Million Word Campaign

“Few children learn to love books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; someone has to show them the way”.

Orville Prescott  

1 MILLION WORDS

WCMS STUDENTS HAVE READ

8MIL as tracked by Reading Counts during the first semester of this school year

  • 8th - 2.8M

  • 7th - 3.3M

  • 6th - 1.9M

MUST RECIEVE

70% on a quiz to receive word credit for that book

AWARDS & INCENTIVES

  • Parties

  • Bulletin Board Feature

  • Website/Social Media Feature

  • Certificates and Gift Cards

  • Monthly Events

BENEFITS INCLUDE

  • Expanding imagination

  • Building vocabulary

  • Thinking critically

  • Developing reading habits

WORDS IN YOUR CLASS COUNT ALSO

Anything that students read in class, from Newsela, to class novels, to reading passages can count towards the million words that each student should read per year.