1501-N.
["Participating school entity." A school entity that elects
to take part in the Structured Literacy Program.]
"School entity." A school district, intermediate unit, area
career and technical school, charter school, cyber charter
school or regional charter school.
"Structured literacy." Systemic, explicit instruction that:
(1) provides a strong core of foundational skills in the
language systems of English;
(2) integrates listening, speaking, reading, spelling and
writing; and
(3) emphasizes the structure of language across the speech
sound system, the writing system, the structure of sentences,
the meaningful parts of words, the relationship among words and
the organization of spoken and written discourse.
Section 2. The act is amended by adding an article to read:
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"Core curriculum." The curriculum for English language arts
that is adopted for tier 1 instruction to all students.
"Council." The reading leadership council required to be
established by the department under section 1502-N(a)(5).
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"Educator." An individual who has completed approved
professional development under section 1205.8 and is responsible
for providing or supervising reading instruction, intervention
or coaching, including an elementary teacher, school reading
specialist, reading interventionist, special education teacher,
literacy coach, principal or chief school administrator.
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structured
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encoding,
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The instruction may not include strategies for teaching
students to read based on meaning, structure and syntax and
visual cues, which may also be known as MSV.
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"Structured literacy." The term shall have the same meaning
as provided in section 1205.8.
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system of"
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