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of Linnea C. Ehri
 
I am a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. I am a member of the faculty in Educational Psychology and in Speech and Hearing Sciences. I conduct research on literacy acquisition. I am especially interested in how children learn to read and spell and what causes some children difficulty in becoming good readers and spellers. For more information about my research, you can examine the papers I have published (see below). For information about our Ph.D. program, see the information for prospective students below as well as the Educational Psychology website.
 
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Ph.D. Program in Educational Psychology
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016

Phone: 212-817-8294
email: LEhri@gc.cuny.edu

 
Prospective Students
 
Education
 
Research Publications
 

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To Prospective Students:

If you are interested in Ph.D. level study in Educational Psychology with a specialization in literacy acquisition, you should consider our program here at the CUNY Graduate Center. We are housed in a lovely 9-story building located on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan across the street from the Empire State Building.

These are some facts about our program:

Postitions Held
 
Professional Activities
 
 
 
 
 
 

Degree.

We are strictly a doctoral-level program. We do not offer a seperate masters-level program (although there is a procedure for those who wish an enroute masters degree). Our program is open to students who hold either a bachelors or masters degree. The program involves completing 60 course credits and a dissertation leading to a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology. Students who enter with a Masters Degree may receive some credit for equivalent gradulate-level courses taken. Students may enroll full-time (at least 9 credits per semester) or part-time (6 credits per semester). We prepare students to design, conduct, and evaluate basic and applied research on topics in educational psychology.

Students enter our program in one of four areas of concentration: (1) learning development and instruction, (2) statistics and measurement, (3) policy analysis, and (4) school psychology. Students interested in literacy enroll in the area of learning development and instruction. Through courses and student mentoring, I offer preparation in the conduct of reseach on literacy.

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Entry Requirements.

Applicants need to submit GRE scores and letters of recommendation. They need to have taken a course in Statistics and a course in Experimental Psychology before they begin the program. Students may be admitted without these courses but they must complete them before beginning their first semester. In our program, students acquire a strong background in the conduct of quantitative experimental research, so having this background is essential.

We admit about 20 students per year. Our students range in age from early 20s to 50s. About half are full-time and half are part-time. Some come with degrees and backgrounds in education and teaching. Some come with degrees in psychology and experience conducting research. Some come with degrees in Linguistics or English. Some are new to the field.

 

Course Offerings.

Our courses are offered in the late afternoon and evening, 4:15 to 6:15 and 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Monday through Thursday. After the first year, course enrollments tend to be small. In literacy courses, there may be 5 to 8 students.

My courses focus onlearning, development and instruction in literacy, and how to design, conduct, and evaluate research in this field. I teach the following courses:

  • U862: Theory and Research in Early Literacy: The Preschool and Early Elementary School Years
  • U863: Theory and Research on Literacy in School Settings: Grades 3 through 12
  • U865: Theory and Research on Reading Disabilities.

Other members of our faculty offer courses of interest to literacy students including Professors Barry Zimmerman (self-regulated learning), Carol Tittle (teacher knowledge, beliefs and practices) and Helen Johnson (language development). Professors at other CUNY campuses are available to work with students, including Professors Gaoyin Qian (Lehman College) and Hollis Scarborough (Brooklyn College).

Courses in language and literacy are also offered in other programs at the Graduate Center. In the Speech and Hearing program, there are faculty members with expertise on topics of interest to literacy students, including language development, specific language impairment, neurolinguistics, aphasia, and bilingualism. These courses are offered by Professors James Jenkins, Loraine Obler, Richard Schwartz, Valerie Shafer, and Winifred Strange. In the Psychology program, Professor Colette Daiute offers courses in writing and qualitative research. In Linguistics, faculty include Professors Diane Bradley specializing in psycholinguistics and Ricardo Otheguy in bilingualism.

Also we have a consortial arrangement with Columbia Teachers College, Fordham University, and the Psychology Department at NYU. After the first year, if there are elective courses that extend students' doctoral work in their area of specialization and if these courses are not offered at CUNY, students may enroll through CUNY in courses at these universities. For students in literacy, this offers the possibility of coursework with Professors Dolores Perin and Joanna Williams at Columbia TC, and Joanna Uhry at Fordham.

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Job Prospects After Graduation.

