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2858
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1386

Overview

Timothy Shanahan is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas intersecting psychology and social sciences, with a specialized emphasis on developmental and educational psychology as well as education.

Their scholarly work covers a range of topics including reading and literacy development, writing and handwriting education, text readability and simplification, second language acquisition and learning, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, neuroscience in education, and phonetics and phonology research.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Rijumon Nandy, Majie Fan, Sophia Bautista, Victoria R. Todd, and R. Scott Anderson.

Their research has been published across several venues. The most frequent journals include Reading Research Quarterly, which features two of their papers, and Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, also hosting two publications. Other venues include The Reading Teacher and the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.

  • What Constitutes a Science of Reading Instruction? (2020), Reading Research Quarterly
  • The Science of Reading: Making Sense of Research (2020), The Reading Teacher
  • A Review of the Evidence on Tier 1 Instruction for Readers With Dyslexia (2021), Reading Research Quarterly
  • What role, if any, should phonics play in a middle school or high school? The answer may surprise you (2024), Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
  • HYDROGEN ISOTOPES IN LEAF WAX N-ALKANES AND RIVER WATERS ALONG TWO ELEVATION TRANSECTS IN MONTANA, USA (2024), Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Their body of work contributes to understanding various facets of reading instruction and literacy development, with attention to educational strategies and the science underpinning reading pedagogy. The scope of their studies also extends into interdisciplinary connections between cognitive development and language acquisition.

Best Publications

  • Phonemic Awareness Instruction Helps Children Learn to Read: Evidence From the National Reading Panel's Meta-Analysis

    Linnea C. Ehri;Simone R. Nunes;Dale M. Willows;Barbara Valeska Schuster

  • Teaching Disciplinary Literacy to Adolescents: Rethinking Content- Area Literacy

    Timothy Shanahan;Cy Nthia Shanahan

  • Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners : Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth

    Diane August;Timothy Shanahan

  • Reading and Writing Relations and Their Development

    Jill Fitzgerald;Timothy Shanahan

  • Research on the Reading-Writing Relationship: Interactions, Transactions, and Outcomes

    Robert J. Tierney;Timothy Shanahan

  • What Is Disciplinary Literacy and Why Does It Matter

    Timothy Shanahan;Cynthia Shanahan

  • Reading recovery: An independent evaluation of the effects of an early instructional intervention for at-risk learners.

    Timothy Shanahan;Rebecca Barr

  • Relations among Oral Language, Reading, and Writing Development.

    Timothy Shanahan

  • Analysis of Expert Readers in Three Disciplines: History, Mathematics, and Chemistry

    Cynthia Shanahan;Timothy Shanahan;Cynthia Misischia;Cynthia Misischia

  • Common Core State Standards: A New Role for Writing.

    Timothy Shanahan

  • An Analysis and Comparison of Theoretical Models of the Reading-Writing Relationship.

    Timothy Shanahan;Richard G. Lomax

  • Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades. IES Practice Guide. NCEE 2007-4011.

    Russell Gersten;Scott K. Baker;Timothy Shanahan;Sylvia Linan-Thompson

  • Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade: IES Practice Guide. NCEE 2010-4038.

    Timothy Shanahan;Kim Callison;Christine Carriere;Nell K. Duke

  • Nature of the reading-writing relation: an exploratory multivariate analysis

    Timothy Shanahan

  • Developing Early Literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel. Executive Summary. A Scientific Synthesis of Early Literacy Development and Implications for Intervention.

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Timothy Shanahan

  • Parental Self-Efficacy and Social Support as Predictors of Parenting Practices and Children's Socioemotional Adjustment in Mexican Immigrant Families

    Charles Izzo;Laura Weiss;Timothy Shanahan;Flora Rodriguez-Brown

  • The National Reading Panel Report. Practical Advice for Teachers.

    Timothy Shanahan

  • Effective Literacy Teaching for English-Language Learners

    Timothy Shanahan;Isabel L. Beck

  • Cloze as a Measure of Intersentential Comprehension.

    Timothy Shanahan

  • The National Early Literacy Panel A Summary of the Process and the Report

    Timothy Shanahan;Christopher J. Lonigan

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan B. Neuman
Susan B. Neuman New York University
Isabel L. Beck
Isabel L. Beck University of Pittsburgh
Jill Fitzgerald
Jill Fitzgerald University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Douglas Fisher
Douglas Fisher San Diego State University
Linnea C. Ehri
Linnea C. Ehri City University of New York
Joseph K. Torgesen
Joseph K. Torgesen Florida State University
Nonie K. Lesaux
Nonie K. Lesaux Harvard University
Christopher J. Lonigan
Christopher J. Lonigan Florida State University
Christopher Schatschneider
Christopher Schatschneider Florida State University
Linda S. Siegel
Linda S. Siegel University of British Columbia

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