IRA Helen M. Robinson Grant

The IRA Helen M. Robinson Grant is a US$1,200 award given annually to assist doctoral students at the early stages of their dissertation research in the area of reading and literacy. Applicants must be Association members.

The submission deadline has been extended until Monday, November 5, 2012.

For additional information, contact research@reading.org

Award Recipients

2012

Wilma Benitez-Rivera

Wilma Benitez-Rivera, Howard University, for the doctoral dissertation titled "Efficacy of A2C Strategy for Improving Sentence Comprehension in English Language Learners"

2011
Angie Zapata
University of Texas at Austin
Teachers' Inquiry, Insights, and Instruction With Bilingual Children's Literature to Enhance Language Study

2010
Susan Hart
University of Kentucky
Literacy Grows: Cultivating an Online Literacy Coaching Community

2009
Christina Cassano
Boston University
Examining the relationship between vocabulary and phonological awareness in early childhood through multi-level growth models

2008
Bridget A. Walsh
Denton, TX

2007
Sarah E. Scott
University of Michigan
Understanding the knowledge demands of teaching reading comprehension: Mapping the terrain

2006
Amy M. Vetter
University of Texas at Austin
Creating spaces: Negotiating identities through talk in urban high school English classrooms

2005
Sheila Benson
University of Iowa, Iowa City
Engaging students in literacy: A multiliteracies orientation to literacy instruction

2004
Nancy N. Charron
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Talk at the terminal: The effect of an Internet pen pal program on fourth graders' written language development and attitudes toward writing

2003
Kimberly H. Creamer
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Teaching our children to read: A literacy history

2002
Kalliopi Chliounaki
University of Oxford
The role of morphology in the development of spelling ability in Greek

2001-1997
—Not Given—

1996
Amy E. Seely-Flint University of California
The roles of intertextuality and stance: A study of meaning construction in a third grade classroom

1995-1993
—Not Given—

1992
Barbara Boone Buescher
North Carolina State University
Reasoning operations and inference sources reflected in literary journals of seventh graders

1991
Shelby Ann Wolf
Stanford University
Learning to act/acting to learn: Language and learning in the theatre of the classroom