief description of the work, especially for 1st grade students.

To understand how this is done, you can consider a brief summary of famous children's stories and fairy tales:

Stories, fairy tales and authors	Brief contents of the works
"The Little Prince", Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	A parable about how you cannot see the most beautiful things in life with your eyes, you must see and hear with your heart, otherwise among many people a person is lonely and unhappy
"Scarlet Sails", Alexander Green	The work tells about the dreams and faith of a young girl in love and dreams. She was waiting for a prince who would one day sail to her on a large ship with scarlet sails, and her dream soon came true
“Gray Neck”, D. Mamin-Sibiryak	When someone gets into trouble, some rush to help, while others are not averse to taking advantage of weakness. A fairy tale about how to help your comrades out of trouble when you yourself are afraid to get into it
“White Poodle”, A. I. Kuprin	A boy from a wealthy family likes the white poodle that traveling performers perform with. The dog is persuaded to sell, then stolen. Little acrobat rescues the dog
“French Lessons”, V. Rasputin	The main character of the story is a boy from a poor village family. In order to continue his studies at school, he is forced to leave home for the regional center. Only there can he go to 5th grade. The boy studies well, with the exception of French
“Frog Traveler” by V.M. Garshin	The author tells the story of a frog who was bored with life in his native swamp, and went in search of adventure by air, on ducks. On the way, the unlucky traveler falls into another swamp and decides that it is more interesting
“Malachite Box” P. Bazhov	It tells about the legends of the Ural Mountains, about the hard underground labor of mountain workers, about the art of folk stone cutters and lapidaries. The work describes the events of ancient times, when many people did not have complete freedom, and were entirely dependent on their master
“The Wonderful Doctor”, A. I. Kuprin	The family is beset with illnesses and misfortunes one after another. The father of the family is already thinking about suicide, but he meets a doctor who helps him cope with difficulties and becomes their guardian angel
“Children of the Dungeon”, V. Korolenko	A boy from a good family is faced with the cruelty and injustice of the world towards the poor. Despite the difficulties, he shows compassion, kindness and nobility in helping the disadvantaged
"Robinson Crusoe", D. Defoe	The book is about the fact that there are no hopeless situations, but think with your child about the question: “What kind of people surrounded Robinson, and what did they do? Who understood their life path and how?” Who knows at what age these questions will be useful
“Chameleon”, A. P. Chekhov	The police supervisor is trying to fulfill his official duty, but the instilled servility prevents him
“Three Fat Men”, Y. Olesha	Thanks to a lucky coincidence, the circus performer Suok ends up in the palace of the rulers. She is not afraid of difficulties and obstacles, Suok will do everything to overthrow the tyrants from the throne
“The Scarlet Flower”, S. T. Aksakov	The fairy tale introduces the reader to a merchant who tenderly loves his daughters and the youngest daughter in the family, who, in order to save her father’s life, agrees to live in the monster’s palace

There are other interesting stories that you can read with your children - “The Ugly Duckling”, “Flint” - Andersen. “Pantry of the Sun” - M.M. Prishvin, “Gutta-percha boy” - D.

Grigorovich, "Steel Ring". “Warm Bread” - K. Paustovsky, “Silver Hoof”, “Stone Flower” - P. Bazhov. “Lilac bush” - A.I. Kuprin, “Sivka-burka” - A.N. Tolstoy, “Mary Poppins” - P. Travers.

“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” - M. Twain, “In the Country.” “Tanka”, “Numbers”, “Snow Bull” - I.A. Bunin.

A reading diary for children is a good way to improve reading and develop a love for this activity.

The main thing is to attract the child, come up with a colorful design and motivate him to conduct it.

In the future, an older child (3rd grade or 4th grade) will teach it himself with special interest and will try to read as many works as possible.

Useful video

Starting from the first grade, children are given a certain list of books that they must read before the start of the new school year. Journal entries will help the student remember the contents of the book. The reader's diary contains all the information about the books assigned for reading. It is not difficult to prepare such a diary, the main thing is to put in a little effort.

Step 1. Diary cover page

At the very beginning, you need to decide on how to design your reader’s diary. You can take a regular checkered notebook as a basis. On the title page we place the inscription: “Reader’s Diary”, indicate the author’s first and last name and class. The child can design the cover to their liking.

Step 2. List of books read

On the next page, the contents of the reader's diary are prepared. It will list all the books that the child read over the summer. For maximum convenience, you can number the pages.

Step 3. The procedure for recording information about books read in the reading diary

When filling out information about the book you have read, you should adhere to a certain order:

We fill out all items in neat and beautiful handwriting. You will have the best reading journal in the class!

The school year has ended and all schoolchildren received lists of works for. As a rule, when handing out lists of works, the teacher requires that everything read in the summer be written down. And this requirement to keep a Reading Diary often causes indignation among parents, and consequently, the child begins to have a negative attitude towards this and does not comply with the teacher’s demands. Of course, this will not lead to anything good.

Let's figure out why and who needs it

Some parents say indignantly: “I am against reading diaries. This is a stupid writing out of the main characters, plot lines - sometimes I don’t even remember who’s name and the author’s name is parallel to me. I liked it, read it, and forgot about it.” Based on this comment, it turns out that We read in order to forget?!

Children read works not in order to forget, but in order to take away some thought from any work, to learn something new for themselves. In addition, very often the school holds various competitions, quizzes, and intellectual marathons, in which you need to remember everything you once read. If a child reads it and forgets, then, of course, he won’t remember anything. Those. The book was read in vain, nothing remained in my head.

