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Sonia Cabell

Sonia Cabell (@soniacabell) is an associate professor of reading education in the School of Teacher Education and the Florida Center for Reading Research at Florida State University. Before receiving her PhD at the University of Virginia, she worked as a second-grade teacher and literacy coach in Oklahoma and Virginia. Cabell’s research focuses on early language and literacy instruction, with a particular interest in preventing reading difficulties in young children. She has authored more than 70 publications, including peer-reviewed articles, books, book chapters, and early childhood language and literacy curricula. She is the lead editor of the Handbook on the Science of Early Literacy from Guilford Press, and coauthor of Literacy Learning for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: Key Practices for Educators from the National Association for the Education of Young Children and Strive-for-Five Conversations from Scholastic.

In 2021, Cabell, along with her colleague Tricia Zucker, was awarded the Diane Lapp & James Flood Professional Collaborator Award from the International Literacy Association. Cabell has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on federally funded research projects totaling approximately $10 million. She has been an advisor or consultant for a variety of national organizations and state departments of education.


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