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: June 1, 2020
Guidelines
Application
Recent recipients
2019
2018
Shuling Yang
Coaching Preschool Teachers to Ask Higher-Level Questions in Dialogic Reading
2017
Christopher Wenz
Reading Profiles of Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Mixed Methods Study of Individual Differences in Reading
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
For additional information, contact ILAAwards@reading.org.