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2025-2026 Graduate Catalog

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2025-2026 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Reading Specialist, Certification (PK-12)

Certification Requirements

This program results in Pennsylvania Instructional I Teacher Certification.

Prerequisites

ED 580 Introduction to Inclusive Education (3 credits)
ED 601 Literacy Foundations (3 credits)

Professional Education Courses Tier 1

ED 563 Seminar in Reading (3 credits) 8 week fully online
ED 606 Strategic Instruction for Emergent and Content Literacy, K-12 (3 credits) 8 week fully online

Professional Education Courses Tier 2

ED 607 Strategic Instruction for Adolescent Readers and Writers, 7-12 (3 credits)
ED 608 Literature for Children and Youth (3 credits)
ED 622 ESL: Multilingual/Multicultural Literacies (3 credits)
ED 623 ESL: Multilingual/Multicultural Assessment (3 credits)

Professional Education Courses Tier 3

ED 699 Assessment, Analysis and Instruction in Reading and Writing (3 credits)

Culminating Course

ED 595 Literacy Seminar/Language and Literacy Project (LLP) (6 credits)

Exit Requirements for Certification Candidates

https://www.arcadia.edu/school-education/current-students/teacher-certification