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READ 5011   (0-0-0)   Reading Specialist Seminar
This required course is designed to help students prepare for the Texas Examination of Educator Standards (TExES). The course will focus on content and sample questions from state authorized preparation manuals distributed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Information will also be gleaned from the Reading Specialists state publication appropriate sources. Students must score a minimum of 85% on the DBU TExES practice test in order to pass the course and be authorized by the College of Education to take the TExES examination.  Periodically.
Prerequisite: READ 5331 or ESLS 5306; READ 5332 or READ 5334; READ 6301, READ 6330, READ 6335; and one course from the following: READ 5333 (S-L), ECHE 6373, ENGL 5302, READ 5301. The candidate may be approved to take the seminar while completing the last semester of coursework.