Improving My Writing Skills

This year, I've written and learned many new topics. I've improved in my writing and reading skills. Every year, writing becomes harder to understand and requires more focus. I have enjoyed a few writing assignments, such as the Wes Moore book project. It was fun and creative, I could draw, color, and do it my way. Although, I have trouble writing essays, I think I should work on that more. My grammar and punctuation also needs to improve. My writing has gotten some what better and my reading is good. I like fiction books that deal with science and fantasy. These are my favorite type of books. So far I've done some writing pieces that required to be written in different modes such as, argumentative me narrative. This is my midyear reflection

It took me a while to understand it. When I re read it on my own, it seemed to make sense, even though I still had trouble. It had many names and some vocabulary I didn't know. It stands out because I usually read books that are on my level, while this book looked like it was on a higher level. I've improved as a writer this year by filling the page in my writing. I've used to write one page and a half at the beginning of the year. Now I've written my work on two pages. My writing pieces usually come out short when I've typed it. Now it actually passes the page. I've also improved on my neatness and legible handwriting. At the beginning of the year it was a little messy and difficult to read. Now I can actually read what I write. For the Crucible Act 1 essay, I wrote it on loose leaf and rushed through it. When I finished I couldn't tell what some words were. This year. I've also improved on reading for a longer time. I used to hate reding, I thought it was boring and a waste of time. Now that I'm reading more,

In my writing, i could improve more on upgrading the vocabulary. I'm not using so much ninth grade words but lower. There's some words I don't remember the definition of or just don't know how to add them in my writing. I need to improve on my sentence structure. This is a main problem in my writing. I would usually write a long sentence that would have more than fifteen words. Run-one and sentence fragments make it hard to avoid. In my personal narrative essay, there was many mistakes and errors. I needed to explain what I'm writing about. Most of the examples aren't in order. I could also improve on my reading. I need to practice making connections with what I've read. I don't understand what to do sometimes. It's hard to think about it. In the Crucible, I didn't know how to make connections, I used to make stuff up. Sometimes the life of the characters in the story couldn't relate to my own life. I also need to improve on looking up the meanings of unknown words. For example, the book I chose for my book project was “City of Bones” by Cassandra Clare. I thought it was going to be easy, but it wasn't. There were a few scenes that didn't make sense until I re read them. There were words on many pages that I didn't know what they meant, but just skipped over them. Sometimes they dealt with the story that made it a little confusing. These are the skills, I need to improve