California Reading/Literacy Added Authorization (RLAA)

✔ Earn your added authorization in only two semesters!
✔ Courses are online!
✔ Program combines one PLC meeting per week with asynchronous work!
✔ Option to apply authorization coursework towards a Master’s Degree in Reading!
✔ Program accredited by California Commission on Teacher Credentialing and Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation

The RLAA program of study provides advanced preparation in literacy education and assessment and prepares teachers to address the literacy needs of culturally and linguistically diverse learners within the grade levels authorized by the holder’s valid credential at the classroom and school site. The RLAA is a 15-unit program that takes two semesters to complete.

Holders of the RLAA are authorized to perform the following duties at the school site level (could be at one or more school sites) at the grade levels authorized by their prerequisite teaching credential:

• Provide direct reading intervention to students and adapt instructional practices and strategies to provide direct specialized reading instruction to students with severe reading difficulties including monitoring and adjusting intervention instruction.
• Participate in the adoption of literacy curricula, facilitate and monitor implementation of adopted curricula, and support and assist teachers in the use of literacy curricula.
• Select and administer ongoing formal and informal diagnostic assessments of students’ progress, report results, assist teachers in modifying instructional practices, and use the results for student placement in and exit from reading intervention programs.
• Interpret results of school-wide reading assessment data to monitor student progress and identify modification of instructional practices and strategies to assist teachers.
• Develop, implement and adapt reading and literacy instructional materials, technologies, and strategies in alignment with students’ assessed reading and literacy needs including the prevention and intervention of reading difficulties; and assist teachers to ensure that the full range of students develop proficiency.
• Assist students’ and teachers’ use of information and communication technologies and the development of digital literacy skills.

NOTES:

1. No course substitutions.
2. Candidates interested in pursuing a Reading/Literacy Added Authorization  (RLAA) need to possess a California ECE, Multiple or Single Subject Teaching Credential, and have two (2) years of teaching to enter the program and three (3) years of teaching at the time the credential application is submitted to the State of California.

For more information, contact Dr. Lisa Bennett at lbennett@csufresno.edu. 

RLAA Admission Requirements

1. Application through Cal State Apply.
2. Transcripts (official copy of transcripts showing a baccalaureate degree and all post-B.A. coursework).
3. Statement of purpose
4. Three letters of recommendation
5. Minimum 2.75 GPA
6. Verification of a basic teaching credential (Multiple Subject, Single Subject, or Education Specialist) as specified in Education Code section 44203€.
7. Verification of at least 2 years of full-time teaching experience in any grade, preschool through adult, exclusive of student teaching, internship teaching or teaching while holding an emergency permit.
8. Evidence of having met the California Basic Skills Requirement (BSR).
9. Evidence of having met the English Learner Authorization.

Required for RLAA Recommendation

1. Completion of RLAA coursework with a cumulative GPA of 3.0.
2. Verification of at least 3 years of full-time, credentialed teaching experience in any grade, preschool through adult, exclusive of student teaching, internship teaching or teaching while holding an emergency permit.

Note: Admission into programs leading to licensure and credentialing does not guarantee that students will obtain a license or credential. Licensure and credentialing requirements are set by agencies not controlled or affiliated with the CSU. Students are responsible for determining whether they can meet licensure or credentialing requirements. The CSU will not refund tuition, fees, or any associated costs to students who determine after admission that they cannot meet licensure or credentialing requirements. See Notice to Students: Licensure and Certification for more information.

Visit the Fresno State Catalog for course descriptions.

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