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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Co‐Creating Multilingual Books with Children to Foster Their Literacies	39
Designing Culturally Responsive Literacy Centers to Include and Go Beyond Skills	15
Connecting Compassion: Empathy's Role in STEM and Literacy Integration	11
Translanguaging Together: Building Bilingual Identities con Nuevos Amigos	10
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Exploring Multicultural Picturebooks With Social–Emotional Themes	10
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Who Is Doing Science? Using Science Texts to Open Spaces that Expand the Voices and Perspectives in Elementary Classrooms	10
Building Bridges: Curating Text Sets to Connect to Learners’ Lives	9
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In This Issue 77:1	9
Count Me In: Exploring Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion through Mathematics and Children's Literature	9
Understanding Literacies in Latinx Families: Teachers Using Home Visits to Reimagine Classroom Practices	8
Dual‐Language Books as a Red Herring: Exposing Language Use and Ideologies	8
Multicomponent Reading Intervention: A Practitioner's Guide	8
In This Issue 76:2	8
Rethinking “Equity Sticks”: Engaging Emergent Bilinguals in Discussing Texts	8
Operationalizing the Access–Voice–Choice Framework for Equitably and Justly Teaching the Language for School Literacy	8
Rethinking Text Features in the Digital Age: Teaching Elementary Students to Navigate Digital Stories, Websites, and Videos	8
Using Strive‐for‐Five Conversations to Strengthen Language Comprehension in Preschool through Grade One	7
Teaching in the Cracks: Using the Three Lenses Framework to Promote Comprehension and Critical Engagement with Global Texts	7
The End Is Only the Beginning: Exploring Endpapers in Picturebook Biographies	7
In This Issue	7
An Asset‐based Practice for Teaching Bilingual Readers	7
Analyzing Representations of Individuals with Disabilities in Picture Books	7

Incorporating Decodable Books into an Early Grades Literacy Curriculum: Tensions and New Learnings from One Teacher	6
“I Don’t Even Know Why This is a Monument”: Exploring Multimodal Making in Early Childhood	6
Comprehension for Emergent Readers: Revisiting the Reading Rope	6
History and Education of the Sacred: Black Girls and Curricular Violence in Literacy Learning	6
Supporting Early Biliteracy in English‐Medium Classrooms: Initiatives for Family Engagement and Instructional Innovations	6
Seeking Middle Ground: Analyzing Running Records From the Top and Bottom	6
Reading, Research and Relationships in a Third‐Grade Virtual Book Club	5
Widening Teachers' Reading Repertoires: Moving beyond a Popular Childhood Canon	5
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Using Literature to Facilitate Restorative Conversations that Foster Conflict Resolution	5
Rejecting Transactional Family–School Partnerships and Enacting More Liberatory Family Literacy Work	5
Engaging with Family Literacy Scholarship: Bearing Witness to Scholars and Families of Color	5
Teaching with Cuentos Combativos: Reading for Decolonial Futures	5
“This Is Crazy…She’s Real”: How Fourth‐Grade Readers Establish Source Authority	5
Bringing Order to the Literacy Development of Black Boys in the Elementary Grades	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
Evidence‐Based Practices to Enliven Integrated Reading‐to‐Writing Instruction	5
Digitally Supported Disciplinary Literacy in Elementary Instruction	5
A Healthy Diet for Beginning Readers: Decodable Texts as Part of a Comprehensive Literacy Program	5
Essential Practices for Engaging Young Children as Writers: Lessons from Expert Early Writing Teachers	5
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Re‐Centering Students and Teachers: Voices from Literacy Clinics	4
From Teacher to Literacy Coach: Negotiating Roles and Learning on the Job	4
A Roadmap for Working with Children Who Are Immigrants or Refugees	4
Translanguaging with Digital, Collaborative Writing: Early Multilingual Composers	4
Making the Move Online: Interactive Read‐Alouds for the Virtual Classroom	4
Big Waves on the Rocky Shore: A Discussion of Reading Policy, Infrastructure, and Implementation in the Era of Science of Reading	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
What Does Culturally Informed Literacy Instruction Look Like?	4
Issue Information	4
When Students Perform at the Below Basic Level on the NAEP: What Does It Mean and What Can Educators Do?	4
Beyond Representation: Using Nonfiction Children's Literature to Address Ableism	4
A Response to our Critics: Agreements, Clarifications, and Children	4
Beyond Labels and Agendas: Research Teachers need to Know about Phonics and Phonological Awareness	4
Storytelling in Multiple Modes: Using Student‐Created Book Trailers to Encourage Development of Visualization Skills	4
Uses and Misuses of Commercial Reading Assessment: An Applied Framework for Decision Making in Grades K through 6	4
An Ode to a State Park: Creating Poetry During a Summer Writing Camp	3
“Hice Zoom Con Mi Abuelita”: What We Can Learn from First and Second Graders' Pandemic Narratives	3
