OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Reading Teacher is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Co‐Creating Multilingual Books with Children to Foster Their Literacies	48
Designing Culturally Responsive Literacy Centers to Include and Go Beyond Skills	18
Who Is Doing Science? Using Science Texts to Open Spaces that Expand the Voices and Perspectives in Elementary Classrooms	17
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Exploring Multicultural Picturebooks With Social–Emotional Themes	15
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Count Me In: Exploring Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion through Mathematics and Children's Literature	10
Engaging with Family Literacy Scholarship: Bearing Witness to Scholars and Families of Color	10
Rethinking Text Features in the Digital Age: Teaching Elementary Students to Navigate Digital Stories, Websites, and Videos	9
Building Bridges: Curating Text Sets to Connect to Learners’ Lives	9
Dual‐Language Books as a Red Herring: Exposing Language Use and Ideologies	9
Better Together: Integrating Content‐Area Curriculum in the Primary Literacy Classroom	9
Reading Engagement Matters! A New Scale to Measure and Support Children's Engagement with Books	9
Rethinking “Equity Sticks”: Engaging Emergent Bilinguals in Discussing Texts	9
In This Issue 77:1	9
Multicomponent Reading Intervention: A Practitioner's Guide	8
Understanding Literacies in Latinx Families: Teachers Using Home Visits to Reimagine Classroom Practices	8
Operationalizing the Access–Voice–Choice Framework for Equitably and Justly Teaching the Language for School Literacy	8
In This Issue 76:2	8
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In This Issue	7
An Asset‐based Practice for Teaching Bilingual Readers	7
The End Is Only the Beginning: Exploring Endpapers in Picturebook Biographies	7
Incorporating Decodable Books into an Early Grades Literacy Curriculum: Tensions and New Learnings from One Teacher	6

Bringing Order to the Literacy Development of Black Boys in the Elementary Grades	6
Analyzing Representations of Individuals with Disabilities in Picture Books	6
Supporting Early Biliteracy in English‐Medium Classrooms: Initiatives for Family Engagement and Instructional Innovations	6
Using Strive‐for‐Five Conversations to Strengthen Language Comprehension in Preschool through Grade One	6
“I Don’t Even Know Why This is a Monument”: Exploring Multimodal Making in Early Childhood	6
Seeking Middle Ground: Analyzing Running Records From the Top and Bottom	6
Teaching in the Cracks: Using the Three Lenses Framework to Promote Comprehension and Critical Engagement with Global Texts	6
Comprehension for Emergent Readers: Revisiting the Reading Rope	5
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Using Literature to Facilitate Restorative Conversations that Foster Conflict Resolution	5
Examining Power in Picturebook Biographies	5
Rejecting Transactional Family–School Partnerships and Enacting More Liberatory Family Literacy Work	5
Reading, Research and Relationships in a Third‐Grade Virtual Book Club	5
Widening Teachers' Reading Repertoires: Moving beyond a Popular Childhood Canon	5
Beyond Representation: Using Nonfiction Children's Literature to Address Ableism	5
Evidence‐Based Practices to Enliven Integrated Reading‐to‐Writing Instruction	5
Sing and Play Your Way to Reading: Building Emergent Literacy Skills in Infants and Toddlers Through Music	5
The Class Podcast: Reimagining the Literary Essay to Honor Student Identity and Agency	5
Digitally Supported Disciplinary Literacy in Elementary Instruction	5
Teaching with Cuentos Combativos: Reading for Decolonial Futures	5
A Response to our Critics: Agreements, Clarifications, and Children	4
Big Waves on the Rocky Shore: A Discussion of Reading Policy, Infrastructure, and Implementation in the Era of Science of Reading	4
Cultivating the Genius Within: A Conceptual Framework for Black Feminist Text Selection	4
Storytelling in Multiple Modes: Using Student‐Created Book Trailers to Encourage Development of Visualization Skills	4
Re‐Centering Students and Teachers: Voices from Literacy Clinics	4
From Teacher to Literacy Coach: Negotiating Roles and Learning on the Job	4
Beyond Labels and Agendas: Research Teachers need to Know about Phonics and Phonological Awareness	4
A Roadmap for Working with Children Who Are Immigrants or Refugees	4
When Students Perform at the Below Basic Level on the NAEP: What Does It Mean and What Can Educators Do?	4
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Students as Partners: Using an Equity‐Oriented Critical Assessment Practices (CAPS) Approach in Reading to Empower Students and Inform Instruction	4
Issue Information	4
What Does Culturally Informed Literacy Instruction Look Like?	4
Supporting Emotional Intelligence and Inferential Comprehension Using Character Analysis in Picturebooks	3
A Translanguaging Read‐Aloud	3
The Collaborative Literacy Coaching Framework for Transformation: Humanizing Prerequisites for Reflective Practitioners	3
