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Transitional bilingual program - The goal is to prepare students to enter mainstream English classrooms (a transition usually completed within two or three years) by providing a portion of instruction in children's native language to help them keep up in school subjects, while they study English in programs designed for second-language learners. Structured immersion program - focus on developing second language abilities of students who speak a minority language (Spanish speakers learning English). Response to Intervention (RTI) - seeks to prevent academic failure through early intervention, frequent progress measurement, and increasingly intensive research-based instructional interventions for children who continue to have difficulty. Resource room - where students with educational disabilities, such as specific learning disabilities, are given direct, specialized instruction and academic remediation and assistance with homework and related assignments as individuals or in groups. Phonics - this instruction helps children learn the relationships between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language. Phonemic awareness - the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds — phonemes — in spoken words. Paraprofessional - A person who provides assistance (e.g., behavior management, health services, transportation or toileting, awaiting placement services, alternate placement services, or sign-language interpretation) either to the entire class or an individual or group of students. Oral proficiency - the ability to use language accurately and appropriately in its oral and written forms in a variety of settings