ILA Jeanne S. Chall Research Fellowship
This fellowship is a US$5,000 grant established to encourage and support reading research by promising scholars. Its special emphasis is to support research efforts in the following areas: beginning reading (theory, research, and practice that improves the effectiveness of learning to read); readability (methods of predicting the difficulty of texts); reading difficulty (diagnosis, treatment, and prevention); stages of reading development; the relation of vocabulary to reading; and diagnosing and teaching adults with limited reading ability. Projects should be completed within two years. Applicants must be ILA members.
Deadline: January 15
Guidelines
Application
Recent recipients
2017
2016
Sarah Lupo
Investigating the Relationship of Text Selection and Instructional Method to Adolescent Readers' Comprehension Proficiency During Intervention
2015
Jolie Heath
Teaching Third Graders to Read Multi-Syllable Words: Effects of Practice
2014
Robin O'Leary
Do Spellings of Words and Phoneme Segmentation Training Facilitate Vocabulary Learning in Preschoolers?
2013
Susan Gray
Adult Literacy and Citizenship: Empowering Struggling Readers With Morphological Instruction and Civics
For additional information, contact ILAAwards@reading.org.