Turn Your Library Into a Dyslexic Positive Literacy Hub and Help Kids Learn to Read

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Transform your library into a literacy hub where kids are learning to read, including:

  • Science of Reading in libraries
  • The disconnect between literacy privilege and unmet literacy needs
  • Building empowering, productive relationships with “reluctant readers”
  • Aligning storytime and PK–YA programing with reading development phases
  • Partnering with literacy specialists to build decodable book collections
  • Removing barriers such as spelling bullying
  • Disrupting generational cycles of literacy avoidance and shame
  • Weeding discrimination and ineffective literacy methods (examples: leveled readers, sight words, Fountas & Pinnell)

The DPLI is grounded in literacy expertise, research, and dyslexic lived experience.

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7 things I wish people knew about dyslexia

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A new animated film has been developed to challenge negative attitudes and misconceptions about dyslexia, after research found that many children feel “hopeless” because of how the learning difference is often described.

The charity Made By Dyslexia, which is behind the animation, surveyed 5,000 dyslexic adults and young people, along with their parents and teachers, including 2,000 participants from the UK.

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Dyslexic thinking made me the scientist I am today

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Progress has always been made by people who think differently. Neurodiversity helps us think outside the box – and when we do, the sky’s the limit

That matters, because dyslexia is still so often described only in terms of what it makes difficult. And yes, some things are difficult. Reading and writing are still a slog, processing information can take more brain power than I would like – and my spelling remains gloriously unreliable. But difficulty is not the whole story. Not even close.

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