Department: Reading

Code Name Description
READ2100 Advanced Reading Skills This course teaches students to increase their reading speed and comprehension by overcoming three bad reading habits: regression, sub-vocalization, and poor eye fixations. Most students at least double their reading speed. Course may be taken only o...
READ2100SB Advanced Reading Skills SB This course teaches students to increase their reading speed and comprehension by overcoming three bad reading habits: regression, sub-vocalization, and poor eye fixations. Most students at least double their reading speed. Course may be taken only o...
READ3330 Introduction to Reading A survey of the developmental and corrective instructional strategies utilized in reading programs, K-12. Foundations of emergent literacy, instructional frames for literacy instruction, and both teaching and learning strategies are introduced. Obs...
READ4010 English Language Arts and Reading 4-8Seminar This required course is designed to help students prepare for the Texas Examination of Educator Standards (TExES). The course will focus on content and sample questions from state authorized preparation manuals distributed by the Educational Testing...
READ4013 Science of Teaching Reading Seminar This required course is designed to help students prepare for the Texas Examination of Educator Standards (TExES). The course will focus on the Science of Teaching Reading. Students must score a minimum of 85% on the TExES pretest at the end of the c...
READ4302 Scaffolding Literacy Instruction READ 4302/5302 is a three-hour course for teacher candidates seeking EC-6 teacher certification. This is a pedagogy course designed to provide teacher candidates instruction in Guided Reading for elementary students. Students will explore the underst...
READ4313 Science of Teaching Reading The Science of Teaching Reading is a three-hour course for teacher candidates seeking EC-6 and 4-8 ELAR certification. The candidates will be demonstrating skill in all areas of the science of teaching reading (assessment, oral language, phonics, com...
READ4330 Recognizing and Instructing StrugglingReaders This course provides teacher candidates with the resources needed to determine specific reading problems and know how to instruct students to remediate in the reading problems. Candidates are instructed in current diagnostic tools used in the public...
READ4331 Reading in the Content Area The major goal of the course is identifying and gaining an understanding about strategies and skills required to read successfully in various content areas.
READ4333 Clinical for Diagnosing and CorrectingReading Difficulties This is a course that gives teacher candidates the opportunity to work with public school students who have reading difficulties. The teacher candidate will, with the diagnostic tools learned in READ 4330 Recognizing and Instructing Struggling Reader...
READ4334 Studies in the Diagnosis and ClinicalCorrection of Reading Difficulties An intensive study of the scientific-based diagnostic and prescriptive techniques, utilizing best practices to identify specific strategies for enhancing the acquisition of reading skills. Directed field experience in diagnosing and correcting target...
READ4335 Pedagogy of Reading I (Phonics) This course is designed to instruct teacher candidates in phonics, its essential tie to learning how to read, the elements of phonics, how to use phonics to teach reading, and its relationship to fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.
READ4336 Pedagogy of Reading II (Comprehension) This course is designed to instruct teacher candidates in the teaching of reading comprehension.
READ4337 Pedagogy of Reading III (Literature andVisual Representation This course will survey children's and young people's literature as well as visual representations of reading material in various media. The teacher candidate will be required to read and create a database of literature for his/her level of certific...
READ4338 Pedagogy of Language Arts This course explores the effective teaching of Language Arts using an integrated approach of speaking, writing, listening, and reading. The course emphasizes learning to evaluate student compositions using stated criteria and incorporating these asse...
READ4340 Adolescent Reading and WritingInstruction This course will provide teacher candidates pursuing certification in 4-8 ELAR and 7-12 ELAR theory, strategies, practice, and resources for instructing adolescents in reading and language arts. In particular, the course will provide strategies for b...
READ5010 English, Language Arts, and Reading 4-8Seminar This required course is designed to help students prepare for the Texas Examination of Educator Standards (TExES). The course will focus on content and sample questions from state authorized preparation manuals distributed by the Educational Testing...
READ5011 Reading Specialist Seminar Educator Standard (TExES). The course will focus on content and sample questions from state authorized preparation manuals distributed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Information will also be gleaned from the Reading Specialists state publi...
READ5013 Science of Teaching Reading Seminar This required course is designed to help students prepare for the Texas Examination of Educator Standards (TExES). The course will focus on the Science of Teaching Reading. Students must score a minimum of 85% on the TExES pretest at the end of the c...
READ5302 Scaffolding Literacy Instruction This is a three-hour course for teacher candidates seeking EC-6 teacher certification. This is a pedagogy course designed to provide teacher candidates instruction in Guided Reading for elementary students. Students will explore the understanding of,...
READ5312 Reading Specialist Practicum This practicum is designed to provide field experiences as a Reading Specialist in K-12 school settings. The intern is assigned to an appropriate site supervisor in an approved elementary or secondary school. The field experience is under the supervi...
READ5313 Science of Teaching Reading The Science of Teaching Reading is a three-hour course for teacher candidates seeking EC-6 and 4-8 ELAR certification. The candidates will be demonstrating skill in all areas of the science of teaching reading (assessment, oral language, phonics, com...
