Reading Specialist Licensure: Applicants for a reading specialist endorsement must hold a currently valid professional teaching license and complete the following graduate courses, with a minimum 3.25 cumulative GPA in graduate coursework:

• TEEL 861 Advanced Literature for Children and Young Adults 3
• TEEL 881 Content Area Reading 3
• TEEL 882 Trends in Language Arts 3
• TEEL 883 Clinical Reading Diagnosis and Remediation 4
• TEEL 884 Literacy Development 3
• TEEL 885 The School Reading Program (Practicum) 3

Total 19

The requirements may also be met for prerequisite credit via the following three courses or their equivalent.

• TEEL 680 Correction of Reading Disabilities Internship II 1
• TEEL 681 Correction of Reading Disabilities II 3
• TEEL 865 Teaching Reading Skills 3

Total 7

The pre-requisite course requirement to be met is completion of TEEL 365 Reading and Language Arts Methods, TEEL 481 Correction of Reading Disabilities I, and TEEL 480 Correction of Reading Disabilities Internship I which are undergraduate courses.

In order to meet Kansas State Department of Education licensure guidelines, Reading Specialist students must have two years of recent classroom teaching experience (within six years), complete a Master’s degree before applying for a conditional school specialist license and a post-graduation internship before applying for a professional school specialist license. After graduation with the MS degree and receiving the conditional Reading Specialist license, students must secure a full-time teaching position and enroll in two semesters of “Reading Specialist Internship.” Upon successful completion of a two-hour internship in each of two semesters, students will be eligible to apply for a professional Kansas Reading Specialist license.