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Graduate Certificate Structured Literacy Interventionist PK-12
The goal of this program is to equip future educators with the knowledge and skills to implement evidence-based, structured literacy instruction, focusing on phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. The program emphasizes the importance of understanding the science of reading and instruction that targets the needs of diverse learners, especially those with dyslexia.
Coursework includes principles of leadership, coaching and collaboration with other educators to enhance structured literacy instruction across many different programs in schools that focus on improving literacy skills for students with specific learning needs.
The 8-week online courses within the certificate are included in Arcadia’s International Dyslexia Association (IDA) accredited Reading program.
If you choose, certificate coursework can be integrated into a master’s degree with or without PDE certification in special education, in PK-4 education, or Reading, which allows individuals with these degrees to highlight expertise in the Science of Reading and Structured Literacy.
Educators Need Structure Literacy Training
Beginning in 2023-24, the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) has mandated that the continuing professional education plan of each school entity include Structured Literacy training for professional employees who hold instructional certificates in early childhood, elementary-middle level, special education-PK-12, English as a second language, and reading specialist. All pre-service teachers seeking PDE certification must receive training in structured literacy competencies through their teacher preparation programs. This certificate supports expertise and interventionist skills in relation to these objectives.
To ensure that school personnel have the knowledge and skill to teach all students to read, including students with dyslexia and other language-based learning disabilities, Arcadia offers a 4-course fully online certificate program, Structured Literacy Interventionist PK-12.
Featured Courses
Strategic Instruction in Emergent and Content Literacy K-12
Explore research-based instructional strategies for teaching literacy, including language development, reading, writing, and speaking to learners. During this 8-week, fully online course, you will discover practical and effective modifications for diverse learners, including struggling readers, English language learners, and students with disabilities in reading.
Strategic Instruction for Adolescent Readers and Writers, Grades 7-12
In this fully online 8-week course, you will create a repertoire of teaching strategies to address the needs of adolescent readers. Topics include strategies to facilitate comprehension in the content area subjects, writing across the curriculum, word study, structural analysis, classic and contemporary literature selection and study skills for the adolescent learners.
Assessment, Analysis and Instruction in Reading and Writing
Topics in this fully online 8-week course focus on the student’s development of knowledge and skills related to selecting, developing and administering a range of formal and informal literacy assessments (norm-referenced, criterion-referenced, summative, formative, informal).
Seminar in Reading
Explore reading and writing processes, explore the ways that literacy is changing in relation to technology, understand the current role(s) of reading specialists and literacy coaches in schools, learn about professional organizations and professional journals in the field (both locally and nationally). This is a fully online 8-week course.
Meet the Structured Literacy Interventionist PK-12, Online Certificate Faculty
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Phone (267) 620-4132Email hickmanp@arcadia.eduOffice Hours By appointment, schedule office hour meetings via email
Out-of-State SOE Online Program Student Complaint Contact Information
Students based outside of Pennsylvania who have consumer-protection-based complaints regarding a distance education program should first seek to resolve such a complaint within the school in which the student is registered. For unresolved complaints, students in fully online programs should consult the NC-SARA webpage.
