Reading Certificate Added Authorization

Offered by: College of Education and Integrative Studies, Education Department

The Reading Certificate Added Authorization program, approved by the California commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC) offers Multiple, Single Subject, and Education Specialist credentialed teachers advanced studies in reading. Candidates receive experience and knowledge in reading and literacy research, practice, and assessment through in-class activities, required readings, course assignments, and supervised fieldwork. Courses in this program can count as electives in the Curriculum and Instruction, Heritage Languages, and Special Education subplans/options for the Master of Arts in Education degree.

http://www.csupomona.edu/~cso/programs.shtml

Program Admission Minimum Requirements

1. Basic or initial teaching credential - Multiple or Single Subject or Education Specialist credential)
2. Three years of documented full-time teaching experience

Required Core Courses: 13 units

• GED 520 Diagnosis, Assessment and Evaluation of Literacy (4)  
• GED 522/522A Instructional Strategies for Language and Literacy Field Sites (2/2)  (lecture component)
• GED 528 Sociolinguistic and Multicultural Aspects of Language and Literacy Acquisition (4)  
• GED 594/594A Analysis, Development of Language and Literacy Curricula (3/1)  (lecture component)