Reading Specialist Licensure (PK-12) Certificate
The online Reading and Literacy Instruction program prepares program candidates to use scientific, research-based practices in curriculum, instruction and assessment for general and specialized education across grades PreK-12. The program emphasizes a comprehensive approach to learning that integrates cognitive, neuroscientific, and educational research with a focus on the Science of Reading. Program candidates learn a structured literacy approach to teaching reading, writing, and spelling through direct, explicit, systematic, cumulative, diagnostic, and multi-modal practices. Online instructor-led learning experiences include frequent collaboration, guided inquiry and deliberate practice.
The Reading and Literacy Instruction Program provides:
- A deep preparation in the structures of language, oral language, phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling, syntax, vocabulary, morphology, text comprehension, written expression, and fluency
- Experiences in developing skills to serve in leadership, coaching, and intervention roles
- The acquisition of knowledge of assessments, curricula, and instructional planning for students with specific learning disabilities, including dyslexia, related disorders of reading and written language, and for second language learners
- The development of expert level ability to analyze and synthesize educational research to determine what research is reliable and valid
- Deliberate practice in all courses of study that respects universal design for learning inclusive practices, cultural and linguistic diversity, and backward design
- Orton-Gillingham training
Requirements for the Reading Specialist Licensure (PK-12) Certificate are as follows:
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| RDG 525 | Multimodal Structured Approach to Teaching Language and Literacy | 3 |
| RDG 530 | Reading Research | 3 |
| RDG 534 | Reading and Writing Assessment | 3 |
| RDG 536 | Literacy and the Change Process District: School Action Planning | 3 |
| RDG 543 | Approaches and Practices for Writing Instruction and Assessment | 3 |
| RDG 547 | Structures of Language and Lit Part 1: Foundations for Early Lit Acquis | 3 |
| RDG 548 | Structures of Language and Lit Part 2: Consolidation of Lit Acquisition | 3 |
| RDG 554 | Pre-Practicum | 0 |
| RDG 590 | Reading Practicum | 4 |
| Total Credits Required | 25 | |