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This is on point. I'm Megna Chakrabardi and here is a very basic expectation that we all have,

that when kids go to school, they're going to be taught how to read.

I mean, it's kind of the entire purpose of early elementary education, isn't it?

Well, Missy Persell thought that.

And in fact, for as long as she could remember, she loved to read.

So much so that Missy also knew she wanted to be a teacher.

So, when she grew up,

Missy began training for a teaching career at the University of Georgia.

My entire training was in what I didn't even know at that time was the term, but it was balance literacy.

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