Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 49 > Chapter 1 > Part 9 - Tennessee Literacy Initiative Act of 1999

• Department: means the department of education. See Tennessee Code 49-1-903
• Educator preparation provider: means an entity approved by the state board that is responsible for managing, operating, or coordinating programs for the preparation and licensure of teachers, school leaders, and other school personnel. See Tennessee Code 49-1-903
• Foundational literacy skills: means phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. See Tennessee Code 49-1-903
• Foundational literacy skills instruction: means an evidence-based method of teaching students to read that includes phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension that enables students to develop the reading skills required to meet Tennessee's academic standards. See Tennessee Code 49-1-903
• Foundational literacy skills plan: means a proposal that details how an LEA or public charter school plans to provide foundational literacy skills instruction to students and reading interventions and supports, which may include interventions provided pursuant to Tennessee's response to instruction and intervention framework manual, to students identified as having a significant reading deficiency. See Tennessee Code 49-1-903
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Home literacy report: means a report provided to a student's parent by the LEA or public charter school describing the student's progress in foundational literacy skills. See Tennessee Code 49-1-903
• Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Parent: means a child's parent or guardian. See Tennessee Code 49-1-903
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Significant reading deficiency: means :
  (A) For students in kindergarten through grade three (K-3), that a student's score on a universal reading screener is within the range of scores determined by the department to demonstrate a lack of proficiency in foundational literacy skills. See Tennessee Code 49-1-903
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• State board: means the state board of education. See Tennessee Code 49-1-903
• Tennessee universal reading screener: means the universal reading screener provided by the department. See Tennessee Code 49-1-903
• Universal reading screener: means a uniform tool that screens and monitors a student's progress in foundational literacy skills. See Tennessee Code 49-1-903
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105