Uses and Misuses of Commercial Reading Assessment: An Applied Framework for Decision Making in Grades K through 6	3
Making the Move Online: Interactive Read‐Alouds for the Virtual Classroom	3
Examination of Teacher Practices on Student Motivation for Reading	3
A Healthy Diet for Beginning Readers: Decodable Texts as Part of a Comprehensive Literacy Program	3
An Engagement‐Focused Framework for Evaluating Storybooks for Young Children's Science Vocabulary Learning	3
Connecting Compassion: Empathy's Role in STEM and Literacy Integration	3
Issue Information	3
Translanguaging with Digital, Collaborative Writing: Early Multilingual Composers	3
Correction to Black Immigrant Literacies and the Promise of Unbroken Englishes: Five Things every Teacher Should Know and Can Do	3
History and Education of the Sacred: Black Girls and Curricular Violence in Literacy Learning	3
Supporting Students' Knowledge Activation before, during, and after Reading	3
Building on ELA Vocabulary Instruction to Develop Language Resources	3
A Transnational, Translingual Lens on Curriculum: Supporting Children who are Immigrants and Refugees	3
Issue Information	3

Correction to “In This Issue 77:6”	3
In This Issue 75:3	3
Essential Practices for Engaging Young Children as Writers: Lessons from Expert Early Writing Teachers	3
Translanguaging Together: Building Bilingual Identities con Nuevos Amigos	3
Engaging Kindergarten Writers Through Play Experiences	2
The Alphabetic Principle and Concept of Word in Text: Two Priorities for Learners in the Emergent Stage of Literacy Development	2
The Love of the Book: Students' Text Selection and Their Motivation to Read	2
Click, See, Do: Using Digital Scaffolding to Support Persuasive Writing Instruction for Emerging Bilingual Learners	2
Making Personal Connections to Words to Increase Early Childhood Vocabulary Learning	2
Hope	2
Fostering Multilingual Children’s Language Development through iPad Apps	2
In This Issue 76:6	2
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Issue Information	2
“Hice Zoom Con Mi Abuelita”: What We Can Learn from First and Second Graders' Pandemic Narratives	2
Learning Through Modes of Signification at an Early Childhood Level in Kenya	2
Culturally Sustaining and Translingual Approaches to Teaching Bi/Multilingual Writers	2
Scaffolding Expository Reading with Picture Books: Strategies for Comprehending Informational Language	2
In This Issue 75:2	2
Interrogating Young Children's Itineraries for Writing: Promoting Disciplinary Literacy through Personal Digital Inquiry	2
Yes, Charlotte Died: Using Picturebooks to Talk about, Not Avoid, the Topic of Death	2
Paper Selfies: Centering Students' Identities in Baseline Writing	2
Teaching English and the Grammatical Use of the Pronoun: Queer(y)ing the Teaching of Writing	2
Elementary Literacy Coaching in 2021: What We Know and What We Wonder	2
iSTART‐Early and Now I Can Read: Effective Reading Strategies for Young Readers	2
Revisiting Reading Buddies to Support Multilingual Learners and Their Peers	2
Sharing Power in Read‐Alouds with Emergent Bilingual Students	2
Four‐N‐Framework for Responding to Readers	2
How to Organize a Classroom Library to Support Inquiry: 4 Systems that Work	2
A Fundamentally Wrong Premise and a Disservice to the Profession: Responding to “… What we Truly Know about the Teaching of Reading”	2
Writing and Reading Connections: A before, during, and after Experience for Critical Thinkers	2
Synchronous Paired Oral Reading Techniques: Supporting Developing Readers in Connected Text	2
Honoring Diverse Cultures Through Family Literacy Approaches That Build Family, School, and Community Partnerships	2
Language is Identity: Telling and Reading the Right Kinds of Stories	2
Centering Black Girls and Families' Digital Engagement, Reading (Literacies), Writing, and Interpretation of Multimodal Texts	2
Playing With Story Workshop in the Literacy Classroom	2
Using Literacy Instruction to Develop Student Activists	2
“Why Do You Think That?” Exploring Disciplinary Literacy in Elementary Science, History and Visual Arts	2
How Do We Do It? Planning for a Truly Inclusive Classroom	2
Supporting Emergent Bilinguals' Reading in the Content Areas	2
Sounds of Silence: Sharing Wordless Picturebooks in the Classroom	2
“No More Strategy of the Week”: Considerations for Connecting Comprehension Instruction Back to the Book	2
Refining Literacy Pedagogy through Practitioner Inquiry Partnerships	2
Multilingual Learning Inside/Outside the Classroom: Insights from Intra‐Active Events	2
Knowledge to Support Early Educators and Elementary School Teachers' Engagement in Family Literacy and Family Literacy Programs	2
Teaching for Social Justice: A Teacher Researcher's Journey and Evolution	2
Reimagining Discourse in the Classroom	2
Three Strategies for Supporting Elementary Writers through the Practice of Sharing	2
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Singing in Preschool Promotes Literacy Development	2
Reading Beyond the Book with Primary Sources	2
Playing with Words: Using Playful Learning Experiences in the Early Childhood Classroom to Build Vocabulary	2