How to Ask for a Letter of Recommendation - College & Career Readiness
- PDF
- Google Apps™
What educators are saying
Also included in
Calling all high school AVID, Advisory, and college and career readiness teachers and counselors! Need help preparing your students for the college research, application, and admission process? Save yourself time with these engaging NO-PREP Google Slides lessons, activities, worksheets, projects, anPrice $98.40Original Price $123.00Save $24.60
Attention all high school educators counseling or teaching in an AVID, Advisory, life skills, or other college and career readiness programs! If you're feeling a little lost or stressed coming up with lessons and activities for your college and career readiness curriculum, I got you!Save yourself prPrice $219.00Original Price $273.75Save $54.75
Are you a high school teacher looking for resources to help your students with the college admissions and application process?Then you will love this bundle of no-prep Google Slides!This resource includes lessons to teach students how to get into college, how to choose a college, how to apply for coPrice $52.60Original Price $65.75Save $13.15
Description
Teach your students how to ask for a letter of recommendation for college or scholarship applications with this interactive Google Slides presentation. This complete lesson explains what a letter of recommendation is, what students need recommendations for, and nine tips for asking for a letter of recommendation. Also included: an extension activity asking students to write an email requesting a letter of recommendation and completing a datasheet/brag sheet to go with it (link to a sample email and brag sheet are included!).
⭐️ Click HERE for the Pear Deck version.
WHAT'S INCLUDED (a complete lesson that uses the 5E Learning Cycle!):
- Engage: Question to hook students.
- Explore: Question to activate prior knowledge and the chance to ask questions before getting into the lesson.
- Explain: In this lesson, students learn answers to the following questions:
*What is a letter of recommendation?
*Why would you need a letter of recommendation?
*How do you ask for a letter of recommendation? - Elaborate/Extend: The extension part of the lesson includes discussion questions and an editable assignment asking students to:
- Think of a scholarship or college you want to apply to that requires a letter of recommendation and a teacher you could ask for a recommendation.
- Write a practice email you could send to that teacher. See slide 20 for what to include.
- Make a one-to-two-page datasheet (aka “brag sheet”) that you could send with your email. See slide 21 for ideas (sample brag sheet included).
- Attach these both to this assignment. (Note: this is the only editable part of the presentation so that you can change the extension activity as you see fit; other ideas are included!).
- Evaluate: Reflection questions at the end of the presentation.
- Extra: Ideas for engaging students and extending the lesson further!
⭐️ This presentation can be used by teachers or counselors with distance learning, face-to-face instruction, OR a hybrid approach in any secondary class. You can present the lesson to the whole class or have students review it themselves in small groups! This is the perfect lesson for a high school AVID, advisory, CTE, life skills, or language arts class!
⭐️ This product is a COMPLETE LESSON in one place (similar to a Hyperdoc, which takes students through the learning cycle in one doc or slide deck using hyperlinks and other media). Perfect for using as a differentiated, self-paced, student-centered lesson, and/or whole-class presentation!
⭐️ The time it takes for the entire lesson will vary depending on how much time you allow for group discussions, follow-up class sharing, and extension activities. You could spend as little as 45 minutes on the presentation itself, if that's all the time you have, or one to three whole classes or more if you include some of the suggested extension activities. For ESL classes, you may need a little need more time.
Note: You can skip or delete any of the slides you don't want to use and add your own notes to any of the slides.
This lesson has it all:
-Explicit instruction
-21st-century skills
-Multi-modalities
-Hands-on learning
-Differentiation
-Scaffolding
-Higher levels of questioning
-Real-life connection
-Student choice
⭐️ You might also like this College Admission Bundle or this lesson on How to Apply to College.
IF YOU LIKE THIS PRODUCT AFTER PURCHASING IT, PLEASE GO TO YOUR TPT PURCHASES AND LEAVE ME A REVIEW AND EARN TPT CREDITS! AND BE SURE TO FOLLOW ME ON TPT FOR UPDATES ON NEW PRODUCTS!
CREDITS:
Grade Onederful, Kaitlynn Albanni, Mae Hates Mondays, Bricks and Border
⭐️ Get this FREE College and Career Readiness Curriculum Planning Guide on my website! Click HERE.
⭐️ Learn more about me on my website engagingtoempower.com and get some FREE resources!
⭐️ Get in touch by using this form HERE.
⭐️ Check out my other products on TPT and find out when I make new products (be sure to follow!): Jenn Liu: Engaging to Empower
Aloha,
Jenn
Copyright © Jenn Liu
Permission to use for single classroom use only.
Please purchase additional licenses if you plan to share this product with other teachers.
