State Reading Endorsement

Purpose

The Utah Reading Endorsement Program offers teacher candidates and practicing teachers in both  elementary and secondary education the opportunity to certify as reading specialists. The purpose of this program is to strengthen reading achievement of Utah's school children by providing their teachers with additional skills and knowledge for augmenting classroom reading instruction.

Basic Reading Endorsement

The Basic Reading Endorsement Program concentrates on such topics as assessment, phonetics, comprehension, remediation, writing process, content-area reading and writing, use of age-appropriate literature and informational texts, and foundations of reading. The Basic Reading Endorsement is earned via a two-year program. Cohorts, which are preserved throughout the program, are divided up into elementary and secondary endorsements. Required courses are listed below.

• Foundations of Literacy (ElEd 660 - 3 credits)
• Assessment of Reading Processes and Remediation of Reading Difficulties (El Ed 648R, ElEd 645 - 3 credits)
• Early Literacy Instruction/ Advanced Early Literacy (ElEd 642 - 3 credits)
• Writing as a Process (ElEd 533, Eng 423 - 3 credits)
• Children's/Young Adult Literature (ElEd 640, Eng 420 - 3 credits)
• Reading and Writing in the Content Areas (ElEd 647, Eng 378 - 3 credits)
• Advanced Reading Comprehension/ Understanding and Supporting Literacy Development (ElEd 742 - 3 credits)