Why UW-Stevens Point?
- Opportunities to examine and enrich your personal and professional goals
- Unique opportunities to collaborate as literacy professional
- Validation of your work as reading professionals
- Interactive small classes
- Online course offerings
What will I be able to do with a Reading Teacher (316) Certification?
- Strengthen content literacy in the classroom
- Serve as a Title I reading teacher
- Collaborate with teachers
- Advocate for reading needs of all students
- Provide reading resources for students, parents, colleagues, and community
Required Courses
If you have taken reading courses such as Communication Arts, Adolescent or Children’s Literature you may already have some courses needed to begin the reading certification program.
One course is required at both elementary and secondary levels:
Elementary
- Education 309/509, Methods/Materials for Teaching Reading II (3 cr.)
- Education 310 Materials and Methods for Teaching Lang. Arts (3 cr.)
Secondary
- Education 386/586, Reading in the Secondary School (3 cr.)
- English 381/581, Reading for the Teacher of English (3 cr.)
One course is required from the following selection:
- Education 383/583, Tests & Measurements (3 cr.)
- English 275, Children's Literature (3 cr.)
- English 375/575, Literature for Adolescents (3 cr.)
- Education 706 (3 cr.)
- Education 327/527 (Teaching Rdg to G&T) (3 cr.)
All of the following courses are required
Fall
Education 740, Reading Teacher Portfolio (1 credit Concurrent with 741)
Education 741, Improvement in the Teaching of Reading (3 credits) (Prereq: ED 308/508 or ED 309/509)
Spring
Education 746, Diagnosis & Evaluation of Reading Abilities (3 credits)
Summer
Education 747, Remedial Reading (3 credits)
Education 748, Remedial Reading Practicum (3 credits)
NOTE: Courses for Area C for the 316 license must be earned within a seven-year period and taken in the above sequence. The time period starts with the beginning of the term in which the first course approved for your Program of Study was taken.
Two years of successful regular classroom teaching experience.
How long will it take to acquire certification?
It is possible to complete the 316 in one year beginning in summer with credits needed in Areas A or B, and then sequentially taking courses in Area C through the following summer.
Can I acquire my master's degree as well as certification?
Graduate-level reading certification courses for the 316 licenses may be incorporated into the Master of Science in Education - General Degree.
316 Reading Teacher Information Sheet (printable .pdf)
316 Program Plan
Foundations of Reading Test for Wisconsin
Required by state law for licensure: Passing score of 240 or higher on the Foundations of Reading Test for Wisconsin. For more information on score requirements, test preparation and registration, please see our website.
Note for FoRT: Educators who hold a lifetime license (previously called Professional Educator license)
at the time they apply for their new add-on license do not need to pass FoRT in order to
add a license in one of the areas listed in statute (Elementary-Middle Childhood-Early Adolescence, Reading Teacher and all areas of Special Education). Those pursuing a license as a Reading Specialist and hold a lifetime administrative license at the time they apply for their new add-on license do not need to pass FoRT in order to add the Reading Specialist license.
The
United States Department of Education requires institutions that
provide distance education to disclose information for programs leading
to professional certification or licensure about whether each program
meets state educational requirements for initial licensure or
certification. Following is this disclosure information for this
program:
- The requirements of this program meet Certification/Licensure in the following states: Wisconsin
- The requirements of this program do not meet Certification/Licensure in the following states: Not applicable
- The requirements of this program have not been determined if they meet Certification/Licensure in the following states: Alabama,
Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware,
Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North
Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South
Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia,
Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming; District of Columbia; American
Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands
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