New Years Resolution Worksheets

About this resource

The new year is the one week when a child is glad to be asked, "What do you want to do this year?" These New Years resolution worksheets for grades 1 to 5 start there. A child draws the goal, finishes "This year I want to ...", breaks it into three steps, names who can help, looks back at what they can do now that they could not do before, and colors a box each time they work on it. Four layouts take a child from one picture and three lines to a full eight-line draft.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (25 pages)

• 14 student pages: 12 goal prompts, 1 word page ("goal", "plan", "step", "try", "help" and 3 more words, printed big) and 1 goal tracker
• I Want To: 3 pages, a question, a picture box to draw in, and 3 lines with "This year I want to" and "because" printed
• My Plan: 3 pages (school, home, friends), each with My goal, Step 1, Step 2, Step 3 and Who can help me?
• Then and Now: 3 pages (reading, math, at home), a picture box and lines for "I used to" and "Now I can"
• Write It: 3 pages, 8 lines with four starters printed on each page
• Goal Tracker: 1 page with a goal line and 10 boxes to color, each with a line for what the child did
• 9 pages with sentence starters already printed; the word page, the tracker and the 3 My Plan pages are left for the child's own words
• 1 teacher log (one row for each of the 12 prompts), 1 class grid (15 students), 1 filled example (an invented student)
• 1 family note with three ways to help at home, 1 phrase bank of 15 observable-language starters
• 1 binder cover and 6 divider tabs with a spine label to cut out
• Start Here and terms of use

Built For The Child Holding The Page

A big "My name" line, one short instruction with a small pencil icon, the question in large rounded letters, and lines with real spacing. Nothing on a student page is written for an adult, there is no score, and no student page needs scissors or glue. A goal here is whatever the child picks, so there is no wrong answer.

Type In, Or Print

The name and date lines, every ruled line, the log, class grid and family note are type-in fields in any PDF reader, so you can type a starter or a word onto a line before you print. The picture boxes and the tracker boxes are left for drawing and coloring. Every page prints clean in black and white. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

Teachers in grades 1 to 5, self-contained and resource rooms, writing centers, small groups, tutors and families who want a January goal-setting activity a child can start on their own. How big the goal is, how many steps and who helps is your call.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

Goal-setting writing pages with the record-keeping around them. There is no scoring and no rubric, and it is not a timed test, a screener or a clinical tool. It makes no claim about any student's age or rate of progress, and there is no IEP goal language or eligibility wording anywhere in the file.