Reading Specialist, MEd

Student Learning Outcomes

• Candidates demonstrate knowledge of and apply major theoretical, conceptual, historical, and culturally and linguistically relevant evidence-based foundations of literacy (including components of reading, writing development, writing processes and foundational skills) and language (including language acquisition, structure of language, conventions of standard English, vocabulary acquisition and use, speaking, listening, viewing, visually representing) along with an understanding of how to integrate the new literacies and digital learning to influence literacy development across the grades and in the academic disciplines to effectively teach diverse learners.
• Candidates use foundational knowledge to select, design, critique, adapt, evaluate, and implement evidence-based, literacy curricula, instructional strategies, supplemental and intervention approaches, and programs (components of a comprehensive, aligned, and integrated literacy curriculum) that are responsive to social, cultural, cognitive, and linguistic diversity, to meet the needs of all learners in various settings, especially those who experience difficulty with literacy.
• Candidates select, utilize, analyze, and interpret a variety of valid, reliable, fair, and appropriate assessments aligned with current research to screen, diagnose, and to comprehensively monitor and measure the literacy achievement of diverse learners across multiple field-based experiences to implement data-driven and evidence-based literacy instruction and interventions.
• Candidates engage in multiple field-based experiences in which they work with individual and small groups of students, and coach peers and experienced colleagues at various grade levels, as they assess students’ literacy achievement, develop literacy intervention plans, implement instructional practices, create supportive literacy learning environments, and assess impact on student learning through data- and evidence-based instructional strategies designed to meet the developmental needs of diverse learners.

Curriculum Requirements

Intro

• READ 7000 - Foundations of Structured Literacy Credit Hours: 3

Core

• READ 7010 - Literacy Assessment and Instruction Credit Hours: 3
• READ 7020 - Designing Research-Based Curriculum for Literacy Environments Credit Hours: 3
• READ 7030 - The Reading Brain: Strategies for Diverse Learners Credit Hours: 3
• READ 7040 - Fundamentals of Phonics Credit Hours: 3

Required Advanced

Related Electives

• READ 7158 - Literacy Leadership Credit Hours: 3
• READ 7168 - Disciplinary Literacy Credit Hours: 3
• READ 7300 - Research in the Science of Reading Credit Hours: 3
• READ 7290 - Assistive Technology in Literacy Instruction Credit Hours: 3
• READ 7260 - The Reading Brain and Evidence-Based Instruction Credit Hours: 3
• READ 7250 - Psychology of Reading Credit Hours: 3

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• READ 7050 - Introduction to Dyslexia and Dyslexia Intervention Credit Hours: 3
• SPED 7050 - Introduction to Dyslexia and Dyslexia Instruction Credit Hours: 3

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• SPED 7060 - Assistive Technology in Literacy Instruction Credit Hours: 1
• SPED 7063 - Written and Visual Expression for Exceptional Readers Credit Hours: 1
• SPED 7065 - Evidence-Based Instructional Design for Exceptional Readers Credit Hours: 1

Total Number of Credits to Complete the Program: 30