How does the assignment relate to your promotion goals?
The Reading Counts (RC) and Reading Fluency Benchmark Assessment (RFBA) is related to the promotion goals because EACH of these are worth .5 goal, so if you do not pass both you are missing 1 promotion goal which can make a big difference from you making it to 7th grade. For RC you have to read at least 6 books for 6th grade and 7 books for 7th grade that are in your reading level by the end of the year. I am in Yellow/Pink group. The Yellow group is the highest reading group, but some students suggested that we should be in the pink group because the books in our reading level are too long and too difficult. For the RFBA you have to improve on how fast you can read in a minute for each semester: Fall, Winter, and Spring. If you don't improve at all you don't get your .5 of your goals completed which won't be good to go on the EOTY LEL. If you read a lot of books you can go to places like Disneyland. I went and it was fantastic experience(go to ELA and the picture on the right is from Disneyland).
What are the steps you took to complete and do well on this assignment?
I first took my first Fall RFBA to see what my reading level is and I had a list of suggested books I found some that looked interesting like the Palace of Laughter and I read it. After that I filled out a Reading Ticket, which is a couple of questions you answer so that you can take a Reading Counts Test. If you get a 8/10 or above you passed if you get 7/10 or lower you have 2 more attempts on taking a test on that specific book. For the RFBA, I just try my fullest effort to read more words than last time.
This assignment demonstrates the following strengths...
This assignment demonstrates that I can read books in my reading level and that I can be tested on a book I read and pass. It also show that I can read at least 6 books by the end of the year.
I could have improved on this assignment by...
I could have improved by reading more than 50 books and passing all my books with a 10/10. I also can try to read more than a couple words from my previous RFBA. I also can try to be the top reader always.
How will you apply the skills you learned from this assignment when you are an adult or in other classes while you are still a student?
This assignment will help me in college and highschool when I have to read a book in like 1 or 2 days. This assignment will help get prepared for future fluency tests and other schools who do RC(probably not).