Ensuring you get the “A” ACE Ensuring you get the “A”

What is ACE. A strategy for thinking and responding to questions What is ACE? A strategy for thinking and responding to questions. How do we do it? ANSWERING questions completely: by restating the question in the answer CITE evidence directly from the text EXPAND on your answer with a: Prediction Personal connection Drawing a conclusion Making a comparison Analyzing using cause and effect

ACE A Results Score # of Students Emerging/No Proficient/Yes

Examples and Non-Examples Why are careers as video game designers expected to grow? First sentence Yes/No Why?

Citing evidence to support your answer… What does it mean to cite evidence? Locate evidence in the text that supports the key words in the question. Extract (pull out) the evidence and use it to support your answer. Why is it important to cite evidence?

We do: Why are careers in game design expected to grow? How Becoming a Video Game Designer Works "Rock Band," "Wii Fit" and "Madden Football" are all popular video games that people line up to buy upon their release. Designing these video games requires creativity and imagination. With the continuing demand for more action-packed games, careers as video game designers are expected to grow. For those who not only enjoy playing video games, making video games requires imagination. Video game designers devote themselves to exploring every aspect of a game and to mastering its outcome. A successful video game designer needs a powerful imagination in order to construct the alternative world of the game in his mind before creating it in cyberspace. Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a video game designer? Video game designers need a variety of skills due to the challenging career. The skills largely involve training in computer graphics, animation and software design. Often, the prospective game designer will obtain such training at credentialed programs at technical schools. I do: Why is it important for video game designers to have a good imagination? We do: Why are careers in game design expected to grow?

Citing (ACE) First… Then… (use your anchor chart) Find text evidence that supports your answer Popular games people line up to buy Create action-packed games Construct alterative worlds in their head before making them Then… (use your anchor chart) Quote: direct words from text The text states that, “. . . . .” The author writes that, “. . . . .” Paraphrase: your summary of text in your own words In the text . . . . . (author name). I saw that . . . . (author name). The text talks about . . . (author name).

ACE ASSIGNMENT- I Do Passage to read… “ Question to answer- Why is it important for video game designers to have a good imagination? A C E THIS WAS DEVELOPED BY A SPECIAL ED TEAM BECAUSE THEY WANTED THEIR STUDENTS TO HAVE JUST A QUICK PARAGRAPH TO READ AND ONE QUESTION TO ANSWER. THEY ALSO SAID THEIR STUDENTS NEEDED THE STRUCTURE THAT THIS TEMPLATE GAVE THEM. I’VE HAD HS TEACHERS WHO LIKE IT ALSO AND SAID THEIR STUDENTS NEEDED IT AT FIRST ALSO.

Why are careers in game design expected to grow? ACE- We Do Passage to read… Question to answer- Why are careers in game design expected to grow? A- C E THIS WAS DEVELOPED BY A SPECIAL ED TEAM BECAUSE THEY WANTED THEIR STUDENTS TO HAVE JUST A QUICK PARAGRAPH TO READ AND ONE QUESTION TO ANSWER. THEY ALSO SAID THEIR STUDENTS NEEDED THE STRUCTURE THAT THIS TEMPLATE GAVE THEM. I’VE HAD HS TEACHERS WHO LIKE IT ALSO AND SAID THEIR STUDENTS NEEDED IT AT FIRST ALSO.

Question to answer on Socrative: How do you become a game designer? ACE ASSIGNMENT – YOU DO Passage to read… Question to answer on Socrative: How do you become a game designer? A C E THIS WAS DEVELOPED BY A SPECIAL ED TEAM BECAUSE THEY WANTED THEIR STUDENTS TO HAVE JUST A QUICK PARAGRAPH TO READ AND ONE QUESTION TO ANSWER. THEY ALSO SAID THEIR STUDENTS NEEDED THE STRUCTURE THAT THIS TEMPLATE GAVE THEM. I’VE HAD HS TEACHERS WHO LIKE IT ALSO AND SAID THEIR STUDENTS NEEDED IT AT FIRST ALSO.