To encourage family involvement and develop school-to-home literacy connections, teachers must be able to provide families with tools and opportunities to become involved in their children's literacy development.

For this assignment, utilize the topic Resources and your own research to create a brochure to be used by families within the educational community. This resource should provide them with strategies and resources to enable them to become involved in their child’s literacy development at the elementary level.

Your brochure should include:

• Rationale regarding the significance of establishing school-to-home literacy connections.
• At least two research-based strategies that encourage or improve reading in the home.
• At least two research-based strategies that encourage or improve writing in the home.
• At least two resources enabling families to assist students with their reading or writing homework.

Support your brochure with 3-5 scholarly resources.

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite Technical Support Articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.

The student will research the topic of Communication and students with significant intellectual disabilities. The student will further research the development of a Communication Passport for students with significant disabilities. They will create a sample Communication Passport for a student with significant communication disabilities. 

Assignment Rubric

Rubric Competencies

Points

(a) Research was conducted on the topic of communication and students with significant intellectual disabilities an extensive discussion (i.e., 2-3 pages) with references was evident. 

10

(b) A descriptive background of the Case was provided in the Communication Passport. 

5

(c) The passport was organized, and it included a cover, table of contents, page numbers. etc.

5

(d) The passport addressed a minimum of 20 areas related to the student including the following areas:

1. About the child
2. How is Sight and Hearing
3. Family
4. Friends
5. Special Places and Things
6. How child communicates
7. Dislikes
8. Challenging Behaviors
9. School Projects
10. OTHER areas as appropriate for case.

20

(e) The passport provided extensive supporting visuals, pictures, etc..

8

(f) The passport was free of spelling or grammatical errors

2

Total Points5

50

The initiative and the referendum are at the heart of direct democracy in Arizona, discuss the initiative and referendum process in Arizona.

Include the following in 600 words:

1. Provide the basic definitions of an initiative and a referendum.
2. Explain how initiatives and referendums are created 
3. Compare and contrast an initiative and a referendum
4. Discuss the pros and cons of each 
5. Explain how initiatives and referendums support the idea of direct democracy as outlined in the Arizona Constitution

The purpose of this assignment is for you to investigate if the predictions from the documentary have come true and how does the population growth in the US, NC and Elizabeth City compare to the global population numbers.

Search the internet for the following questions and document your answers in the question bellow.

1. What is the current population of the World? The US? what about NC? What about Pasquotank County?
2. Use the numbers from question 1 to calculate what percentage of the world population that represents the US population? – (US population/Global Population x 100) What percentage of the world population is the population of NC? What about the population of Pasquotank County?
3. How does this numbers compare to the numbers described in the counties?

The field of education incorporates a significant number of learning theories. These theories were developed by social scientists and psychologists who study the manner in which humans learn. Educators continue to subscribe to the tenets of one or more of these theories as they work with children.

It is just as important to understand the theorists as it is to understand their theories.

 use the form attached..

Complete the Leading Educational Theorist Table, in which you will:

• Provide the name of the theory for each theorist.
• Provide a detailed summary of each theory.
• Provide a detailed summary of one way in which each theorist could impact education today.

provide citations for each summary