Rate My Professor Heidi Mesmer

Dr. Mesmer's research has appeared in leading journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, The Educational Researcher, Elementary School Journal, and Early Childhood Research Quarterly. She is the author of several books, including Tools for Matching Readers to Texts: Research-Based Practices (2007), Reading Intervention in the Primary Grades: A Common-Sense Guide to RTI (2014), Teaching Skills for Complex Text: Deepening Reading in the Classroom (Teachers College Press, 2016), Letter Lessons and First Words: Phonics Foundations that Work (Heinemann, 2019), and Alphabetics for Emerging Learners: Building Strong Reading Foundations in PreK (2021). She has written and directed eight grants aimed at improving reading instruction in K-5 classrooms, supported by funding from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation and an American Educational Research Association/Institute of Education Sciences grant. Dr. Mesmer received the Outreach Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech and the Promising Scholar Award from the School of Education. In 2014, she delivered the George Graham Lecture in Reading at the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia. She is regularly called upon by states and professional organizations, such as the International Literacy Association and the State of Maryland, to deliver lectures in her area of expertise.