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Elementary
Certificate holders with certification in early childhood education, elementary education, and special education Infant-3 and 1-8 are required to complete 12 semester hours in reading, which shall include:
Processes and acquisition of reading skills
Methods of teaching reading
Reading assessment
Materials for teaching reading
Secondary
Certificate holders with certification in a secondary content area, special education 6- Adult, PreK-12 disciplines and library media specialist are required to complete 6 semester hours in reading, which shall include:
Types of reading
Reading assessment
Reading instruction
Strategies for intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for reading
Teaching students to learn from text
Processing multimedia information and strategies to connect reading with study skills
Integrating content area goals with reading goals
These courses are typically titled "Literacy in the Content Area" or "Reading in the Content Area."