ACE Weekly Update -- February 28th, 2018
What's Coming Up: Week of February 26th-30th
REMINDERS:
Midterm exams are coming up! Most students will take midterms between March 6th & March 9th. The sooner you start preparing, the less you'll need to stress. Now is the time to start making your study plan, and your coach can help!
Awesome Event of the Week
** FREE!! Food & plants available for purchase.**
Awesome Study Tool of the Week
Want to build your reading comprehension and vocabulary skills while reading articles about the topics that most interest you? Then NewsELA is the tool for you! This site allows you to news articles from libraries, national and international newspapers at whatever reading level is most appropriate for you.
First, create your free user account at www.newsela.com. Once you're logged in, just click on an article that interests you and then use the buttons on the right hand side (eg. 1240L, 870L, 540L) to adjust the "Lexile level" to fit you. Finally, use the quiz button to test what you learned.
What would you like to see on our website?
We're currently adding new sections to the Student Support website (www.dccaep.wixsite.com/support). We'd like you to tell us what you think we should include! Email us at aceprogram@dcc.edu to let us know. Want to build your reading comprehension and vocabulary skills while reading articles about the topics that most interest you?
Remember to sign up for Delgado Alerts to receive notification of unplanned campus closures! http://www.dcc.edu/student-services/e2campus/
Shout Outs are here! Has someone done something awesome this week? Want to share it with the world? You can! To submit a shout out for someone in the program, click HERE. Each week, we will post the Shout Outs that students and faculty submit in the ACE Weekly Update.