OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Early Childhood Literacy is 1. 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
‘Look, my name! I can write’ – Literacy events and digital technology in the preschool atelier	17
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy: Special Issue Translanguaging pedagogies	14
Teaching and learning indigenous languages: An Atayal book project	10
It’s the talk that counts: a review of how the extra-textual talk of caregivers during shared book reading with young children has been categorized and measured	9
Iranian Preschoolers Vocabulary Development: Background Television and Socio-economic status	9
Emergent bilingual preschoolers’ verbal and embodied engagement behaviors in read aloud	8
Children’s spaces in pages: Examining spatiality in COVID-19-themed children’s books	8
Translanguaging space through pointing gestures: Multilingual family literacy at a science museum	8
Teachers’ beliefs about children and children’s literacy development: The mediating role of responsive teaching	7
Valuing and supporting the complex writing processes of emergent writers	7
Animated movements, animating methods: An interaction geography approach to space and affect in early childhood education	6
Learning through everyday activities: Improving preschool language and literacy outcomes via family workshops	6
Michel Vandenbroeck (ed.), Constructions of neuroscience in early childhood education	6
Children’s digital play as collective family resilience in the face of the pandemic	6
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	5
“It is a lovely gift to get from the public health nurse”: Public health nurse perspectives on involvement in an infant book gifting scheme	5
I talk normal: A comparative case study of raciolinguistic socialization in preschool	5
Storybook reading: Literacy and teacher knowledge in early childhood education	5
The effects of e-stories on preschoolers’ narrative comprehension, retelling and reading attitudes among poor and good comprehenders	4
Prison abolition literacies as Pro-Black pedagogy in early childhood education	4
Portrayals of disabilities in Children’s fiction: A literature review of anglophone, francophone and hispanophone studies	4
“Connecting to themselves and the world”: Engaging young children in read-alouds with social-emotional learning	4
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	4
The literacy-enhancing potential of singing versus spoken language in public library storytimes: A text analytics approach	4
Encountering the world with voice search: A young immigrant and emergent bilingual child’s digital literacies	3

Making the invisible visible: Young Chinese heritage language learners’ reading process through retrospective miscue analysis	3
Exploring teacher candidates’ discursive shifts in translanguaging pedagogies during literacy instruction	3
Family learning and working in lockdown: Navigating crippling fear and euphoric joy to support children’s literacy	3
Exploring young children’s argumentation as a heuristic intertextual practice	3
Drama during story time supports preschoolers’ understanding of story character feeling states	3
Copresence in authoring conversations	3
H is for Hurricane, M is for Maria: Supporting literacy in Vieques	2
Book Reviews: Working with young children in museums: Weaving theory and practice	2
Depictions of teachers and teacher practices in picture books about starting kindergarten	2
From story to book: Discourse analysis between teacher and student in the creation of a culturally relevant text	2
Children’s communicative capital: Promoting inclusive storying in a diverse preschool community through critical participatory action research	2
Assessment, accountability, and access: Constrained skill mastery as instructional gatekeeper	2
Towards a model of word reading acquisition in children from low income backgrounds	2
Children's Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	2
Book Review: Arts Integration in Diverse K-5 Classrooms: Cultivating Literacy Skills and Conceptual Understanding. By Liane Brouillette	2
Twenty-five books a day: Literacy events in subsidized childcare	2
‘But dragons don’t exist, do they?’: Preschoolers’ focus in determining whether a picturebook is a non-fiction or not	2
Literacy learning in infant-toddler programs: Practice architectures as a lens for examining educator pedagogy	2
Writing experiences in early childhood classrooms where children made higher language gains	2
Playing Minecraft: Young children’s postdigital play	2
Trilingualism and reading difficulty in a third (school) language: A case study of an at-risk child in French immersion	2
Early literacy going digital: Interweaving formal and informal literacy learning through digital media	2
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Pedagogy	1
Centering Black women’s ways of knowing: A review of critical literacies research in early childhood	1
Professional Book Recommendation	1
Creating books and sustaining Indigenous languages with two Atayal communities	1
Teaching and learning about family literacy and family literacy programs JLynchESPrins. Teaching and learning about family literacy and family literacy programs, Routledge, Abingdon, 2022; 244 pp.: IS	1
Patterns in naturally occurring interactions in early writing instruction	1
Exploring literacy engagement in a significant disability context	1
Book Review: Story workshop: New possibilities for young writers	1
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	1
Family literacies as peacemaking: Representations in Children’s literature	1
Professional Book Recommendation	1
“But there is a God”: Teaching Nat Turner in early childhood education	1
The balance of Spanish and English child-directed text in bilingual picture books	1
Bridging the Self’s worlds: Young girls’ creative TikTok expressions of multimodal literacy during Covid-19	1
Awakening the essence of classroom community building	1
“The dinosaurs are so loud; they can’t sleep. Zzzz”: Supporting emergent bilingual children’s reading comprehension through digital literacies	1
Creating a web of multimodal resources: Examining meaning-making during a children’s book project in a multilingual community	1
Representing tradition: The construction of culturally-specific visual narratives in Chinese picture books and hand scroll paintings	1
How they got to Sesame Street: Children’s Television Workshop’s appropriation of advertising tactics for effective childhood literacy education	1
‘Like, I’m playing, but with this’. Materialization and affect in early childhood literacy	1
Unfolding joy in young children’s literacy practices in a Finnish early years classroom	1
Cognitively challenging talk during shared reading: Effects of parent gender, child gender and relations with story comprehension	1
“WE LOST THE PLADO”: Tracing privileged school literacies in one kindergarten classroom	1
Early literacy experiences of two children during Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa: A semi- ethnographic study	1
The meaning-making in kindergarten children’s visual narrative compositions	1
“And then it’s my turn”: Negotiating participation in tablet activities in early childhood education and care	1