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Graduate Reading Endorsement Program

Dr. Sallie Miller is the coordinator for the Graduate Reading Endorsement Program in the College of Education. Her office is in Jordan Hall, Room 310. Dr. Miller can be contacted at 706-565-4071 or miller_sallie@colstate.edu.

A four-course sequence makes up the program (10 semester hours). The courses are based on the New International Reading Standards, the National Reading Panel’s Report, and the work of reading educators from thirteen major universities in the state of Georgia. The following descriptions of the Graduate Reading Endorsement Program are taken from the 2004-2005 catalog.

EDRG 6148. Psychology of Reading: Understanding Readers and the Reading Process (3-0-3) Explores the psychological foundations of reading as a communication system and reading as a learned behavior. This course includes a study of the effects of the mental and physical aspects of learning to read - the maturation process.

EDRG 6245. Assessment and Classroom Instruction (2-2-3) Formal and informal evaluation of students with reading difficulties. Procedures for recommended remediation.

EDRG 6116. Integrating Literacy Strategies in the Middle Grades (3-0-3) An examination of the reading and writing connection and several models of reading with implications for the design, development, and evaluation of appropriate instructional practices at the middle grades and secondary educational level.

EDRG 6118. Methods and Materials for Teaching Reading in Early Childhood (3-0-3) Principles and strategies of teaching reading, including the reading and writing connection. Provides a balance between theory and practice of reading methodologies.

EDRG 6756. Classroom Literacy Seminar (1-0-1) Prerequisites: EDRG 6116 or EDRG 6118, EDRG 6245, and EDRG 6148. This seminar will provide a forum for students to reflect upon strategy implementation in their classrooms. During the seminar students will present documentation of strategy implementation - Reading Endorsement Portfolio.

Upon completion of the three courses and seminar a student will have acquired 10 graduate hours, A Reading Endorsement, and most importantly, a working knowledge of teaching reading. Note: Students must make at least a GPA of 3.0 in each of the reading endorsement courses.

This program requires that the individual have a current teaching certificate in Early Childhood Education, Middle Grades, Secondary Education, or Special Education.