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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.

This award will be offered again in August 2025.

Guidelines

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Recipient

2025

Anthonia-Awhinawhi

Anthonia O. Awhinawhi, Doctoral Candidate, University of South Carolina
Bridging the Gap: Supporting the Reading Development of Bilingual Neurodivergent Adolescents

Past Recipients

2024

Jonathan M. Kittle

2023

Mai W. Zaru

2022

Brittany Finch

2021

Lori Bruner

2020

Xiaoning Wang

2019

Shih-Yuan Liang

 

Complete list of past recipients

 

For additional information, contact ILAAwards@reading.org.