The program prepares students to conduct research and to teach at the college level. While in the program, students may receive experience serving as research assistants on projects at the Center for Advanced Studies in Education (CASE), a research institute at the Gradute Center. They may be hired to teach undergraduate courses in educational psychology at one of the CUNY campuses. They may work with a professor as a Writing Fellow. Upon completing the program, students are eligible for various types of positions including faculty positions in colleges or universities and research positions at foundations or governmental agencies or in school districts.

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Doctoral Dissertations of Students I Have Supervised.

I have chaired dissertations for the following students:

1. Dr. Daphne Greenberg: Are word reading processes the same or different in adult literacy students and 3rd-5th graders matched for reading level? (published in Journal of Educational Psychology, 1997, 89, 262-288)

2. Dr. Barbara DiBenedetto: Analogous nonword reading in normal and poor decoders at a variety of word recognition levels: Comparisons before and after remedial intervention.

3. Dr. Howard Fogel: Teaching elementary students who speak Black English Vernacular to write in Standard English: Effects of dialect transformation practice. (published in Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2000, 25, 212-235)

4. Dr. Maria Castiglioni-Spalten: Phonemic awareness instruction: Contribution of articulatory segmentation to novice beginners' reading and spelling. (published in Scientific Studies of Reading, 2003, 7, 25-52)

5. Dr. Alpana Bhattacharya: Graphosyllabic analysis helps adolescent struggling readers read and spell words. (to be published in Journal of Learning Disabilities)

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Education

  • B.S. (1963) in Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle.
  • M.A. (1966) in Psychology at San Francisco State University
  • Ph.D. (1970) in Educational Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Dissertation: The Relevance of Some Linguistic Variables in Noun Pair Learning and Prompted Sentence Recall: An Anatomy of the Deep Structure

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    Research Publications
           
    1. 1969 Ehri, L. C. and Rohwer, W. D., Jr. Verb facilitation of paired-associated learning as a function of syntactic and semantic relations. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 8, 773-781.
     
  2. 1972 Ehri, L. C. Sentence contexts as facilitators of noun pair learning in children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 14, 242-256.
 
  3. 1972 Ehri, L. C. and Richardson, D. Antonym adjective contexts and the facilitation of noun-pair learning in children. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 11, 387-397.
 
  4. 1973 Ehri, L. C. Language production, comprehension, and seriation capabilities in children. Proceedings, 81st Annual Convention, American Psychological Association, 8(1), 81-82.
 
  5. 1974 Ehri, L. C. Deep and surface structure in children's sentence learning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 17, 18-36.
 
  6. 1974 Ehri, L. C. and Ammon, P. R. Children's comprehension of comparative sentence transformations. Child Development, 45, 512- 516.
     
  7. 1974 Ehri, L. C. and Muzio, I. M. Cognitive style and reasoning about speed. Journal of Educational Psychology, 66, 569-571.
 
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  8. 1974 Ehri, L. C. and Muzio, I. M. The influence of verb meanings on memory for adjectives. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 13, 265-271.
 
  9. 1974 Ehri, L. C. and Wilce, L. S. Research in brief: Printed intonation cues and reading in children. Visible Language, 8, 265-274.
 
  10. 1975 Ehri, L. C. Word consciousness in readers and prereaders. Journal of Educational Psychology, 67, 204-212.
 
  11. 1976 Lefever, M. M. and Ehri, L. C. The relationship between field independence and sentence disambiguation ability. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 5, 99-106.
 
  12. 1976 Ehri, L. C. Do words really interfere in naming pictures? Child Development, 47, 502-505.
 
  13. 1976 Ehri, L. C. Comprehension and production of adjectives and seriation. Journal of Child Language, 3, 369-384.
 
  14. 1976 Ehri, L. C. Word learning in beginning readers and prereaders: Effects of form class and defining contexts. Journal of Educational Psychology, 68, 832-842.
 
  15. 1977 Ehri, L. C. Do adjectives and functors interfere as much as nouns in naming pictures? Child Development, 48, 697-701.
 
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  16. 1978 Ehri, L. C. Beginning reading from a psycholinguistic perspective: Amalgamation of word identities. In F. B. Murray (Ed.), The Development of the Reading Process, International Reading Association Monograph (No. 3). Newark, Del.: International Reading Association, pp. 1-33.
 
