Add-on Licensure
Literacy (Reading) Off-Campus

Program Description

Overview

The Literacy (Reading) Add-On Licensure Program is designed to help practicing classroom and special teachers of reading, writing, and language arts to contribute to positive change in how students are taught. These contributions are guided by understandings of the psychology of reading and writing as well as social, cultural, political and physical/physiological aspects of literacy development. In North Carolina, Reading is an add-on license for teaching reading and the related language arts in kindergarten through twelfth grades. The program provides leadership in formulating sound, research-based, differentiated literacy programs and daily instruction, including a variety of ways of teaching as well as refined diagnostic processes and assessment.

All course work is offered at local public school sites. Involvement with students at school sites is done wherever possible. After school hours, the program can be completed in two years.

To receive the NC license students must successfully complete all courses, satisfactorily complete midpoint, exit criteria, and synthesis and evaluation statements, and achieve a passing score on the recommended Praxis Exam.

Current Licensure Praxis Exam
If you currently possess “Highly Qualified” status “A” licensure in a teaching area: Introduction to the Teaching of Reading (10200) The test number is also referred to as 200 and 0200.
If you currently have “Highly Qualified” status “M” licensure in a teaching area:

Please note: If you have a master’s degree, but do not have “M” licensure in a teaching area, you will take the 10200 exam and receive “A” licensure. 		Reading Specialist (20300)
This test number is also referred to as 300 and 0300.

Admissions

Acceptance to cohorts for the Literacy (Reading) Add-On Licensure Program are conducted every other year.

An individual may be admitted to the program if she or he: 1) holds at least a bachelor's degree and 2) holds, or is eligible for, NC teaching licensure or licensure in a related educational areas, such as Speech and Language (either initial or advanced).

Students may earn no more than one grade of L (low pass) and no F grades. A second L or any F will make the students ineligible to register for further classes in the program. Students have five years to complete the program.

No more than 20% of the total number of required program hours may be transferred into a licensure program. No courses may be transferred that precede the date of program enrollment by five years.

Program Contact

Mollie Lloyd, Program Coordinator
lloydm@email.unc.edu
(919) 843-5725