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Gently, I would say that expecting her 2yo teacher to have taught her reading (she's just 4, right?) would be a bit much.

I would stop even asking her to read at all. Sometimes they get worked up and anxious when they deduce we are attached to their progress. This has happened with me and my daughter before. FWIW, my DD seemed riiiiight on the cusp of really reading, like SO close, with every possible readiness indicator, for actually years. Then she burst into fluency at almost-5 and was fluent in no time. DS is doing it really differently.