In the future I will continue to work and improve on my quotes  so I can really give the reader a good main idea about the text I wrote. I will also continue to work on my transitions, craft, and conventions which all just need a little bit of tweaking to get better grades. By practicing all those things going on with my writing and reading I know I can raise all of those grades up to 3s, and 4s, so I can get in to a great college, such as Madison. I will also pra ctice my text evidence so that when people read my piecied of writting and reading they understand.

  My biggest take away moment/aha moment is when I advanced my 2s and 2.5s to 3s and 4s in both subjects making them very good grades. I also had a very big takeaway moment when I got my introduction and conclusion in my blogs nailed, they where both 4s. An aha moment would be when I realized my transitions where not really going in smoothly, they were rough, but then I problem solved and turned my transitions very smooth so that it was easy to read my writing/reading pieces.

What I will continue to work on in the future is checking over the rubric before I turn in an assessment, because if I really checked over the rubric and made sure I had all the components I would be able to raise my grade even higher. I also will continue to work on my conventions. I also will continue to work on paying really close attention to detail when writing an essay or paper. I will continue to put a lot of effort into my papers so I can really show the details. 

My biggest take away/ aha moment is when I started to get good grades like 3, 3.5, and 4’s. Another aha moment is when I counted how many books I read over the school year and it was like 30-35 books throughout the whole school year. It really surprised me by realizing how much I have learned over the school year. 

What I will improve on for the future is knowing when are where to capitalize words and not to overuse commas and quotations that could cause me to get a lower grade. I will improve on for reading is to jot down an important part and remember that part to help me on reading assessments and when I need to retell the story or state what happens in the book.

My take away from this year is that I started off with lower grades and I focused more and when I did that I knew what I was doing in projects and assignments which raises my grades. For example in the beginning of the school year with my deep study of character assessment I got a 1.5 and a 1 but comparing to my Informational Writing project where I got 5 3’s and 2 2’s is a big improvement. My take away from reading is that If I read at home and practice and read on a normal basis and to tell what the main idea of the story is, that I will get a way better understanding of the book or the story that is being told. 

As a reader and writer I will continue to be a strong reader and write based off of the rubric, I have improved my grades extraordinarily, I still need to work on multiple things and I also need to improve my skill of getting work in on time. During reading I always want to stick to my personal reading plan of reading 120 minutes a week, but sometimes I read that amount once a day when I am supposed to be sleeping.

One of my “Take Away” or “Ah-ha” moments are when I got my grades for my Teen Activist Blog, I realized that when I follow the rubric I get better grade, and when I turn my work in on time I get more time to play infection with my friends at recess. I realized that if I don’t think that much about it I do it quicker when not thinking about, “How Hard It Is.” But instead thinking, “Oh, I Can Do This!”:p

I will continue to really work hard at both of these skills. I think in reading, I could work on not just reading the book but also to stop and think about what I am reading. I could maybe stop every 15 pages. If there is not something to stop and think about, then I will go every 20 pages. Also I want to write a written response every time I am done reading a section of the book. I could write about what was confusing and what was hard not to gasp out loud and say WHAT!. In writing I could work on writing personal narratives. I could work on writing about a seed in my life and not a whole watermelon. I could focus on maybe a sad part of my life or maybe a really exciting part of my life. On the first narrative that I wrote in 6th grade was about a really big part of my life. I could have focused on something not so big but still important. 

My take away or my ah ha moment in 6th grade reading was when I was reading about Malala Yousafzai. I in the middle of writing a teen activist blog. I had been researching her for a few days I had thought “ I want to be just like her.” I thought that she was so brave. I also wanted to make a difference in the world. So that was my big Ah Ha moment in 6th grade reading. My Ah Ha moment in writing was when I got my first personal narrative back. I had done a watermelon story and not a seed story. I had written about a very important time in my life but it could have been split into 2 different stories. Now I have fixed it by only writing little seed stories. 

     
      In the future, I will continue to work on turning things in on time, as I have found that to be a weakness that I have. I will also work very hard towards ensuring that I get to where I am going on time, and that  I do not zone out as much, because then I wind up missing the lesson.

I will work on writing a lot. I need to get my stamina up and I also want to get my writing better in general. I want to get my writing stamina up so I can write longer and faster. I want to work on that because I need to write more so I can get my work done faster. I also want to work on writing in general because I want to make my writing better and stronger. I also want to work on understanding my books more. I want to work on this because it is very important to me that I can understand books and then put it down on paper. 

The ah-ha moment that I had this year was when I got a 3.5 and I realized I was doing it right. That was a ah-ha moment because I finally got something correct and did it good. This was very big for me because I was really happy and realized a lot about writing. I was not as difficult as I thought it is and that it is very fun when you get a good grade and get what you are doing. It was a very big ah-ha moment for me.

I know a lot of stuff I can work on for readers and writers workshop. For readers workshop I need to work on being able to read even longer because I still have to take breaks otherwise I get to distracted, I need to learn how to take risks with words to expand my horizons, and I need to learn how to lead in and out of quotes better.. For writers workshop I need to improve on my punctuation and how I can use more punctuation than just commas, I need to work on writing my central ideas because I tend to confuse those with main ideas or themes, and I will work on my transitions because I tend to use the same ones over and over again.

I have a lot of takeaways from this year for readers and writers workshop. For reader’s workshop my biggest takeaway is that when I really push my limits I find that the next time I try to push my limits its easier, another takeaway is that I now know how to lead in an out of quotes even though that skill still needs some improvements, and I had a takeaway that when I read I am not able to take a characters dialogue and find the meaning for the character saying it. For writers workshop my biggest takeaway is that instead of using a ton of words I can use a couple strong words to describe a moment, I also learned how to really set a scene for a character, and I also how important it is to describe something instead of just stating that fact or moments.

As my journey continued I struggled to remember to revise the rubric while taking the assessment.

I really want to do that because I definitely want to start to do that more often as I take the assessments. I feel like that would really help my grade out. For reading I definitely want to start using the rubric more often during reading assessments as well as, trying to find better book suggestions for me.

As my writing journey in sixth grade continued I realized that I really work better when I am focused and alone in my own spot and not really distracted by peers. As for reading, my biggest takeaway is actually reading. I never really liked to read and would never really do it, but this year alone I've read 39  chapter books from the beginning of the year until now.

Something that I will continue to work on in the future is my writing stamina. This year, I was never really able to write for long periods of time without getting distracted. I think I will need to concentrate a lot more when I'm writing and making sure that I'm writing quality work while I write.

One think that I will take away from this year is how much of an awesome learning environment it is to learn in Mrs. Reuter's class. I really learned a lot from her and I am gonna take away that she really helped me. I could always go to her for questions if I had them or to get expert advice on how to further improve my writing piece.