OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Early Childhood Literacy is 0. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Young children’s digital literacy practices in the sociocultural contexts of their homes	44
Tuning into ‘fleshy’ frequencies: A posthuman mapping of affect, sound and de/colonized literacies with/in a primary classroom	26
Use of touchscreen technology by 0–3-year-old children: Parents’ practices and perspectives in Norway, Portugal and Japan	25
Literacy and language as material practices: Re-thinking social inequality in young children’s literacies	24
Porous boundaries: Reconceptualising the home literacy environment as a digitally networked space for 0–3 year olds	20
(Re)Thinking children as fully (in)human and literacies as otherwise through (re)etymologizing intervene and inequality	12
Negotiating screen time: A mother’s struggle over ‘no screen time’ with her infant son	11
Disrupting ableism: Strengths-based representations of disability in children’s picture books	10
Playing Minecraft: Young children’s postdigital play	9
Space and practices: Engagement of children under 3 with tablets and televisions in homes in Spain, Sweden and England	8
The impact of COVID-19 on early childhood reading practices	7
Unfolding joy in young children’s literacy practices in a Finnish early years classroom	7
Understanding parents’ conflicting beliefs about children’s digital book reading	7
Prioritizing Pro-Blackness in literacy research, scholarship, and teaching	6
Learning through everyday activities: Improving preschool language and literacy outcomes via family workshops	6
Parent book choices: How do parents select books to share with infants and toddlers with language impairment?	6
“And then it’s my turn”: Negotiating participation in tablet activities in early childhood education and care	5
Teachers’ beliefs about children and children’s literacy development: The mediating role of responsive teaching	5
Conducting racial awareness research with African American children: Unearthing their sociopolitical knowledge through Pro-Black literacy methods	4
Exploring literacy engagement in a significant disability context	4
Identifying anti-Blackness and committing to Pro-Blackness in early literacy pedagogy and research: A guide for child care settings, schools, teacher preparation programs, and researchers	4
Mapping young children’s conceptualisations of the images they encounter in their familiar environments	4
Cognitively challenging talk during shared reading: Effects of parent gender, child gender and relations with story comprehension	4
Book sharing with young children: A study of book sharing in four Australian long day care centres	4
Emergent bilingual students’ use of humour in digital composing: Academic and social work	4

Prison abolition literacies as Pro-Black pedagogy in early childhood education	4
Children’s language play as collaborative improvisations–rethinking paths to literacy	3
Co-participatory multimodal intergenerational storytelling: Preschool children’s relationship with modality creating elder inclusion	3
Beyond the written word: The role of text on preschool teachers’ book sharing styles	3
The elevation of Black Girls’ hair: An analysis of visual representations in Children’s picturebooks	3
Iranian Preschoolers Vocabulary Development: Background Television and Socio-economic status	3
Reading identities across language contexts: The role of language of text and talk for multilingual learners	3
Unboxing care: Constructions of happiness and gratitude in a Brazilian transnational family’s video production in the United States	3
‘Where would you be in the picture?’: Using reader-response with children in primary school	3
“But there is a God”: Teaching Nat Turner in early childhood education	2
Early literacy and child wellbeing: Exploring the efficacy of a home-based literacy intervention on children’s foundational literacy skills	2
Assessment, accountability, and access: Constrained skill mastery as instructional gatekeeper	2
Inventing expert in English language arts: A case study of critical literacies in a third grade classroom	2
Morning circle as a community of practice: Co-teachers’ transmodality in a dual language bilingual education preschool classroom	2
Special issue Children under three at home: The place of digital media in their literacy practices	2
In their own words: Parents’ voices about a book-provision program	2
“The dinosaurs are so loud; they can’t sleep. Zzzz”: Supporting emergent bilingual children’s reading comprehension through digital literacies	2
An animated story created by a group of young children	2
Children’s digital play as collective family resilience in the face of the pandemic	2
