Microcredentials

Reading Foundations Microcredential

This micro-credential provides an alternate approach to gain cutting- edge, real-world skills that are in high demand. Skills-based, this micro-credential keeps you current with the skills needed to more effectively support reading development for today’s K-12 students. The micro-credential provides an introduction to the reading foundational skills.

Skills Acquired

• Understanding of the six strands of the reading process
• Strategies for developing emergent literacy skills
• Strategies for supporting secondary and content area reading
• Formal and informal assessments for addressing students’ concerns
• Using data to differentiate reading instruction
• Role of technology in literacy instruction
• Literacy for the 21st Century

Who Should Take the Reading Foundations Microcredential?

• Teachers working with K-12 students
• Professionals wanting a reading cognate to expand their skills

Courses

EDU-602 Foundations of Reading, 3 credit hours

EDU-605 Elementary Reading, Assessment, and Intervention, 3 credit hours

EDU-610 Secondary Literacy, Assessment, and Intervention, 3 credit hours

EDU-613 Emergent Literacy, 3 credit hours

EDU-673 Supervised Practicum in Reading, 3 credit hours

To register, contact the Center for Alternative Pathway Programs at 877-815-4996 or at micro@saintleo.edu.

For Reading Foundations Micro-Credential Tuition Information, refer to updated tuition per credit hour for Master of Education Program.

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