This option is designed to meet the competency requirements for Washington State and SDA endorsements as a reading specialist. Additional state requirements are: take the secondary methods course, pass the WEST-E and complete a PPA.
Specialization Prerequisites: State teacher or SDA certification, a minimum of 18 months of verified satisfactory full-time experience in education, and a current course in reading methods (taken within the past six years).
| Specialization Requirements: |
|
| credits |
| |
| Basic Core |
|
| 13 |
EDUC 551
| Action Research
| 3
|
| EDUC 571 | Action Research Lab
| 4
|
| PSYC 521 | Psychology of Learning | 3 |
| SPED 550 | Understanding Research | 3 |
| |
| Literacy Instruction Core |
|
| 30 |
| |
| EDUC 475 | Teaching Reading Skills in the Content Area | 3 |
| EDUC 520 | Teaching Beginning Literacy | 3 |
| EDUC 533 | Literature-Based Reading Instruction | 3 |
| EDUC 535 | Reading Diagnosis and Remediation | 3 |
| EDUC 537 | Thematic Approaches to the Teaching of Reading | 3 |
| EDUC 542 | Issues and Trends in Literacy | 3 |
| EDUC 546 | Reading and Writing Assessment | 3 |
| ENGL 374 | Literature for Children | 3 |
| or |
| ENGL 375 | Literature for Young Adults | 3 |
| ENGL 529 | Writing Workshop: From Theory to Practice | 3 |
| or |
| ENGL 539 | Writing Workshop: Integrating Reading, Literature and Writing K-12 | 3 |
| or |
| ENGL 549 | Writing Workshop: Thinking and Writing with Computers | 3 |
| PSYC 531 | Psychology of Reading | 3 |
| |
| Approved Electives |
|
| 3 |
| *Electives must be chosen in consultation with the student's adviser. | ____ |
|
| Total | 46 |
