Turn Your Library Into a Dyslexic Positive Literacy Hub and Help Kids Learn to Read
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The Dyslexic Positive Libraries Initiative shows how to transform your library into a literacy hub where kids learn to read.
Across the country, library workers are pouring time, energy, and heart into connecting with reluctant readers. Despite these efforts, the national data reveals a growing literacy crisis:
- 28% of adults cannot read yet (PIAAC 2023)
- 32% of 12th graders don’t have basic reading skills (NCEP 2024)
Libraries and library workers have the power to reverse this trend. Join the Dyslexic Positive Libraries Initiative (DPLI) for an empowering webinar led by literacy specialist Emily Carley, youth library specialist Nicole Westbom, and dyslexic academic librarian Susan Whitehead.
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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