  17. 1979 Ehri, L. C. Linguistic insight: Threshold of reading acquisition. In T. G. Waller and G. E. MacKinnon (Eds.), Reading Research: Advances in Theory and Practice Volume 1. New York: Academic Press, pp. 63-114.
 
  18. 1979 Ehri, L. C., and Wilce, L. S. Does word training increase or decrease interference in a stroop task? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 27, 352-364.
 
  19. 1979 Ehri, L. C. and Wilce, L. S. The mnemonic value of orthography among beginning readers. Journal of Educational Psychology, 71, 26-40.
 
  20. 1979 Ehri, L. C. and Roberts, K. T. Do beginners learn printed words better in contexts or in isolation? Child Development, 50, 675-685.
 
  21. 1980 Shaffer, T. M. and Ehri, L. C. Seriators' and non-seriators' comprehension of comparative adjective forms. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 9, 187-204.
 
  22. 1980 Ehri, L. C. and Ryan, E. B. Performance of bilinguals in a picture-word interference task. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 9, 285-302.
 
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  23. 1980 Ehri, L. C. The development of orthographic images. In U. Frith (Ed.), Cognitive Processes in Spelling. London, England: Academic Press, pp. 311-338.
 
  24. 1980 Ehri, L. C. The role of orthographic images in learning printed words. In J. Kavanagh and R. Venezky (Eds.), Orthography, Reading and Dyslexia. Baltimore, MD: University Park Press, pp. 155-170.
 
  25. 1980 Ehri, L. C. and Wilce, L. S. Do beginners learn to read function words better in sentences or in lists? Reading Research Quarterly, 15, 451-476.
 
  26. 1980 Ehri, L. C. and Galanis, A. H. Teaching children to comprehend propositions conjoined by "before" and "after." Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 30, 308-324.
 
  27. 1980 Ehri, L. C. and Wilce, L. S. The influence of orthography on readers' conceptualization of the phonemic structure of words. Applied Psycholinguistics, 1, 371-385.
 
  28. 1982 Ehri, L. C. and Wilce, L. S. Recognition of spellings printed in lower and mixed case: Evidence for orthographic images. Journal of Reading Behavior, 14, 219-230.
 
  29. 1982 Ehri, L. C. and Wilce, L. S. The salience of silent letters in children's memory for word spellings. Memory and Cognition, 10, 155-166.
 
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  30. 1983 Ehri. L. C. Summaries and a critique of five studies related to letter-name knowledge and learning to read. In L. Gentile, M. Kamil, & J. Blanchard (Eds.), Reading Research Revisited. Columbus, Ohio: C. E. Merrill, pp. 131-153.
 
  31. 1983 Ehri, L. C. and Wilce, L. S. Development of word identification speed in skilled and less skilled beginning readers. Journal of Educational Psychology, 75, 3-18.
 
  32. 1983 Roberts, K. T. and Ehri, L. C. Effects of two types of letter rehearsal on skilled and less skilled beginning readers' word memory. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 8, 375-390.
 
  33. 1983 Hohn, W. E. and Ehri, L. C. Do alphabet letters help prereaders acquire phonemic segmentation skill? Journal of Educational Psychology, 75, 752-762.
 
  34. 1984 Ehri, L. C. How orthography alters spoken language competencies in children learning to read and spell. In J. Downing and R. Valtin (Eds.), Language Awareness and Learning to Read. New York: Springer Verlag, pp. 119-147.
 
  35. 1984 Drake, D. A. & Ehri, L. C. Spelling acquisition: Effects of pronouncing words on memory for their spellings. Cognition and Instruction, 1, 297-320.
 
  36. 1984 Ehri, L. C., Deffner, N. D. & Wilce, L. S. Pictorial mnemonics for phonics. Journal of Educational Psychology, 76, 880-893.
 
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  37. 1984 Masonheimer, P. E., Drum, P. A., & Ehri, L. C. Does environmental print identification lead children into word reading? Journal of Reading Behavior, 16, 257-72.
 
  38. 1985 Ehri, L. C. Effects of printed language acquisition on speech. In D. R. Olson, N. G. Torrance, & A. Hildyard (Eds.), Literacy, Language and Learning: The Nature and Consequences of Reading and Writing. Cambridge University Press, pp. 333-367.
 
  39. 1985 Ehri, L. C., & Wilce, L. S. Movement into reading: Is the first stage of printed word learning visual or phonetic? Reading Research Quarterly, 1985, 20, 163-179.
 