READ5314 Reading Curriculum InstructionAssessment Reading Curriculum Instruction Assessment investigates scientific-based diagnostic and prescriptive techniques, utilizing best practices, to identify specific strategies for enhancing the acquisition of reading skills. This course is designed to upg...
READ5315 Reading Strategies for the EmergentLearner EC-6 Reading Strategies for the Emergent Learner EC-6 focuses on exploring theories and practices creating optimal instructional opportunities in the classroom to help emergent readers develop confidence and independent reading comprehension strategies wi...
READ5316 Reading Strategies for the AdvancedLearner 7-12 Reading Strategies for the Advanced Learner 7-12 focuses on providing best learning environments for comprehension and interpretation of texts across genres and developing student strategies for independent engagement with these texts.
READ5321 Linguistics for Reading & ESL This course explores the linguistic basis for teaching reading and ESL (English as a second language). Students will consider the implications of the basic concepts from phonology, orthography, morphology, and syntax for teaching reading and for teac...
READ5322 Connecting Reading and Writing WorkshopPracticum The Connecting Reading and Writing Workshop Practicum course integrates reading and writing workshop as a means of developing a comprehensive literacy approach for EC-12 students. This course will aslo fulfill 80 hours of the 160-hour practicum expe...
READ5323 Reading Specialist Practicum II The Reading Specialist Practicum II program is designed to allow students to engage in practical, on-the-job, supervised and evaluated field experiences that provide the foundation for success in skills associated with reading planning, instructional...
READ5331 Reading in the Content Area The major goal of the course is identifying and gaining an understanding about strategies and skills required to read successfully in various content areas. This 5000-level course is cross-listed with a 4000-level course and includes specific graduat...
READ5333 Reading: Clinical Experiences inCorrecting Reading Difficulties This is a course that gives teacher candidates the opportunity to work with public school students who have reading difficulties. The teacher candidate will, with the diagnostic tools learned in READ 4330 Recognizing and Instructing Struggling Reader...
READ5334 Studies in the Diagnosis and ClinicalCorrection of Reading Difficulties An intensive study of the scientific-based diagnostic and prescriptive techniques, utilizing best practices to identify specific strategies for enhancing the acquisition of reading skills. Directed field experience in diagnosing and correcting targe...
READ5335 Pedagogy of Reading I (Phonics) This course is designed to instruct teacher candidates in phonics, its essential tie to learning how to read, the elements of phonics, how to use phonics to teach reading, and its relationship to fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary. This 5000-lev...
READ5336 Pedagogy of Reading II (Comprehension) This course is designed to instruct teacher candidates in the teaching of reading comprehension. This 5000-level course is cross-listed with a 4000-level course and includes specific graduate course requirements which reflect appropriate deeper learn...
READ5337 Pedagogy of Reading III (LiteratureAnd Visual Representation) This course will survey children's and young people's literature as well as visual representations of reading material in various media. The teacher candidate will be required to read and create a database of literature for his/her level of certifica...
READ5338 Pedagogy of Language Arts In this course the teacher candidate will learn strategies for teaching the grammatical and structural elements of Language Arts as well as the writing elements. In addition, the teacher candidate will learn how to assess writing assignments in align...
READ6301 Specialized Reading Assessment andInstruction This course has a field-based component and is designed to upgrade teacher's skills in using formal and informal reading assessment to plan and deliver instruction to meet individual student needs including second language learners and those with rea...
READ6325 Phonics and Word Analysis The Phonics and Word Analysis course examines language processes, including phonological and phonemic awareness, decoding skills, letters and sound relationships, vocabulary, and spelling. The course further investigates current word analysis strate...
READ6326 Understanding Diverse and StrugglingLearners in Reading Understanding Diverse & Struggling Learners in Reading evaluates various theories, issues, and practices of literacy instruction in various academic settings for struggling EC-12 learners including diverse linguistic, cultural, economic, and academic...
READ6330 Foundations of Reading This course addresses the major components of reading programs from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 by investigating oral language, phonology, and phonemic awareness, the alphabetic principle, work analysis, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and...
READ6335 Curriculum and Instruction in Reading An examination of the state's reading and language arts curriculum K-12, and the study of practice of research validated methods of delivering professional development in ways that assist teachers to accomplish instructional changes smoothly and effe...
READ6337 Literacy Leadership and Coaching The Literacy Leadership and Coaching course focuses on methods for mentoring, coaching and collaborating with professional colleagues and parents. This class will utilize assessment, data, and research-based practices to provide the reading instruct...
READ6390 Independent Study in Education Reading Independent Study courses are devised by professors to permit students to explore material not offered in regularly scheduled courses.
READELEC Reading Elective A generic course used for the External Transcript Equivalency Process. If the course does not have an equivalency but will meet subject area the ELEC is used along with the appropriate department to state the course is accepted with in the subject a...