Tennessee Code Title 49. Education § 49-1-903

(1) “Department” means the department of education;

(2) “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;

(3) “Foundational literacy skills” means phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension;

(4) “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;

(5) “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;

(6) “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;

(7) “Parent” means a child's parent or guardian; a person who has custody of the child; or a person designated as the child's caregiver with the power of attorney for the care of the minor child pursuant to the Power of Attorney for Care of a Minor Child Act, compiled in title 34, chapter 6, part 3, who is authorized to enroll the child in public school pursuant to § 49-6-3001;

(8) “Significant reading deficiency” means:

(9) “State board” means the state board of education;

(10) “Tennessee universal reading screener” means the universal reading screener provided by the department; and

(11) “Universal reading screener” means a uniform tool that screens and monitors a student's progress in foundational literacy skills.