Reading M.Ed.
Total Semester Credit Hours = 36
The School of Education offers the Master of Education degree in Reading which includes preparation for candidates to earn the TEA Reading Specialist Certification. The School also offers the Literacy Coaching Certificate or Dyslexia Diagnosis and Intervention Certificate. The program addresses establishing, maintaining, and evaluating reading programs on a building level or system-wide basis.
Certification Preparation
The Reading Specialist (EC-12) Certification is available at the graduate level. This certification preparation program requires two years of classroom teaching experience, a master’s degree, the completion of all degree courses (see below for course sequence), and the required TExES examination.
The Literacy Coaching certificate-only is available at the graduate level. This certificate preparation program requires two years of classroom teaching experience, a master’s degree, and completion of the course sequence which includes taking READ 5309: Foundations of Literacy Coaching, READ 5310: Literacy Coaching Practicum, and READ 5311: Literacy Coaching as Collaborative Professional Development. Total Semester Credit Hours = 9
The Dyslexia Diagnosis and Intervention certificate-only is available at the graduate level. This certificate preparation program requires two years of classroom teaching experience, a master’s degree, and completion of the course sequence which includes taking READ 5306: Literacy Assessment Practicum, READ 5307: Literacy Instruction Practicum, READ 5312: Diagnostic Reading Assessment Practicum, and READ 5313: Dyslexia Reading Instruction & Intervention Practicum. Total Semester Credit Hours = 12
Applicants for the standard Reading Specialist Certificate and/or Literacy Coaching Certificate and/or Dyslexia Diagnosis and Intervention Certificate must meet the same requirements as those for the graduate degree programs in reading.
Admission Requirements
Option 1 - Texas Residents Only
To be admitted to the graduate program in reading education, the individual must:
- Hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
- Hold a Texas teacher certification (any field).
- Submit Texas teaching service record and any other documents required by Texas governing units.
- Submit official transcripts from all institutions attended.
- Applicant must either have a minimum 3.0 cumulative undergraduate GPA, or a minimum undergraduate GPA (last 60 hours) of 3.25, or submit GRE scores that equal or exceed 158 verbal and 162 quantitative.
- Complete admissions interview.
- Submit a written goal statement and initial philosophy of literacy statement.
- Have an appropriate GPA as set by Texas Administrative Code and other administrative units.
- Admission is determined based on GPA or, if necessary, satisfactory scores on the GRE, successful admissions interview.
Option 2 - Texas Non-Residents & International Students Only
- Hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
- Hold a teacher certification (any field)
- Submit teaching service record and any other documents required by Texas governing units.
- Submit official transcripts from all institutions attended.
- Applicant must either have a minimum 3.0 cumulative undergraduate GPA, or a minimum undergraduate GPA (last 60 hours) of 3.25, or submit GRE scores that equal or exceed 158 verbal and 162 quantitative.
- Complete admissions interview.
- Submit a written goal statement and initial philosophy of literacy statement.
- Have an appropriate GPA in degree plan as set by Texas Administrative Code and other administrative unites.
- Admission is determined based on GPA, or if necessary, satisfactory scores on the GRE, successful admissions interview.
Option 1 and Option 2
- Upon admission, students must:
- Sign and submit an acknowledgement of admission and departmental agreements.
- Pay the Graduate Program fee of $250 which will be added to the first tuition bill. This program fee is used for supervision during field work and is a one-time fee that will not be added to the tuition beyond the first semester.
NOTE: In accordance with Texas Administrative Code, all applicants must be fully admitted prior to taking any coursework in the area in which they are seeking certification. Therefore, no provisional admission is allowed.
Degree Requirements
Total Semester Credit Hours = 36
| READ 5333 | Foundations of Reading Instruction | |
| READ 5301 | Language, Literacy, and Culture | |
| READ 5302 | Issues in the of Teaching Literacy Using Children's and Adolescent Literature | |
| READ 5303 | New and Emerging Media Literacies | |
| READ 5304 | Teaching Writing in K12 Contexts | |
| READ 5305 | Teaching Disciplinary Literacy to Adolescents | |
| READ 5306 | Literacy Assessment Practicum | |
| READ 5307 | Literacy Instruction Practicum | |
| READ 5308 | Action Research for Literacy Educators | |
| READ 5309 | Foundations of Literacy Coaching | |
| | Strand 1 - Literacy Coaching Strand | |
| READ 5310 | Literacy Coaching Practicum | |
| READ 5311 | Literacy Coaching as Collaborative Professional Development | |
| | Strand 2 - Dyslexia Strand | |
| READ 5312 | Diagnostic Reading Assessments Practicum | |
| READ 5313 | Dyslexia Reading Instruction and Intervention Practicum | |