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Research Grant Recipients

 | Aug 29, 2011
The Board of Directors approved the following research grants at its May meeting. Congratulations to all recipients. 

Steven A. Stahl Research Grant 

Lisa O’Brien, Boston University for The Role of Text in the Primary Grades: Supporting Young Children’s Development of Conceptual Knowledge and Expository Text Comprehension 

Elva Knight Research Grants 
Thomas Crisp, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, for the proposal titled “I Just KNOW It’s a Boy: Re-Examining Constructions of Gender in Award- Winning Children’s Picture Books” 
Gay Ivey, James Madison University and Peter Johnston, University at Albany, SUNY, for the proposal titled “A Mixed Methods Study of Literacy Engagement and Its Influence on Youth Identities and Relationships” 

Nila Banton Smith Research Dissemination Support Grant 
Cheri Williams, University of Cincinnati and Connie Mayer, York University, for the proposal titled “Writing Development in Young Deaf Children: A Review of the Literature” 

Helen M. Robinson Grant 
Angie Zapata, University of Texas at Austin, for the proposal titled “Teachers’ Inquiry, Insights, and Instruction with Bilingual Children’s Literature to Enhance Language Study” 

Teacher as Researcher Grants 
Victoria Dodd, Duluth High School, Georgia, for the project titled From Beowulf to Facebook: Student Perceptions of Traditional Language Arts & New Media Literacies 
Joanna Kaiser, University of Nevada, Reno and Michele Cacioppo, Bordewich-Bray Elementary, Nevada, for the project titled Instilling a Love of Books: Reaching for a Lifetime of Literacy Learning 
Erin Vaughn, University of Nevada, Reno, for the project titled The Effects of Students’ Critical-Questioning Skills on Reading Comprehension and the Alignment of Teacher Instruction

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