  40. 1986 Ehri, L. C., & Wilce, L. S. The influence of spellings on speech: Are alveolar flaps /d/ or /t/? In D. Yaden & S. Templeton (Eds.) Metalinguistic Awareness and Beginning Literacy. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, pp. 101-114.
 
  41. 1986 Ehri, L. C. Sources of difficulty in learning to spell and read. In M. L. Wolraich & D. Routh (Eds.), Advances in developmental and behavioral pediatrics. Greenwich, Conn.: Jai Press, pp. 121-195.
 
  42. 1987 Ehri, L. C., & Wilce, L. S. Cipher versus cue reading: An experiment in decoding acquisition. Journal of Educational Psychology, 79, 3-13.
 
  43. 1987 Ehri, L. C., & Wilce, L. S. Does learning to spell help beginners learn to read words? Reading Research Quarterly, 22, 47-65.
 
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  44. 1987 Ehri, L. C. Learning to read and spell words. Journal of Reading Behavior, 19, 5-31.
 
  45. 1987 Ehri, L. C., Wilce, L. S. & Taylor, B. B. Children's categorization of short vowels in words and the influence of spellings. Merrill Palmer Quarterly, 33, 393-421.
 
  46. 1988 Ehri, L. C., Gibbs, A., & Underwood, T. L. Influence of errors on learning the spellings of English words. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 13, 236-253.
 
  47. 1989 Ehri, L. C. Movement into word reading and spelling: How spelling contributes to reading. In J. Mason (Ed.), Reading/Writing Connections. Boston, MA: Allyn Bacon, pp. 65-81.
 
  48. 1989 Tierney, R., Caplan, R., Ehri, L., Healy, M. K., & Hurdlow, M. Writing and reading working together. In A. H. Dyson (Ed.), Collaboration through Writing and Reading. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, pp. 169-209.
 
  49. 1989 Ehri, L. C. The development of spelling knowledge and its role in reading acquisition and reading disability. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 22, 356-365.
 
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  50. 1989 Ehri, L. C. Learning to read and spell words. In L. Rieben & C. Perfetti (Eds.), L'apprenti lecteur--Apports experimentaux et implications pedagogique. Neuchatel: Nelachaux et Niestle.
 
  51. 1990 Scott, J. A., & Ehri, L. C. Sight word reading in prereaders: Use of logographic vs. alphabetic access routes. Journal of Reading Behavior, 22, 149-166.
 
  52. 1990 Ehri, L. C. Development of the ability to read words. In R. Barr, M. L. Kamil, P. B. Mosenthal, & P. D. Pearson (Eds.), Handbook of Reading Research (Volume II) (pp. 383-417). New York: Longman.
 
  53. 1991 Maul, B. D. K., & Ehri, L. C. Memory for spellings in normal and dysgraphic spellers: Do dysgraphics spell by ear but not eye? In R. M. Joshi (Ed.), Written Language Disorders (pp. 25-42). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
 
  54. 1991 Ehri, L. C. Learning to read and spell words. In L. Rieben & C. Perfetti (Eds.), Learning to Read: Basic Research and its Implications (pp. 57-73). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. (English translation of #50)
 
  55. 1991 Ehri, L. C. The development of reading and spelling in children: An overview. In M. Snowling & M. Thomson (Eds.), Dyslexia: Integrating Theory and Practice (pp. 63-79). London, England: Whurr Publishers.
 
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  56. 1991 Ehri, L. C., & J. Sweet. Fingerpoint-reading of memorized text: What enables beginners to process the print? Reading Research Quarterly, 26, 442-462.
 
  57. 1992 Ehri, L. C., & Robbins, C., Beginners need some decoding skill to read words by analogy. Reading Research Quarterly, 27, 12-26.
 
  58. 1992 Ehri, L. C. Reconceptualizing the development of sight word reading and its relationship to recoding. In P. Gough, L. C. Ehri, & R. Treiman (Eds.), Reading Acquisition (pp. 107-143). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
 
  59. 1992 Gough, P., Ehri, L. C., & Treiman, R. (Eds.), Reading Acquisition. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
 
  60. 1992 Ehri, L. C. Review and commentary: Stages of spelling development. In S. Templeton & D. Bear (Eds.), Development of Orthographic Knowledge and the Foundations of Literacy: A Memorial Festschrift for Edmund H. Henderson (pp. 307-332). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.
 
