Tan Huynh (@TanELLclassroom) is a career teacher specializing in language acquisition. Tan has taught students from 5th to 12th grade in public schools, private boarding schools, and charter schools.

The new question-of-the-week is: Should “reading logs” be assigned to students and, if not, what are alternatives? “Reading logs” are forms that, typically, parents have to sign showing that their ...