Does anyone know of any good Instructors of Reading Instruction Methods cources like the one that PattiM has found?
I'd also look at auburn U because...
My favorite reading info website, “the REading Genie,” is by a guy out of there… (http://www.auburn.edu/~murraba/)
Also the College of Saint Rose, I believe, has courses (http://www.strose.edu/) that looked good or perhaps had a college remedial program that was based on MSSL ideas.
The INternet makes it a lot easier to discern which “reading programs” are the stuff of whole language and which ones offer the structured programs. Usually the folks have strong enough opinions so you can figure it out quick!
It depends on where you live and what is available…Hallie Yopp-Slovik who is known for her work on phonemic awareness is on the faculty of the university where I attend and the reading specialist credential is one of the largest credential programs therein. Harvard has a reading lab, Kansas State is where Hugh Catts is located. MaryAnne Wolff is at Tufts University…Type up some of the top names in reading research in a search engine like google to find out if any of them are located near you.