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It was a Tuesday afternoon in my Early Literacy Methods course. My students—preservice teachers in their final year before student teaching—were running through a microteaching exercise. The task was simple: model how to help a second grader tackle an unfamiliar word in a decodable text. One candidate, Emily, froze mid-lesson. She looked at her “student” […]
