Kaylee, an eighth-grader in a light blue hoodie, read a list of words, one by one, to teacher Jessica Thurby. She stumbled on a few: Debate came out “deblate,” sacred turned into “secret,” and defend became “define.” 

The pair went over the missed words. As Kaylee took another stab at “sacred,” she said, “It looked like the word “scared.” 

“It did,” Thurby said. “So, our brain automatically guessed. We’re trying to get out of that, remember?”

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