  61. 1993 Ehri, L. C. Becoming an alphabetic reader is not easy for emergent readers. International Journal of Educational Research, 19, 607-616.
 
  62. 1993 Ehri, L. C. How English orthography influences phonological knowledge as children learn to read and spell. In R. J. Scholes (Ed.), Literacy and language analysis (pp. 21-43). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
 
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  63. 1993 Ehri, L. C. Commentary on the Bielefeld Screening Battery to predict reading and spelling difficulties. In H. Grimm & H. Skowronek (Eds.), Language Acquisition Problems and Reading Disorders: Aspects of Diagnosis and Intervention (pp. 243-255). Berlin, Germany: Walter deGruyter.
 
  64. 1994 Ehri, L. C. Development of the ability to read words: Update. In R. Ruddell, M. Ruddell, & H. Singer (Eds.), Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading (4th edition) (pp. 323-358). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
 
  65. 1994 Robbins, C. & Ehri, L. C. Listening to stories helps kindergartners learn new vocabulary words. Journal of Educational Psychology, 86, 54-64.
 
  66. 1995 Ehri, L. C. Teachers need to know how word reading processes develop to teach reading effectively to beginners. In C. Hedley, T. Antonacci, & M. Rabinowitz (Eds.), Literacy and Thinking: The Mind at Work in the Classroom (pp. 167-188). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
 
  67. 1995 Ehri, L. C. & Williams, J. P. Learning to read and learning to teach reading. In F. Murray (Ed.), The Teacher Educator's Handbook: Building a Knowledge Base for the Preparation of Teachers (pp. 231-244). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
 
    68. 1995 Ehri, L. C. Teachers need to know how word reading processes develop to teach reading effectively to beginners. In P. Owen & P. Pumfrey (Eds.), Children Learning to Read: International Concerns (Volume 1, pp. 9-31). Hampshire, England: Falmer Press. (same as #66)
   
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    69. 1995 Ehri, L. C. Phases of development in learning to read words by sight. Journal of Research in Reading, 18, 116-125.
 
  70. 1995 Ehri, L. C. & Saltmarsh, J. Beginning readers outperform older disabled readers in learning to read words by sight. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 7, 295-326.
 
  71. 1996 Ehri, L. C. Researching how children learn to read: Controversies in science are not like controversies in practice. In G. Brannigan (Ed.), The Enlightened Educator: Research Adventures in the Schools (pp. 179-204). Boston, MA: McGraw Hill.
 
  72. 1996 Ehri, L. C. & Chun, C. How alphabetic/phonemic knowledge facilitates text processing in emergent readers. In J. Shimron (Ed.), Literacy and Education. (pp. 69-93). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.
 
  73. 1996 Gaskins, I., Ehri, L., Cress, C., O'Hara, C., & Donnelly, K. Procedures for word learning: Making discoveries about words. The Reading Teacher, 50, 312-327. (Reprinted in Teaching Struggling Readers, R. Allington (Ed.), International Reading Association, 1998).
 
  74. 1996 Gaskins, I., Ehri, L., Cress, C., O'Hara, C., & Donnelly, K. Analyzing words and making discoveries about the alphabetic system: Activities for beginning readers. Language Arts, 74, 172-184.
 
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  75. 1996 Ehri, L. C. Sight Word reading and its development in beginning readers of English and German. In E. Witruk & G. Friedrich (Eds.), Padagogische Psychologie im Streit um ein neues Selbstverstandnis. Landau, Germany: Verlag Empirische Padagogik.
 
  76. 1997 Ehri, L. Phonemic awareness and learning to read. Literacy Development in Young Children, 4, pp. 2-3.
 
  77. 1997 Ehri, L. Sight word learning in normal readers and dyslexics. In B. Blachman (Ed.), Foundations of Reading Acquisition and Dyslexia: Implications for Early Intervention (pp. 163-189). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
 
  78. 1997 Greenberg, D., Ehri, L, & Perin, D. Are word reading processes the same or different in adult literacy students and 3rd-5th graders matched for reading level? Journal of Educational Psychology, 89, 262-288.
 
