October is Dyslexia Awareness Month, a time devoted to educating others, advocating for change, and celebrating the approximately one in five individuals whose brains are wired differently.

Take a moment to consider how much your interactions with the world around you involve print.

The first week of October is celebrated each year as Dyslexia Awareness Week. It is a time for educators to share what we’ve learned about dyslexia as well as dive into how differentiated, systematically designed, and explicitly delivered instruction helps ALL students, including those with dyslexia, achieve literacy success.

You’ve done the hard work of carefully choosing a high-quality, well-designed, and research-supported structured literacy curriculum and you can’t wait to see the magic happening in classrooms throughout your school.

Learning to read is one of the hallmarks of elementary classroom instruction. And a focus on developing strong word recognition skills in early grades is essential for developing skilled readers.

A major shift in early reading instruction is underway throughout the United States.