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Steven Stahl Professor Curriculum & Instruction 395A Education Building 1310 S. 6th St. MC 708 Email: sstahl@uiuc.edu Phone: 244-9698

Research Biography | Degrees | Key Professional Appointments | Activities & Honors | Grants | Selected Publications

Research Biography: I have a long-standing interest in the effects of reading instruction, especially in the beginning stages of reading. I have conducted research in classrooms, examining how different aspects of reading instruction affect children´s word recognition and perception of reading. I have taught remedial reading and special education in elementary and middle schools. Prior to my current position, I was also a Senior Scientist at the Center for the Study of Reading and a principal investigator at the National Reading Research Center, also funded by OERI. At the Center, I co-authored the summary of Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print; I have published on all areas of reading education.

Degrees: Ed.D., Reading, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1982 Ed.M., Special Education, Boston University, 1973 A.B., English, Colgate University, 1972

Key Professional Appointments: Professor, Curriculum & Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamapign, 2002- Co-Director, , Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement, 1999-2002 Professor, Director, Reading Clinic, University of Georgia, 1990-2002 Visiting Scholar, , University of British Columbia, 1999-1999 Visiting Associate Professor, , University of Illinois, 1989-1990 Associate Professor, Department of Elementary Education and Reading, Western Illinois University, 1984-1989

Activities & Honors: William S. Gray Citation of Merit, William S. Gray Citation of Merit, International Reading Association, 2004- present Oscar Causey Award, Oscar Causey Award, Lifetime achievement in literacy research, National Reading Conference, 2004- present Member, Assessment Committee, Reading First (Illinois Reads) Program, Illinois State Board of Education, 2002- present George Graham Lecturer in Reading, University of Virginia, 2002 Interpretive Scholarship Award, for Relating Research into Practice, American Educational Research Association, 2001 Elected Board Member, National Reading Conference, 2000-2002 Noted Scholar, Georgia Southern University, 2000 Harold E. Mitzel Award, for Meritorious Contribution to Educational Practice through Research, Journal of Educational Research, 1995 Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Literacy Research, 1988- present Member, Editorial Board, Reading Research Quarterly, 1986- present

Grants: Principal Investigator, Instruction of Reading Comprehension: Cognitive Strategies or Cognitive Engagement, U. S. Department of Education, 2003-2006 Principal Investigator, The Development of Fluent and Automatic Reading, National Science Foundation, 2001-2005 Senior Personnel/Project Staff, Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement, Office of Education Research & Improvement, 1998-2003

Selected Publications: van Kleeck, A., Stahl, S.A., & Bauer, E.B., eds. (2003) On reading books to children: Teachers and Parents. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Flood, J., Hasbrouck, J. E., Hoffman, J. V., Lapp, D., Lubcker, D., Medearis, A. S., Paris, S., Stahl, S., Tinajero, J. V., Wood, K. D. (2003). MacMillan McGraw-Hill Reading Program. New York: McGraw-Hill. Stahl, S. A. (2003). Reading clinics. In B. Guzzetti (Ed.), Literacy in America: An encyclopedia (pp. 502-506). New York: ABC-CLIO. Mason, J., Stahl, S. A., Au, K. H., & Herman, P. A. (2002). Reading: Children��s developing knowledge of words. In J. Flood, D. Lapp, J. Squire, & J. Jensen (Eds.), Handbook of research on teaching of the English language arts. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Stahl, S. A., & Kuhn, M. R. (2002). Making it sound like language: Developing fluency. The Reading Teacher, 55(6), 582-584.

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