  79. 1997 Ehri, L. Learning to read and learning to spell are one and the same, almost. In C. Perfetti, L. Rieben, & Fayol, M. (Eds.), Learning to Spell: Research, Theory and Practice Across Languages(pp. 237-269). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
 
  80. 1998 Ehri, L. C. Word reading by sight and by analogy in beginning readers. In C. Hulme & M. Joshi (Eds.), Reading and Spelling: Development and Disorders (pp. 87-112). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
 
  81. 1998 Ehri, L. Grapheme-phoneme knowledge is essential for learning to read words in English. In J. Metsala & L. Ehri (Eds.), Word Recognition in Beginning Literacy (pp. 3-40). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
 
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  82. 1998 Metsala, J. & Ehri, L. (Eds.), Word Recognition in Beginning Literacy. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
 
  83. 1998 Ehri, L., & McCormick, S. Phases of word learning: Implications for instruction with delayed and disabled readers. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 14, 135-163.
 
  84. 1998 Scarborough, H., Ehri, L., Olson, R., & Fowler, A. The fate of phonemic awareness beyond the elementary school years. Scientific Study of Reading, 2, 115-142.
 
  85. 1998 Ehri, L. Research on learning to read and spell: A personal-historical perspective. Scientific Study of Reading, 2, 97-114.
 
  86. 1999 Ehri, L. & Sofer, A. Graphophonemic awareness: Development in elementary students. Scientific Study of Reading, 3, 1-30.
 
  87. 1999 Ehri, L. Phases of development in learning to read words. In J. Oakhill & R. Beard (Eds.), Reading Development and the Teaching of Reading: A Psychological Perspective (pp. 79-108). Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.
 
  88. 1999 Ehri, L. The unobtrusive role of words in reading text. In A. Watson, & L. Giorcelli (Eds.), Accepting the Literacy Challenge. Sydney, AU: Scholastic.
 
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  89. 1999 Uhry, J. & Ehri, L. Children's reading acquisition. In D. Wagner, R. Venezky, & B. Street (Eds.), Literacy: An International Handbook. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
 
  90. 1999 Uhry, J. & Ehri, L. Ease of segmenting two- and three-phoneme words in kindergarten: Rime cohesion or vowel salience? Journal of Educational Psychology, 91, 594-603.
 
  91. 2000 Fogel, H. & Ehri, L. Teaching elementary students who speak Black English Vernacular to write in Standard English: Effects of dialect transformation practice. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 25, 212-235.
 
  92. 2000 Gaskins, I., Ehri, L., Cress, C., O'Hara, C. & Donnelly, K. Kinder werden Worterdetektive oder: Wie Amerikanische Kinder Lesen lernen. In H. Naegele und R. Valtin (Eds.), LRS in den Klassen 1-10: Handbuch der Lese-Rechtschreib -Schwierigkeiten (pp. 93-98). Beltz Verlag: Weinheim und Basel. (Germany)
 
  93. 2000 Ehri, L. Learning to read and learning to spell: Two sides of a coin. Topics in Language Disorders, 20, 19-36.
 
  94. 2001 Ehri, L., Nunes, S., Willows, D., Schuster, B.,Yaghoub-Zadeh, Z., & Shanahan, T. Phonemic awareness instruction helps children learn to read: Evidence from the National Reading Panel's meta-analysis. Reading Research Quarterly, 36, 250-287.
 
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  95. 2001 Ehri, L. & Stahl, S. Beyond smoke and mirrors: Putting out the fire. Phi Delta Kappan, 83, 17-20.
 
  96. 2001 Ehri, L., Nunes, S., Stahl, S., & Willows, D. Systematic phonics instruction helps students learn to read: Evidence from the National Reading Panel's meta-analysis. Review of Educational Research, 71, 393-447.
 
  97. 2002 Ehri, L. Reading processes, acquisition, and instructional implications. In G. Reid & J. Wearmouth (Eds.), Dyslexia and literacy: Theory and practice (pp. 167-185). West Sussex, UK: John Wiley.
 
  98. 2002 Greenberg, D., Perin, D. & Ehri, L. Do adult literacy students make the same word-reading and spelling errors as children matched forword-reading age? Scientific Studies of Reading, 6, 221-243.
     
