Dina Feitelson Research Award


The Dina Feitelson Research Award is an award established in 1997 by the International Reading Association to honor the memory of Dina Feitelson, the Israeli educator, who died in 1992.

Criteria for award

The award recognizes an outstanding empirical study published in English in a refereed journal. The work should report on one or more aspects of literacy acquisition, such as phonemic awareness, the alphabetic principle, bilingualism, or cross-cultural studies of beginning reading.
Works may be submitted by the author or anyone else.

List of recipients

YearRecipientsWorks
1997Darlene M. Tangel
Benita A. Blachman
“Effect of Phoneme Awareness Instruction on the Invented Spelling of First-Grade Children: A One-Year Follow-Up”, Journal of Reading Behavior
1998Peter J. Hatcher
Charles Hulme
Andrew W. Ellis
“Ameliorating Early Reading Failure by Integrating the Teaching of Reading and Phonological Skills: The Phonological Linkage Hypothesis”, Child Development
1999William E. Tunmer
James W. Chapman
“A Longitudinal Study of Beginning Reading Achievement and Reading Self-Concept”, British Journal of Educational Psychology
2000Jill Fitzgerald
George W. Noblit
“About Hopes, Aspirations, and Uncertainty: First-Grade English-Language Learners’ Emergent Reading”, Journal of Literacy Research
2001Susan B. Neuman“Books Make a Difference: A Study of Access to Literacy”, Reading Research Quarterly
2002Nell K. Duke“3.6 Minutes Per Day: The Scarcity of Informational Texts in First Grade”, Reading Research Quarterly
2003Barbara A. Wasik
Mary Alice Bond
“Beyond the Pages of a Book: Interactive Book Reading and Language Development in Preschool Classrooms”, Journal of Educational Psychology
2004Anne McGill Franzen
Ellen Adams
Cynthia Lanford
“Learning to be Literate: A Comparison of Five Urban Early Childhood Programs”, Journal of Educational Psychology
2005Darrell Morris
Janet W. Bloodgood
Richard G. Lomax
Jan Perney
“Developmental Steps in Learning to Read: A Longitudinal Study in Kindergarten and First Grade”, Reading Research Quarterly
2006Carol McDonald Connor
Frederick J. Morrison
Leslie E. Katch
“Beyond the Reading Wars: Exploring the Effect of Child-Instruction Interactions on Growth in Early Reading”, Scientific Studies of Reading )
2007Terrence Tivnanto
Lowry Hemphill
“Comparing Four Literacy Reform Models in High-Poverty Stricken Schools: Patterns of First-Grade Achievement”, The Elementary School Journal
2008Pia Rebello Britto
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Terri M. Griffin
“Maternal Reading and Teaching Patterns: Associations With School Readiness in Low-Income African American Families”, Reading Research Quarterly
2009Catherine F. Compton-Lilly“The Complexities of Reading Capital in Two Puerto Rican Families”, Reading Research Quarterly
2010Deborah Wells Rowe"The Social Construction of Intentionality: Two-Year-Olds’ and Adults’ Participation at a Preschool Writing Center", Research in the Teaching of English
2011Lisa Hammett Price
Anne van Kleec
Carl J. Huberty
"Talk During Book Sharing Between Parents and Preschool Children: A Comparison Between Storybook and Expository Book Conditions", Reading Research Quarterly
2012Sheila W. Valencia
Antony T. Smith
Anne M. Reece
Min Li
Karen K. Wixson
Heather Newman
"Oral Reading Fluency Assessment: Issues of Construct, Criterion, and Consequential Validity", Reading Research Quarterly
2013Michael J. Kieffer"Converging Trajectories: Reading Growth in Language Minority Learners and Their Classmates, Kindergarten to Grade 8", American Educational Research Journal
2014Shayne B. Piasta
Yaacov Petscher
Laura Justice