IRA Steven A. Stahl Research Grant
This US$1,000 award, supported by Katherine Stahl, was established to honor the memory and work of Steven A. Stahl by encouraging and supporting promising graduate students in their research. This grant will be awarded annually to a recipient with at least three years of teaching experience who is conducting classroom research (including action research) focused on improving reading instruction and children’s reading achievement.
Application Information
For additional information, contact research@reading.org
2012
Joe Stouffer
Joe Stouffer, University of British Columbia, for the project "The Classroom Impact of Reading Recovery Training: Re-Situating and Examining Reading Recovery-Based Teacher Learning"
2011
Lisa O'Brien, Boston University
Proposal: "The Role of Text in the Primary Grades: Supporting Young Children's Development of Conceptual Knowledge and Expository Text Comprehension"
2010
Lama Farran, Georgia State University
Proposal: "The Relationship between Phonological Awareness, Morphological Awareness, Vocabulary, and Reading in English-Arabic Bilingual Children"
2009
Annette Keane, New York
Proposal: "Doing What Needs Doing: How Culturally Responsive Teachers Integrate Tier 1 of an RTI Model into the General Education Literacy Program"
2008
Dot McElhone, San Francisco, California
Proposal: "Conceptual Press Discourse in Reading Comprehension Instruction: Making Every Interaction Count"
2007
Amy Alexandra Wilson, University of Georgia
Proposal: "Investigating Professional Development in Content-Area Literacy Instruction: A Case Study of One Middle School Team"
2006
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