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2024 - 2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024 - 2025 Graduate Catalog

Post-Professional Certificate - Reading Specialist


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This is an online certificate program.  Applicants should have a master’s degree in education.

The post-professional certificate - Reading Specialist is designed to provide specific background, education and tools to educators teaching K-12 learners reading below grade level. The certificate also provides specific background, education and tools for coaching teachers in evidence-supported literacy practices.

Program of Study - Post-Professional Certificate - Reading Specialist


Summer 1

CRIN R21 Diverse Literature for Children (3)  

Fall 1

CRIN R08 Literacy Instruction for Diverse Learners (3)  

CRIN R13 The Teaching of Writing (3)  

Spring 1

CRIN R15 Diagnosis and Correction of Reading Difficulties (3)  

CRIN R22 Word Knowledge: Phonics, Spelling and Vocabulary (3)  

Summer 2

CRIN R31 Literacy Leadership (3)  

CRIN R85 Literacy Coaching and Internship (3)  

Total Credit Hours: 21

Students must also pass the Praxis for Reading Specialist in order to complete the program.