Reading Recovery Teacher

UALR is a certified University Training Center for preparing Reading Recovery teachers. The training program is regulated by the Guidelines and Standards for preparing Reading Recovery Educators. Upon acceptance to the UALR Reading Recovery Teacher-Training program, the candidate completes 6 credit hours of specialized Reading Recovery course work. In Year 1, the candidate receives training as a Reading Recovery Teacher. In Year 2, the candidate receives training in the K-6 small group intervention model.

Required Courses (Six hours):

Graduate Certificates

The Reading Education Program offers three graduate level certificates: the Literacy Intervention Specialist graduate certificate, the Literacy Coach Specialist graduate certificate, and the Dyslexia Therapist graduate certificate. The Literacy Intervention Specialist and Literacy Coach Specialist programs include an 18 credit hour program of study for preparing candidates for the specialized roles aligned with the International Reading Association.The Dyslexia Therapist Graduate Certificate is a 12 credit hour post-baccalaureate program designed for teachers to become certified by the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) as K-12 dyslexia therapists.

Graduate Certificate Admission Requirements

All applicants for both regular and conditional admission status must have:

Valid teaching license (Arkansas or other state) (Note: Not required for Literacy & Culture)
Favorable recommendations from faculty in the program

Specific admission criteria for regular or conditional admission:

Regular Admission

Conditional Admission

Baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution with a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.75. (4.0 scale)

Grade point average of at least 3.0 for the last 60 hours of undergraduate courses.

Master’s degree from a regionally accredited institution with a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0.

(Please note: the master’s degree requirement above is required for entry into the Literacy Coach Specialist program as it is a post-master’s program.)

Baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution; a cumulative undergraduate GPA of no lower than 2.5; and a Graduate Record Exam (GRE) score of at least 141 on the Verbal Scale, 150 on the Quantitative Scale, and 4.5 on the Analytical Writing Scale.

Completion of at least 12 semester hours of graduate course work in another UALR graduate program or graduate program from another regionally accredited college or university with a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 and no grade lower than a B.