“Mine doesn’t need this, and she does it under pressure. It doesn’t make her any better.” Of course, if a child does it under pressure, then this will not cause positive emotions. And it is not intended to develop a love of reading. It has a completely different goal - to teach the child to draw conclusions from what he read, to help the child better remember and understand the work.

Among parents there are many who support Reader's diary. “At the beginning, black hole is good. It disciplines. This allows you to dot the i's in what you read and draw conclusions, at least two or three sentences. And in the end, it helps to express your thoughts in writing.” It is absolutely rightly noted that keeping a Reader’s Diary disciplines and teaches you to draw conclusions about what you read.

Another mother continues the same thought: “No, he definitely didn’t discourage us from reading or the ability to do it. But new skills, one might say, have appeared. It was clearly visible how in 2nd grade I was generally bad at text analysis; I could barely write a diary. And at 3 it was already easy”

So why do you need a Reader's Diary?

In elementary school, it is very difficult for students to formulate their thoughts, not only in writing, but even orally. Ask your child to say what he read about. In the best case, the child will begin to retell the text in great detail and this will drag on for a long time. But students in grades 1-2 and often even grades 3-4 will not be able to say in one sentence what is written in this fairy tale, what this story teaches, or the main idea of the text. They just don't know how to do it.

When conducting Reader's diary The child needs to write down the main idea in a separate column and express it in 1-2 sentences. This means that the child learns to draw a conclusion and express it in a very short phrase.

By analyzing the work and formulating a conclusion, the child better remembers the meaning of the work and, if necessary, he will easily remember this work.

By writing down the author of the work and the main characters, the child remembers this data. If this work is read during extracurricular reading, during competitions, quizzes, the child, after leafing through his reading diary, will easily remember both the characters of the work and the plot.

By reading various works and writing down the general content in a reading diary, the child not only trains, but also learns to analyze the work, highlight the main idea of the author, and understand what the author wanted to convey to the reader with his work. The child develops reading skills and reader culture.

Parents, by monitoring the maintenance of a reading diary, can easily track the interests of the child, understand which genre or direction interests the child more and, if necessary, adjust the direction of reading, offer the child books of a different genre.

How to design a reader's diary?

There is no uniform requirement for the design of a reading diary at school. Therefore, each teacher introduces his own requirements. I will show you how I require you to keep a Reader's Diary, and you yourself will choose the form of keeping a diary.

The main goal of keeping a Reading Diary is not to burden the child and parents with additional work, but to teach them to draw conclusions and develop a reader’s culture. Consequently, the requirements for the Reader's Diary are based on this goal. Therefore, my requirements forFormation is minimal. When keeping a reader's diary, immediately after reading a work or chapter, if the work is large, write down your conclusions.

For the Reader's Diary, we take a very ordinary notebook, preferably not very thin, so that it will last for the whole year, and not just for the summer. Let's break it down into several columns:

♦ reading date,

♦ title of the work,

♦ main characters,

♦ "About what?" Here the child, with the help of his parents, writes down the main idea of the text in 1-2 sentences.

If you fill it out regularly, it doesn’t take much time, but it does a good job of cementing the work in the child’s memory. And then, when during the school year, we conduct quizzes, extracurricular reading, children turn to their Reader’s Diary and remember what stories by N. Nosov they read, what characters are in fairy tales, authors of works and other data.

Moreover, if the work is large and the child reads slowly, then you can write down not only the chapters, but also the page numbers, if the chapter is very large and is read for more than one day.

Teach your child to keep a Reading Diary from the first grade, help him in the second, and then the child will do it himself. By spending very little time filling out the Reading Diary, you will teach your child to analyze what they read, better understand and remember books, and form a culture of reading.

It is interesting to know your opinion on the issue of maintaining a Reader's Diary. How do you lead it?

What types of reader's diaries are there?

diary report about the number of pages read silently or aloud, notes from parents who read with the child. There may be the following columns: number, title of the work and full name of the author, number of pages read, type of reading (aloud and silent), parent signature. Used in primary classes.
diary report about books read. Only book titles, author names, reading dates (June 2014, August 2014, etc.) are taken into account. There may also be “marginal notes,” that is, brief remarks about the book. This is more suitable for those who read a lot and voraciously. Yes, there are such children today.
diary-cheat sheet with a mini-analysis of works. The best option for awakening interest in reading.

What should be in a reader's diary and how to fill it out?

Full name of the author of the work
Title of the work
Number of pages
Genre of the work (poem, novel, short story, etc.)
In what year was the work written? What is this year known for in history? What was the situation in the country where the author lived?
Main characters. You can simply indicate their names, but you can also give a brief description: age, connections with other characters (older brother, father, friend, etc.), appearance, favorite activities, habits, you can give the page numbers on which the author gives the characteristics to the hero. Do you want to be like a hero? Why?
The plot, that is, what the book is about.
Review of the book.
List of key episodes in the book with page numbers.
The era in which the work takes place, or specific years. Who was in power then? In what country or city does the action take place?

High school students can also provide additional information:

List of critical literature by work or author.
Extracts of your favorite phrases and expressions.
Brief biography of the writer.

In addition to the usual information, you need to give your child the opportunity to draw in a reader’s diary, do crosswords, scanword puzzles, puzzles, also write a letter to the author of the book or characters, etc.

Is it possible to help a child keep a diary?

Yes, especially in primary school it may be too difficult for him. Moreover, you can even read together and, as you read, discuss the book, characters, events and fill out a diary.

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