Awards & Grants

Jeanne S. Chall Research Fellowship  |  Est. 1998

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.

Deadline: February 3, 2025

Guidelines

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Past recipients

2024

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Jonathan M. Kittle, University of Delaware
Reading Specialists’ Knowledge of Spanish to English Cross-Linguistic Transfer and Instruction

 

2023

Mai W. Zaru, Southern Methodist University, Texas

2022

Brittany Finch

2021

Lori Bruner

2020

Xiaoning Wang

2019

Shih-Yuan Liang

 

Complete list of past recipients

 

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