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| Year | Recipients | Works |
|---|
| 1997 | Darlene 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 (vol. 27, no. 2) |
| 1998 | Peter 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 (vol. 65, no. 1) |
| 1999 | William E. Tunmer James W. Chapman
| “A Longitudinal Study of Beginning Reading Achievement and Reading Self-Concept”, British Journal of Educational Psychology (vol. 67, no. 3) |
| 2000 | Jill Fitzgerald George W. Noblit
| “About Hopes, Aspirations, and Uncertainty: First-Grade English-Language Learners’ Emergent Reading”, Journal of Literacy Research (vol. 31, no. 2) |
| 2001 | Susan B. Neuman | “Books Make a Difference: A Study of Access to Literacy”, Reading Research Quarterly (vol. 34, no. 3)[2] |
| 2002 | Nell K. Duke | “3.6 Minutes Per Day: The Scarcity of Informational Texts in First Grade”, Reading Research Quarterly (vol. 35, no. 2)[3] |
| 2003 | Barbara A. Wasik Mary Alice Bond
| “Beyond the Pages of a Book: Interactive Book Reading and Language Development in Preschool Classrooms”, Journal of Educational Psychology (vol. 93, no. 2) |
| 2004 | Anne McGill Franzen Ellen Adams
Cynthia Lanford
| “Learning to be Literate: A Comparison of Five Urban Early Childhood Programs”, Journal of Educational Psychology (vol. 94, no. 3) |
| 2005 | Darrell 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 (vol. 38, no. 3)[4] |
| 2006 | Carol 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 (vol. 8, no. 4)) |
| 2007 | Terrence Tivnanto Lowry Hemphill
| “Comparing Four Literacy Reform Models in High-Poverty Stricken Schools: Patterns of First-Grade Achievement”, The Elementary School Journal (vol. 105, no. 5) |
| 2008 | Pia 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 (vol. 41, no. 1)[5] |
| 2009 | Catherine F. Compton-Lilly | “The Complexities of Reading Capital in Two Puerto Rican Families”, Reading Research Quarterly (vol. 42, no. 1)[6] |
| 2010 | Deborah Wells Rowe | "The Social Construction of Intentionality: Two-Year-Olds’ and Adults’ Participation at a Preschool Writing Center", Research in the Teaching of English (vol. 42, no. 4) |
| 2011 | Lisa 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 (Vol. 44, No 2) |
| 2012 | Sheila 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 (Vol. 4) |
| 2013 | Michael J. Kieffer | "Converging Trajectories: Reading Growth in Language Minority Learners and Their Classmates, Kindergarten to Grade 8", American Educational Research Journal (Vol. 48 No. 5) |
| 2014 | Shayne B. Piasta Yaacov Petscher
Laura Justice
| "How many letters should preschoolers in public programs know? The diagnostic efficiency of various preschool letter-naming benchmarks for predicting first-grade literacy achievement", Journal of Educational Psychology (Vol. 104 No. 4) |
| 2015 | Lori E. Skibbe Samantha W. Bindman
Annemarie H. Hindman
Dorit Aram
Frederick J. Morrison
| "Longitudinal relations between parental writing support and preschoolers' language and literacy skills", Reading Research Quarterly (Vol. 48 No. 4) |
| 2016 | Susan Hopewell Kathy Escamilla
| "Struggling Reader or Emerging Biliterate Student? Reevaluating the Criteria for Labeling Emerging Bilingual Students as Low Achieving", Journal of Literacy Research (Vol. 46 No. 1) |
| 2017 | Lea M. McGee Hwewon Kim
Kathryn S. Nelson
Mary D. Fried
| "Change Over Time in First Graders' Strategic Use of Information at Point of Difficulty in Reading", Reading Research Quarterly (Vol. 50 No. 3) |
| 2018 | Maren Aukerman Lorien Chambers Schuldt
| "The Pictures Can Say More Things: Change Across Time in Young Children’s References to Images and Words During Text Discussion", Reading Research Quarterly (Vol. 51 No. 3) |
| 2019 | Dani Kachorsky Lindsey Moses
Frank Serafini
Megan Hoelting
| "Meaning Making With Picturebooks: Young Children's Use of Semiotic Resources", Literacy Research and Instruction (Vol. 56 No. 3) |
| 2022 | Seung-Hee Claire Son Kirsten R. Butcher
Lauren Aimonette Liang
| "The Influence of Interactive Features in Storybook Apps on Children’s Reading Comprehension and Story Enjoyment", The Elementary School Journal (Vol. 120 No. 3) |
| 2022 | Mary-Claire Ball Erin Curran
Fabrice Tanoh
Hermann Akpé
Shakhlo Nematova
Kaja K. Jasińska
| "Learning to Read in Environments With High Risk of Illiteracy: The Role of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education in Supporting Reading", Journal of Educational Psychology (Vol. 114 No. 5) |
| 2023 | Marianne Rice Florina Erbeli
Christopher G. Thompson
Mary Rose Sallese
Melissa Fogarty
| "Phonemic Awareness: A Meta-Analysis for Planning Effective Instruction", Reading Research Quarterly (Vol. 57 No. 4) |
| 2024 | Amber Lawson | "We Can Draw and Think About It Ourselves: Putting Culture and Race in Phonics Instruction", Reading Research Quarterly (vol. 59 No. 1) | |
