• Aligned with HB 538
• Year-long program 
• 150 hours/15 PLUs
• Comprised of 3 separate courses
• Synchronous and asynchronous delivery model via Blackboard Class

• Candidates must hold a valid Georgia T-4 or higher, Clear Renewable Certificate in any teaching, service, or leadership field.
• Minimum of three years of teaching experience.

• Metro RESA Model:
  • Metro RESA Model:
    • Individual course cost $350.
    • The total cost for all three required courses is $1050.
    • Required text fees may vary, depending on whether the candidate chooses to rent or purchase the text. 
    • Participants will not be allowed to begin a course until payment is received by Metro RESA.
      • All fees are non-refundable.
• System, District or School Model:
  • Please contact the Metro RESA Reading Endorsement Coordinator for more information.

This course will focus on the foundational concepts of reading, including the pillars of Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency, and Comprehension. This course is designed to provide and extend candidates' knowledge of reading and effective reading instruction. This course is also aligned to meet the expectations of HB 538. Candidates will explore current research, challenges, materials, strategies, and approaches to teaching reading to P-12 children in our pluralistic society.

Required Texts: Please note that texts may change once the course begins.

• Main text Fisher, D., Frey, N., Lapp, D. (2022). Teaching Reading. Corwin.
• National Reading Panel (2000).  Report of the national reading panel.  National Reading Panel.  
• Georgia Standards of Excellence 
• ** (Optional) Thompkins, G.E. (2009). Literacy in the middle grades: Teaching reading and writing to fourth through eighth graders. (2^nd ed.) Merrill Prentice Hall
• ** (Optional) Thompkins, G. E. (2022). Literacy for the 21^st century (8^th ed.). Pearson. 

This course is designed to provide candidates with knowledge of theoretical models, methods, and materials of literacy assessment. Such knowledge will provide candidates with the framework needed to administer assessments and use the information from formal and informal measures to diagnose and develop appropriate literacy instruction that meets the needs of every student in P-12 classrooms. Critical to this course is the candidate’s need to reflect on personal beliefs about reading assessment and the relationship to their own teaching and learning. This course requires a 15-hour practicum experience. 

Required Texts: Please note that texts may change or be added once the course begins.

• McKenna, M. C., Stahl, K., and Flanigan, K. (2019).  Assessment for reading instruction (4^th ed.). Guilford Pres
•  ** (Optional) Thompkins, G. E. (2022). Literacy for the 21st century (8th ed.). Pearson.
• Georgia Standards of Excellence 

This course is designed to provide Reading Endorsement Candidates with a conceptual and instructional framework and deepen understanding for integrating reading and writing across all disciplines. Essential to this course is the interrelationship between reading and writing in grades P-12. Realizing that much of what is read and written across disciplines involves informational texts (e.g., books, magazines, newspaper, instructions, directions, textbooks, guides, and other content sources), this course will provide candidates with research-based strategies to help readers comprehend and engage in writing with various text structures and formats. Additionally, this course will use the information learned in both courses I and II to enhance and deepen their understanding of how to address reading and writing within different disciplines. This course requires a 15-hour writing practicum experience.

Required Texts

• Lent, Releah Cossett. (2016). This is disciplinary literacy: Reading, writing, thinking and doing.... Content area by content area. Corwin.  
• (Optional) Portaloupi, J. & Fletcher, R.  (2001) Nonfiction craft lesson: Teaching information writing K-8.  Stenhouse Publishers.
• Georgia Standards of Excellence

• Computer with working camera, audio, and stable internet capabilities compatible with Chrome and supporting the Blackboard platform