diff --git a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-ecr/README.md b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-ecr/README.md
index 0a2ef76458ac3..6278238b84eab 100644
--- a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-ecr/README.md
+++ b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-ecr/README.md
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ grants an IAM user access to call this API.
 import * as iam from '@aws-cdk/aws-iam';
 
 const user = new iam.User(this, 'User', { ... });
-AuthorizationToken.grantRead(user);
+iam.AuthorizationToken.grantRead(user);
 ```
 
 ## Automatically clean up repositories