Million Words Challenge Data Tracking Sheets Update 2024

Million Words Challenge

Data Tracking Sheets

Updated June 2024

Motivate and empower your students to define and set reading goals to show the number of words they’ve read over an entire school year!

Help your students track their number of words read growth over time in a way that’s visual and concrete!

I developed this Million Words Challenge to have an additional, fresh approach using Accelerated Reader.

Any book quiz option will give added accountability and documentation for your students’ word count data tracking progress and success.

* I wanted my students to embrace the understanding that adults do not choose a book to read because of the thickness of the book spine or the number of Reading Counts or Accelerated Reader points a book might be worth.

* I wanted to eliminate that book spine thickness or book point value from the reasons students chose something to read. Helping students track the number of words they read over time did just that!

* I wanted my students to visit the Library with enthusiasm, selecting books by an author they've come to enjoy, a genre that has them hooked, excited about the next book in an author's series, and gain comfort and confidence exploring nonfiction and/or a genre that might be something my students wouldn't ordinarily select.

* I tried other data tracking options with my 5th graders, and with 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th grade students I tutored, including tracking the number of books read or number of minutes spent reading. I found having my students monitor and track the number of words read, instead of books or minutes to show growth over time, aligned more closely with best practices research I read.

* tracking the number of words students were reading allowed me to easily differentiate for my students’ varying abilities and interests; students could continue to listen to something read aloud and/or read independently with either method contributing to their Million Words Challenge progress and success.

This classroom AND tutor-tested UPDATED (June 2024) product file includes:

* 40,000 Words Read Data Tracking sheet pdf file

(to help students get started working toward reading one million words)

* 200,000 Words Read Data Tracking sheet pdf file

* 400,000 Words Read Data Tracking sheet pdf file

* 600,000 Words Read Data Tracking sheet pdf file

* 800,000 Words Read Data Tracking sheet pdf file

* 1,000,000 Words Read Data Tracking sheet pdf file

* my Teacher Notes/Classroom Management Suggestions sharing my experiences using these data tracking sheets with students

Suggested to display my 40,000 Words Read Data Tracking sheet and my One Million Words Read Data Tracking sheet on your Smartboard to show students how to use them #iamavisuallearner

The process to download or print any of these pdf files does NOT need TPT to access your Google Drive.