How do your record the books your dc have read?

[Friederike in Persia]

I'm thinking of starting a book for each dc, where they write down what book they've read and...not so sure how much more I'll have them write down.
Any suggestions?

Sorry, I didn't make myself too clear. I meant, that I want them to write something down about what they've read. From a one sentence description to a full blown book report from time to time. Is this overambitious? They read 5-20 books a week.

[Lisawa]

Yes... I found a form online year’s ago and I love it… I will try to Google and see if I can find it… but we write down the title, author, isbn, what type of reading and publisher.

I will go and look and see if I can find it, or something like it....

[Sue G in PA]

I use one that has your record the title, author, # pages, date started and date finished (I leave that blank!). I'm really behind on filling it out, though! Hope I can remember all the "academic" books they read. I'll never be able to remember all the "other" books my dd11 has consumed :)

[Beth in Central TX]

I track all of the books that my boys read in Edu-Track. The software allows me to sort by date, author, and title. I can print also print reports. This helps me greatly because once each boys has read 'X' number of pages (it depends on the boy), then they can go out on Saturday for "Donuts with Dad". It's a great motivator.

[Kate in Arabia]

I have a small notebook that my older ds (10) uses. he writes the title, the author, and then whtever else he wants. Sometimes he writes about the plot, sometimes he write quotes from the book that he likes, and sometimes he draws a picture.

I'm trying to keep it "light" as I want it to be more a personal thing than an assignment, kwim?

[training5]

I created a spreadsheet file with the master list of books I want them to read. Each boy has his own column that gets filled in as he reads and writes his book summary. Then I have a separate file with 20 books that we hang on the wall. I just reprint/rewrite as they fill it in. They love the visual of seeing how many books they read.
Last year, we used Mead Primary Journals for the 'reports'. They had to write the title, author, a short summary, and draw a picture. This year, I am trying to follow a similar pattern using StartWrite so they have to trace their 'report'. I added in a list of characters and the setting. Works for us.

[LNC]

every single book your children read. Not the books assigned, but every book they pick up and finish? Wow! I have no idea all the books my 8yo has read. Lots and lots. Should I be keeping track somewhere??

[Mrs. Readsalot]

I put loose leaf paper in a folder with clips. I list each book by title, author, pages, reading level and then a code for type of book H=history S - science L - Literature R-Religious N other non-fiction F- other fiction and B if he did a bookreport for the book Some books will have multiple codes.

[KYHokiemom]

Each child has a simple book list with title, author, F/NF, date finished in front of their language arts notebook to keep track of library books. I keep track of all school assigned books in EduTrac (homeschool planning software). With all of the reading we do, some recording definitely falls through the cracks. (I have been known to pull my book cart aside at the library and record authors and titles!;) ) Twice a month, the kids also have book reports on assigned reading for lit.

[Kate in Arabia]

every single book your children read. Not the books assigned, but every book they pick up and finish? Wow! I have no idea all the books my 8yo has read. Lots and lots. Should I be keeping track somewhere??The reason it first occurred to me to even keep track at all was last year our advisor at our umbrella school asked "what has your ds read this year", and my response was, "uh, a lot?" lol

So I don't know if you "should" be keeping track, I thought that maybe I should have some clue, lol, and I came up with the idea of a journal because I also wanted to try and kickstart ds' writing. He's actually really taken to it. If he had balked or didn't like it, I wouldn't push it.

[Margaret in CO]

I keep an Excel file with title, author, beginning and ending date and number of pages. Oh, and the owner of the book--very handy for the next child on down the line. This log makes me feel better in those months when "we aren't getting anything done!"

[Kristiana]

I keep a list of books my 1st grader has read this year on my blog. I really should start having him do book reports or something more, but for now at least I have a list. I also record non-fiction books we read together.

[Karenciavo]

I just keep track on books read for school using the form Sue mentioned from Donna Young (http://www.donnayoung.org/forms/planners/book_list.htm) for my older two. I made a form (http://homepage.mac.com/rivendellpress/FileSharing21.html) for my 5 yo old and in addition to titles, I keep track of whatever elocution (style) or spelling (I also have started noting grammar with spelling) we go over with the book.