What are some major characteristics of the Reading Specialist Program?
• NCATE-approved • Preparation for two State certifications: Teacher of Literacy, Birth-6, and Teacher of Literacy, 5-12. • Preparation to work with children, adolescents and adults with reading and writing difficulties. • Individualized and small group focus – students are prepared to teach reading and writing to struggling readers both individually and in small groups. This prepares them to provide literacy instruction in pull-out programs, inclusion classrooms and regular classrooms. • Balanced literacy focus – integration of rigorous, evidence-based phonics training with authentic literacy encompassing word recognition, reading comprehension, fluency, vocabulary development, spelling, and expressive writing. • Assessment and intervention focus – students learn to deploy a battery of classroom-based and standardized assessment measures to identify strengths and weaknesses of individual students and groups, and then develop an intervention plan based on the assessment findings. • Pre