    99. 2002 Ehri, L. & Nunes, S. The role of phonemic awareness in learning to read. In A. Farstrup & S. Samuels (Eds.), What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction (3rd edition) (pp. 110-139). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
 
  100. 2003 Castiglioni-Spalten, M. & Ehri, L. Phonemic awareness instruction: Contribution of articulatory segmentation to novice beginners' reading and spelling. Scientific Studies of Reading , 7, 25-52.
 
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  101. 2002 Ehri, L. Phases of acquisition in learning to read words and implications for teaching. British Journal of Educational Psychology: Monograph Series, 1, 7-28.
 
  102. in press Cardoso-Martins, C., Rodrigues, L. & Ehri, L. Place of environmental print in reading development: Evidence from nonliterate adults. Scientific Study of Reading.
 
  103. in press Ehri, L. Alphabetic instruction helps students learn to read: Results of two meta-analyses. In M. Joshi (Ed.), Literacy Acquisition, Assessment and Intervention.
 
  104. in press Ehri, L. Teaching phonics and phonemic awareness: An explanation of the National Reading Panel Meta-analysis. In P. McCardle & V. Chhabrav (Eds.), The Voice of Evidence: Bringing Research to the Classroom. Baltimore, MD: Brookes.
 
  105. in press Ehri, L. & Snowling, M. Developmental variation in word recognition. In B. Shulman, K. Apel, B. Ehren, E. Silliman, & C. Stone (Eds.), Handbook of Language and Literacy Development and Disorders. New York: Guilford.
 
  106. in press Bhattacharya, A. & Ehri, L. Graphosyllabic analysis helps adolescent struggling readers read and spell words. Journal of Learning Disabilities.
 
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Current Research Grant
 
  2001-04 Field-Initiated Studies research grant from the US Office of Education. Title: Guided repeated oral reading of text: Effects of word enrichment for struggling readers.
   
 
Honors and Awards
 
  2002 Recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award, from the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.
 
  1998 Recipient of Sylvia Scribner Research Award, from American Educational Research Association, Division C.
 
  1998 Elected to Reading Hall of Fame of the International Reading Association.
 
  1998-00 Appointed to the National Reading Panel, commissioned by the US Congress to report on research-based methods of effective reading instruction.
 
  1994-96 Elected to Board of Directors of the National Reading Conference.
 
  1994-96 Elected Vice President of American Educational Research Association, Division C Learning and Instruction.
 
  1993-98 Elected President of Society for the Scientific Study of Reading to serve 2-year terms as President-elect,President, Past President.
 
  1991 Recipient of the Oscar S. Causey Award for Distinguished Research. Given by the National Reading Conference.
 
  1991 Appointed Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology at City University of New York Graduate School.
 
  1989-91 Elected Secretary of Division C Learning and Instruction, American Educational Research Association.
 
  1981 Received the Milton D. Jacobson Award from the International Reading Association for best article in Volume 15 of Reading Research Quarterly, "Do beginners learn to read function words better in sentences or in lists?"
 
  1980 Elected a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Division 15 Educational Psychology.
 
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Positions Held
 
  1997-present Coordinator, Concentration in Language and Literacy, CUNY Graduate Center.
 
  1993-present Appointment to faculty in Speech and Hearing Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center.
 
  August 1991-present Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Program in Educational Psychology, Graduate Center, City University of New York.
 
  1970-1991 Professor, Division of Education, University of California, Davis.
   
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Professional Activities
 
  AFFILIATIONS
 
  American Educational Research Association (AERA)
 
AERA-SIG Basic Research in Reading
 
    American Psychological Association (APA)
   
APA Division 15 Educational Psychology
     
    American Psychological Society
     
    Council for Learning Disabilities
     
    International Reading Association (IRA)
     
    National Reading Conference (NRC)
     
  Psychonomic Society
     
    Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
 
  Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR)
 
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BOARD OF ADVISORY EDITORS
 
  Journal of Educational Psychology (1978-1984; 1990-present)
 
  Reading Research Quarterly (1978-1995; 2001-present)
 
  Journal of Reading Behavior (1984-1993; 1995-1997)
 
  Educational Psychologist (1984-1988)
 
  Review of Research in Education (1984-1988)
 
  National Reading Conference Yearbook (1984-1986)
 
  Learning and Individual Differences (1987-1992)
 
  Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal (1988-present)
 
  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (1997-present)
 
  Learning Disabilities Quarterly (1998-present)
 
  Scientific Study of Reading (2002-present)
 
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July 11, 2003