End-of-Year Reflection – Middle School Writing Prompts
- Grades
- Grades 5–8, Middle School
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- Print ready
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- Holiday & Seasonal, ELA, Seasons, Summer, Writing, Holidays, End Of Year
- Topic
- end of year, reflection
- Resource types
- Writing Prompts, Worksheets & Printables
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- Print ready
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What's inside this resource
Self-assessment and reflection are important skills for growth mindset and personal development. Here's an age-appropriate way for your middle grades students (grades 5-8) to reflect on their school year. They have seen and done so much through the ten months of a school year, and it is important to take a little bit of time to validate and acknowledge their accomplishments and development! This is a perfect activity for the last week of school, and it also makes a great keepsake!
Here is a ready-to-print double-sided reflection that gets students thinking about
- Favourite memories: What is one of your favourite memories from this school year?
- New friends: Which student in your class became a new friend this year and why?
- Improved skills; What was one skill you got better at this year? What topic did you enjoy studying?
- What they will miss: What will you miss about your class this year (the teacher, the room, certain people, an activity)?
- What they are looking forward to: What are you looking forward to for next year?
- EMOJIS!: If you had to describe your year in 5 emojis, which ones would you choose? Please sketch and label each one.
Grades to Use With:
This assignment is perfect for students in the middle grades who are able to write short paragraphs with relative ease. It could also work for high school special education students as well.
Standards:
CCSSCCRA.W.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Reflect in writing on a specific positive memory from the school year.
Identify and describe a new friendship or a skill developed over the year.
Articulate what they will miss about the current class and what they are looking forward to next year.
Represent a reflection non-verbally by choosing and labeling emojis that summarize the year.
Teaching tips
Use this near the last week of school, since the prompts — favorite memories, what you'll miss, what's next — are written for a year-end moment rather than a mid-year check-in.
Treat the five blank lines under each prompt as a rough length guide, but allow shorter or longer answers depending on the student.
Save the emoji-sketch prompt for last, as printed, since it functions as a lighter closing activity after five written-response prompts.
Skills covered
Personal reflective writing — students respond in writing to five prompts about memories, growth, and relationships from the school year.
Self-assessment — students identify a specific skill they improved and connect it to what they enjoyed studying.
Non-verbal reflection — students translate their overall impression of the year into five sketched and labeled emojis.
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Questions teachers ask about this resource
Does the emoji prompt replace one of the written questions, or come in addition to them?
It's an additional sixth prompt — students complete all five written reflection questions first, then close the sheet by sketching and labeling five emojis that summarize their year.
How much writing space does each prompt provide?
Five blank lines follow each of the five written prompts, giving students room to write a short paragraph rather than a single sentence.
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