Awards & Grants

Steven A. Stahl Research Grant

The International Literacy Association (ILA) Steven A. Stahl Research Grant was established by Katherine Dougherty Stahl to honor the memory and work of her late husband. The grant is given biennially to one promising graduate student conducting classroom research on reading each year and includes monetary support in the amount of US$1,000.

This grant is now offered on a biennial basis. The next application cycle will open in August 2024.

Guidelines

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Recent recipients

2023

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Rachel F. Knecht, University of Nevada, Reno
The Effects of a Syntax-Focused Reading Intervention on Middle-School Students’ Syntactic Knowledge

 

2022

Amanda C. Dahl, Georgia State University
Are All Types of Knowledge Created Equal? Exploring the Effects of Different Types of Knowledge on Skilled and Less-Skilled Expository Text Comprehension

2021

Cortney Dilgard, Jacksonville City Schools
Getting to the Root of Reading Intervention for Upper Elementary: A Morphology-based Intervention

2019

Blythe Anderson
Investigating K–2 Teachers’ Vocabulary and Science Talk Over the Course of Professional Development

2018

John Strong
The Effects and Social Validity of a Text Structure Intervention for Reading and Writing in Fourth and Fifth Grade

2017

Miranda Fitzgerald
Texts and Literacy Tasks in Elementary Project-Based Science

2016

Margaret Troyer
Teaching by the Book: Teacher Implementation of a Reading Intervention

2015

Katherine Wright
Writing to Learn in Science Class

 

For additional information, contact ILAAwards@reading.org.