Want to help your first grade students do more independent reading? Let your students color a funny book face for every book that they read! They don't have to write the title, author or any other information. I think reading should be fun, and sometimes our reading logs take the fun out of reading. We want to know how many books they read, but we don't need to make it too much work for our kindergarten, first grade, or second grade students. Writing is still a chore for them, so just let them c