Building on ELA Vocabulary Instruction to Develop Language Resources	3
A Fundamentally Wrong Premise and a Disservice to the Profession: Responding to “… What we Truly Know about the Teaching of Reading”	3
Correction to “In This Issue 77:6”	3
The Collaborative Literacy Coaching Framework for Transformation: Humanizing Prerequisites for Reflective Practitioners	3
Issue Information	3
Better Together: Integrating Content‐Area Curriculum in the Primary Literacy Classroom	3
Emergent Bilinguals’ Use of Word Prediction Software Amid Digital Composing	3
Writing and Reading Connections: A before, during, and after Experience for Critical Thinkers	3
In This Issue 75:3	3
Supporting Emotional Intelligence and Inferential Comprehension Using Character Analysis in Picturebooks	3

Supporting Students' Knowledge Activation before, during, and after Reading	3
A Translanguaging Read‐Aloud	3
Cultivating the Genius Within: A Conceptual Framework for Black Feminist Text Selection	3
Three Strategies for Supporting Elementary Writers through the Practice of Sharing	3
Four‐N‐Framework for Responding to Readers	3
Using Science Texts to Foster Informational Reading Comprehension	3
An Engagement‐Focused Framework for Evaluating Storybooks for Young Children's Science Vocabulary Learning	3
Correction to Black Immigrant Literacies and the Promise of Unbroken Englishes: Five Things every Teacher Should Know and Can Do	3
Examination of Teacher Practices on Student Motivation for Reading	3
A Transnational, Translingual Lens on Curriculum: Supporting Children who are Immigrants and Refugees	3
Reading Engagement Matters! A New Scale to Measure and Support Children's Engagement with Books	3
Refining Literacy Pedagogy through Practitioner Inquiry Partnerships	2
Making Space for Young Children's Embodied Cultural Literacies and Heritage Languages with Dual Language Books	2
Reading Beyond the Book with Primary Sources	2
Using Literacy Instruction to Develop Student Activists	2
Paper Selfies: Centering Students' Identities in Baseline Writing	2
“Why Do You Think That?” Exploring Disciplinary Literacy in Elementary Science, History and Visual Arts	2
iSTART‐Early and Now I Can Read: Effective Reading Strategies for Young Readers	2
Teaching for Social Justice: A Teacher Researcher's Journey and Evolution	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
Picturebook Biography Read‐Alouds and Standards for Mathematical Practice	2
In This Issue 76:6	2
Sharing Power in Read‐Alouds with Emergent Bilingual Students	2
Curriculum and Coaching: Maximizing our Investments in Teaching	2
Efforts to Dismantle Traditional Public Schools: Literacy Consequences for Students	2
How to Organize a Classroom Library to Support Inquiry: 4 Systems that Work	2
Interrogating Young Children's Itineraries for Writing: Promoting Disciplinary Literacy through Personal Digital Inquiry	2
Revisiting Reading Buddies to Support Multilingual Learners and Their Peers	2
Reimagining Discourse in the Classroom	2
“Can We See ur Dog[?]”: Co‐Constructing Virtual Author Visits in the Chat	2
Engaging Kindergarten Writers Through Play Experiences	2
Hope	2
Fostering Multilingual Children’s Language Development through iPad Apps	2
Elementary Literacy Coaching in 2021: What We Know and What We Wonder	2
Scaffolding Expository Reading with Picture Books: Strategies for Comprehending Informational Language	2
How Do We Do It? Planning for a Truly Inclusive Classroom	2
Culturally Sustaining and Translingual Approaches to Teaching Bi/Multilingual Writers	2
The Alphabetic Principle and Concept of Word in Text: Two Priorities for Learners in the Emergent Stage of Literacy Development	2
Click, See, Do: Using Digital Scaffolding to Support Persuasive Writing Instruction for Emerging Bilingual Learners	2
Cherishing Immigrant Parents' Aspiration to Support Multilingual Children's Literacy Development Across Languages	2
Playing With Story Workshop in the Literacy Classroom	2
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The Love of the Book: Students' Text Selection and Their Motivation to Read	2
Supporting Emergent Bilinguals' Reading in the Content Areas	2
Playing with Words: Using Playful Learning Experiences in the Early Childhood Classroom to Build Vocabulary	2
In This Issue 75:2	2
Singing in Preschool Promotes Literacy Development	2
Knowledge to Support Early Educators and Elementary School Teachers' Engagement in Family Literacy and Family Literacy Programs	2
Yes, Charlotte Died: Using Picturebooks to Talk about, Not Avoid, the Topic of Death	2
Teaching English and the Grammatical Use of the Pronoun: Queer(y)ing the Teaching of Writing	2
Making Personal Connections to Words to Increase Early Childhood Vocabulary Learning	2
Language is Identity: Telling and Reading the Right Kinds of Stories	2
Honoring Diverse Cultures Through Family Literacy Approaches That Build Family, School, and Community Partnerships	2
Issue Information	2
Multilingual Learning Inside/Outside the Classroom: Insights from Intra‐Active Events	2
Facilitative Talk: Shaping a Culture of Professional Learning Over Time	2
Elevating Poetry Writing with Southeast Asian Refugee Children's Picture Books	2