As a former struggling reader turned literacy educator, and now a Master's in Literacy graduate (Well, this is my last assignment), I learned all the strategies for pretending I could read; sitting in class year after year, I became more skilled at faking the ability to read. All the while, teachers were providing me flashcards and memorization tips, yet I was secretly plotting my own ideas of how to read. Fast forward to becoming a teacher in 2009, my goal was to help studen

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