Requirements
- You must complete required coursework
- You must pass Praxis II
Required Courses
RLE511 Integration of Children's Multicultural Literature Into Reading & Language Arts Instruction for Early Childhood Classrooms
This course will provide candidates with an understanding of the variety and uses of literature for children in schools today. Emphasis will be on selecting written, non-print or electronic media as part of a balanced literacy program for emerging or developing readers and writers. Candidates will develop skills in weaving a wide-variety of literature genres and the visual/performing arts throughout science, math, social studies, and language arts instruction. This course requires eight hours of site based observation.
RLE512 Diagnosing Reading and Language Difficulties
This class will investigate the many types of purported causes of reading disability: neurological, psycho-emotional, and environmental. Through regular conversations, discussions, and consultations with classmates, professors, colleagues, paraprofessionals, etc., candidates will examine the nature of the reading process and how children come to be literate. Emphasis in the course will be on exploring motivation, issues of instruction and assessment for low-achieving readers; candidates will examine assessment and literacy plans designed to assist children experiencing on-going and/or profound difficulties in language arts, reading, and content area classrooms. The IRA standards are met through a series of scenario/simulation activities conducted in the university classroom and in which candidates are required to imagine themselves in the place of the classroom teachers. Candidates study instructional programs for reading and literacy development based upon the Ohio State Standards with benchmarks for language arts and reading. Technology is embedded into this course through candidates’ use of word processing programs and PowerPoint in their projects, activities, and reflections. This course requires eight hours of site based observation.
RLE506 Content Area Reading
This course is designed to provide pre-licensure candidates of all subject areas with the knowledge and skills to integrate the language processes, especially reading and writing, into their instruction. The goal of this course is to promote candidates’ understanding of the strategies that can be utilized to facilitate a learner’s content within a specific course and text. This course requires eight hours of site based observation.
RLE513 Phonics
An introduction is given on the use of the essentials of phonics in the context of reading, spelling, and linguistics. Candidates will learn the terminology of language structures and develop an understanding of language elements and skills (listening, speaking, writing, and reading). Candidates will view phonics as one kind of aid in identifying words. This course requires eight hours of site based observation.
RLE536 Introducing, Developing, and Promoting Literacy
This course is designed to promote candidate’s understanding of the development of literacy. The goal of the course is to provide the candidate with fundamental knowledge needed to know the development and background of the diverse learner, the reading and writing processes, instructional strategies, informal/authentic, diagnostic and intervention assessments, materials, and learning environments. This course requires twenty hours of site based hours that can be completed in your own classroom or building.
RLE595 Reading Endorsement Practicum
This is the culminating course for teacher education students who wish to earn licenses with an area of concentration in reading. Candidates will collaborate with reading specialists, parents, etc. in order to be responsive to the needs of students who are struggling with the language arts skills (listening, reading, writing, or spelling). This course provides a focused on-site experience which requires the candidate to implement an assessment/instructional program with specific children and to effectively document and present children’s progress. This course requires thirty hours of site based hours that can be completed in your own classroom or building.
Exam Required
Praxis II
To complete the endorsement and be highly qualified in the area of reading P-12, the candidate must take a Praxis II exam: Introduction to the Teaching of Reading (0200). The 100 multiple-choice questions cover knowledge about the teaching of reading that is common to all grade levels and content areas. The test includes content on reading as a language-thought process, text structure, instructional processes, affective aspects, and environmental/sociocultural factors.
