Renaissance Reader Challenge #3: One Million Words

Time for our 3rd challenge of the year: The One Million Word Challenge

This Challenge is open to all students, parents, family, faculty and staff to read ONE MILLION WORDS.


Challenge starts: September 28, 2010 and ends on May 14, 2011


Renaissance Reader Challenge Guidelines: One Million Words

1. Pick up a Word Count Form in the Middle School Library, or create a form of your own
2. Read age appropriate books
3. Determine word count for each book (see formula below)
4. Turn in your form to Mr. Williamson in the library upon completion of this challenge.
5. (For students only) Books must not be class assigned books.


How to determine your word count for each book:
1. Grab a calculator (unless you are a mental math genius)
2. Open your book toward the middle
3. Count the number of words in three lines
4. Average the number of words in the three lines (add three lines and divide by three)
5. Count the number of lines on a page
6. Multiply the average words per line by the number of lines per page. (this will give you an estimate of words on a page)
7. Find the total number of pages in your book
8. Multiply the number of pages in your book by the estimated number of words on a page.
9. This final number will be used to determine your number of words per book.

EXAMPLE:
The line word total =33 (average 11)
Number of Lines per page = 28
Number of pages per book = 118
11x28x118 = 36,344 words


Good Luck, I think you'll be surprised how fast your word count increases. You can complete this challenge in combination with the other challenges issued by combining books on more than one list.