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Master Reading Teacher Certification Requirements

  1. Hold a valid Texas teacher certificate.
  2. Bachelor's degree.
  3. A minimum of three years of teaching experience in an accredited school.
  4. Complete the 15 semester hours of specified graduate-level courses beyond the bachelor's degree in an approved graduate teacher education program. Students must have a signed plan on file.
  5. The program for the certificate includes:
    1. C&I 6360 Foundations of Literacy Learning
    2. C&I 6362 Diagnostic Testing of Reading
    3. C&I 6404 Practicum in Literacy
    4. LNG 6310 Linguistics in Reading
    5. AED 6315 Principles of Instructional Supervision
  6. Pass the TExMaT #85 for Master Reading Teacher, unless you hold a Reading Specialist Certificate.