Certification Guideline 62

SUBJECT
Use of Reading Instruction Courses For 850 (Adult Basic Education) Certification

GUIDELINE DEFINITION
Reading Instruction credits are required for some options of the 850 Basic Education Certification. This guideline provides examples of course titles appropriate for this requirement. The list is not intended to be all-inclusive; it should serve as a guide to courses that stress instruction in reading rather than reading as the study of literature.

EXAMPLE
See list below

RATIONALE
District certification officers may refer to this list when determining the appropriateness of courses listed on college transcripts.

Link to Appropriate Academic Preparation for Certification for (850) Basic Education: http://systemattic.wtcsystem.edu/Certification/occexp/850-859BasicEd.doc

University/College Reading Courses That Are
Appropriate Toward The Reading Requirement
For The 850 Adult Basic Education Area

4-8 Reading
Admin Sup Reading Program
Advanced Diagnosis of Reading Difficulties
Advanced Remediation of Reading Difficulties
Analysis Reading Problems
Assessment/Corrective Reading
Common Reading Problems
Corrective Reading
Corrective Reading Clinical
Corrective Reading in the Secondary School
Curriculum & Instruction in Reading 7-12
Curriculum & Methods for Teaching Students With Exceptional Education Needs
Curriculum Development K-12
Developmental & Content Reading
Developmental Reading
Developmental Reading Content Area
Developmental Reading for Elementary School
Developmental Reading Secondary
Diagnosis of Reading Difficulties
Diagnostic & Remedial Reading
Diagnostic & Remedial Reading Problems
Diagnostic Case Study Reading
Directed Studies Strategies in Adult Reading
Education of Students with Learning Disabilities
Elementary School Reading Teaching Strategies
Elementary/Middle School Reading Teaching
Evaluating Reading Growth
Fieldwork – Secondary Reading 6-12
Foundations of Instruction in Reading
Foundations of Reading
Foundations Reading Development
Foundations Reading Instruction
Guiding & Directing the K-12 RLA Program
Identification & Evaluation of Reading Disabilities
Implementing a Reading Readiness Program
Improvement in Reading/Improving Reading
Individual Reading Program
Introductory Reading & Language
Investigations in the Teaching of Reading
Issues in Reading
Laboratory Experience in Elementary Reading
Leadership in Reading–Communication Skills
Linguistics & Reading
Literacy Assessment
Literature for Disadvantaged Readers
Literature/Language Young Child
Middle Level Reading
Models and Processes of Reading
Organization & Management of Reading Programs
Proficiency in Primary Reading
Practicum Reading
Practicum-Reading & Language Arts Elementary
Problems in Language Arts
Reading Curriculum Grades 1-9
Reader/Writer Workshop Secondary
Readers Writers Workshop
Reading & Language Arts in Elementary School
Reading and Language Arts I (Grades 1-9)
Reading and Language Arts II
Reading and Language Arts in Secondary School Content Areas
Reading Assessment Practicum
Reading Content Area
Reading Content Areas: Mid, Jr, Sr
Reading Disabilities 1
Reading Disabilities 2
Reading Elementary School
Reading For English Teachers
Reading in Secondary School
Reading in the Content Area
Reading in the Elementary School
Reading Learning Disabilities
Reading Methodology
Reading Problems in Elementary Curriculum
Reading Secondary School
Reading Skills – Mid Grade
Reading Strategies in the Content Areas
Reading Teacher: K-12
Reading/Study Skills in Secondary School
Recent Research in Reading
Remedial Reading/Clinic/Practicum
Remediation of Reading Disabilities
Secondary Reading Content Areas
Semester Research in Reading
Seminar in Reading/Programs
Seminar in Secondary School Reading
Software Technology/Reading Children’s Curriculum
Strategies in Adult Reading
Strategies in Reading Grades 5-12
Supervised Field Experience in K-12 Reading Programs
Supervising Literature Instruction
Supervision and Administration of Reading Programs
Supplementing Science Text in Language Arts
Teaching Beginning Reading
Teaching Elementary Reading
Teaching English as a Second Language
Teaching Literacy Processes in the Content Areas
Teaching of Reading
Teaching of Reading in the Elementary School
Teaching of Reading in the Secondary School
Teaching Reading: Elementary
Teaching Remedial Reading Practicum
Techniques in Improving Developmental Reading
Trends & Practices in Teaching Reading
Tutor Procedures in Reading
Whole Language

Content Reading/Study Strengths and Clinical Exploration of Content Reading are also OK.

Communication Arts and Language Arts courses may be appropriate based upon course descriptions.

Children’s/Adolescent Literature courses may be appropriate based upon course descriptions. Seminar on Literacy courses may be appropriate based on course descriptions.

Introduction to Literature, Literature Surveys, English/ American Literature courses are not OK.

Implemented: September 5, 2002

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