An assignment in a departmentalized classroom for Reading Improvement (one year or more below grade level), Grades 6-8, for a holder of a valid elementary, secondary, or all-level certificate is allowed with one of the following certificates.

1. (1) Bilingual Generalist: Early Childhood-Grade 6 (Grade 6 only).
2. (2) Bilingual Generalist: Grades 4-8.
3. (3) Core Subjects: Early Childhood-Grade 6 (Grade 6 only).
4. (4) Core Subjects with Science of Teaching Reading: Early Childhood-Grade 6 (Grade 6 only).
5. (5) Core Subjects: Grades 4-8.
6. (6) Core Subjects with Science of Teaching Reading: Grades 4-8.
7. (7) Elementary English (Grades 1-8). This assignment requires verifiable preparation in teaching of reading such as in-service, seminar, or college course in reading. Initial assignments beginning with the 1990-1991 school year require nine semester credit hours of upper-division coursework in reading with at least one course in diagnostic reading techniques.
8. (8) Elementary Reading (Grades 1-8).
9. (9) Elementary teacher certificate plus 18 semester credit hours in English and nine semester credit hours of upper-division coursework in reading with at least one course in diagnostic reading techniques.
10. (10) English as a Second Language Generalist: Early Childhood-Grade 6 (Grade 6 only).
11. (11) English as a Second Language Generalist: Grades 4-8.
12. (12) English Language Arts and Reading: Grades 4-8.
13. (13) English Language Arts and Reading with Science of Teaching Reading: Grades 4-8.
14. (14) English Language Arts and Reading: Grades 7-12 (Grades 7 and 8 only).
15. (15) English Language Arts and Reading: Grades 8-12 (Grade 8 only).
16. (16) English Language Arts and Reading/Social Studies: Grades 4-8.
17. (17) English Language Arts and Reading/Social Studies with Science of Teaching Reading: Grades 4-8.
18. (18) Generalist: Early Childhood-Grade 6 (Grade 6 only).
19. (19) Generalist: Grades 4-8.
20. (20) Grades 6-12 or Grades 6-8--English. This assignment requires verifiable preparation in the teaching of reading such as in-service, seminar, or college course in reading. Initial assignments beginning with the 1990-1991 school year require nine semester credit hours of upper-division coursework in reading with at least one course in diagnostic reading techniques.
21. (21) Grades 6-12 or Grades 6-8--English Language Arts, Composite. This assignment includes at least six semester credit hours of reading. Initial assignments beginning with the 2003-2004 school year require nine semester credit hours of upper-division coursework in reading with at least one course in diagnostic reading techniques.
22. (22) Grades 6-12 or Grades 6-8--Reading.
23. (23) Junior High School or High School--English. This assignment requires verifiable preparation in the teaching of reading such as in-service, seminar, or college course in reading. Initial assignments beginning with the 1990-1991 school year require nine semester credit hours of upper-division coursework in reading with at least one course in diagnostic reading techniques.
24. (24) Junior High School or High School--English Language Arts, Composite. This assignment includes at least six semester credit hours of reading. Initial assignments beginning with the 2003-2004 school year require nine semester credit hours of upper-division coursework in reading with at least one course in diagnostic reading techniques.
25. (25) Junior High School or High School--Reading.
26. (26) Legacy Master Reading Teacher (Early Childhood-Grade 12).
27. (27) Reading Specialist.
28. (28) Reading Specialist (Early Childhood-Grade 12).
29. (29) Secondary English (Grades 6-12). This assignment requires verifiable preparation in the teaching of reading such as in-service, seminar, or college course in reading. Initial assignments beginning with the 1990-1991 school year require nine semester credit hours of upper-division coursework in reading with at least one course in diagnostic reading techniques.
30. (30) Secondary English Language Arts, Composite (Grades 6-12). This assignment includes at least six semester credit hours of reading. Initial assignments beginning with the 2003-2004 school year require nine semester credit hours of upper-division coursework in reading with at least one course in diagnostic reading techniques.
31. (31) Secondary Reading (Grades 6-12).
32. (32) Teacher certificate plus 9 semester credit hours of upper-division coursework in reading with at least one course in diagnostic reading techniques.

Source Note:The provisions of this §231.51 adopted to be effective August 15, 2013, 38 TexReg 5076; amended to be effective December 29, 2014, 39 TexReg 10474; amended to be effective December 27, 2020, 45 TexReg 9183; amended to be effective July 21, 2022, 47 TexReg 4319.