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The Tennessee Literacy Success Act, passed in 2021, establishes a
statewide system to ensure that students in early grades are on track to
become proficient readers by the end of 3rd grade. The TLSA include the
following requirements:

• An approved universal screener must be administered three times a
  year to all K-3 students.
• Reading interventions and supports must be provided to any student
  who demonstrates a lack of proficiency on the universal screener.
• A Home Literacy Report must be provided to a student’s parent after
  each administration of the universal reading screener.
•  All districts and public charter schools must submit a Foundational
  Literacy Skills plan to the state.
• All K-5 teachers are required to complete a least one approved
  professional development course on foundational literacy skills
  instruction.
• The state department must develop and make available at no cost at
  least one professional development course on foundational literacy
  skills
• All districts are required to us State Board-approved standards-
  aligned English Language Arts instructional materials unless a waiver
  is granted.

T.C.A. § 491229, known as the “Say Dyslexia Law,” established legal
requirements for identifying and supporting students with characteristics of
dyslexia. The law includes the following requirements:

• All school districts and public charters must screen students for
  characteristics of dyslexia as part of their universal screening process
  using measures of phonological and phonemic awareness, decoding, encoding, alphabet knowledge, sound-symbol association, and rapid-automatized naming.
• Students identified with characteristics of dyslexia must receive a dyslexia-specific intervention and their progress must be monitored for effectiveness of the intervention.
• Parents must be notified when students are identified and provide
  information on available supports.
• An annual report must be submitted to the state legislative education
  committee.

Access the state’s primary hub for High-Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM), the Reading 360 initiative, and state-led teacher training modules.

A premier destination for dyslexia-specific screening tools, the annual Fox Reading Conference archives, and evidence-based infographics for educators and families.

The latest research-to-practice guides and state-level data analysis from the University of Tennessee’s literacy research hub.