The effects of e-stories on preschoolers’ narrative comprehension, retelling and reading attitudes among poor and good comprehenders	2
Designing on the page: Composing picturebooks in a Kevin Henkes author study	2
From stories at bedtime to a love of reading: Parental practices and beliefs About reading with infants	2
Mexican-American preschoolers as co-creators of zones of proximal development during retellings of culturally relevant stories: A participatory study	2
‘Like, I’m playing, but with this’. Materialization and affect in early childhood literacy	2
Family learning and working in lockdown: Navigating crippling fear and euphoric joy to support children’s literacy	2
The literacy-enhancing potential of singing versus spoken language in public library storytimes: A text analytics approach	2
@Home collective(ly): Opening doors and doing books with literacy-cast	2
Agency in a first-grade writing workshop: A case study of two composers	2
‘School is light and we are blind’: Afghan refugee parents’/guardians’ beliefs about literacy and language(s)	1
“They never told us that Black is beautiful”: Fostering Black joy and Pro-Blackness pedagogies in early childhood classrooms	1
How family needs informed an early literacy family reading program in multilingual and multicultural Miami-Dade County	1
Encountering the world with voice search: A young immigrant and emergent bilingual child’s digital literacies	1
‘But dragons don’t exist, do they?’: Preschoolers’ focus in determining whether a picturebook is a non-fiction or not	1
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	1
Enhancing preschool-kindergarten educator implementation of interactive reading instruction through vertical teaming: Exploring collaborative enquiry	1
Lockdown literacies	1
Emancipating early childhood literacy curricula: Pro-Black teaching in K-3 classrooms	1
Such tiny signs on a piece of paper. Engagement with language and literacy in a multilingual preschool class	1
The meaning-making in kindergarten children’s visual narrative compositions	1
H is for Hurricane, M is for Maria: Supporting literacy in Vieques	1
Depictions of teachers and teacher practices in picture books about starting kindergarten	1
Valuing and supporting the complex writing processes of emergent writers	1
“Connecting to themselves and the world”: Engaging young children in read-alouds with social-emotional learning	1
Do third grade students from low-income families have access to ‘just right’ books? Results from a home visit study	1
“Confidence” problems and literacy coaching: How a suburban kindergarten divided “good” and “bad” teachers in the accountability shove-down	1
School quality matters: A multilevel analysis of school effects on the early reading achievement of Black girls	1
How they got to Sesame Street: Children’s Television Workshop’s appropriation of advertising tactics for effective childhood literacy education	1
Making the invisible visible: Young Chinese heritage language learners’ reading process through retrospective miscue analysis	1
Early literacy experiences of two children during Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa: A semi- ethnographic study	1
Children’s spaces in pages: Examining spatiality in COVID-19-themed children’s books	1

‘Look, my name! I can write’ – Literacy events and digital technology in the preschool atelier	1
Teresa Cremin, Rosie Flewitt, Ben Mardell and Joan Swann (eds), Storytelling in early childhood enriching language, literacy and classroom culture	0
Awakening the essence of classroom community building	0
Becky Parry, Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant (eds), Literacy, media, technology: Past, present and future	0
Toddlers as active, competent story weavers: Lexie’s story	0
Professional Book Recommendation	0
Letter from the Guest Editors	0
Centering Black women’s ways of knowing: A review of critical literacies research in early childhood	0
Early childhood educators as language teachers: Preschool teachers’ understanding of language learning and language use	0
Us and them: Individual and group perceptions and attitudes about Reach Out and Read implementation in one pediatric clinic	0
Kim Lenters and Mairi McDermott, Affect, embodiment and place in critical literacy assembling theory and practice	0
“WE LOST THE PLADO”: Tracing privileged school literacies in one kindergarten classroom	0
Patterns in naturally occurring interactions in early writing instruction	0
Book selection behaviors of emergent readers	0
Book Review: Arts Integration in Diverse K-5 Classrooms: Cultivating Literacy Skills and Conceptual Understanding. By Liane Brouillette	0
Literacy assessment in the early years of schooling in an era of neoliberalism	0
Exploring young children’s argumentation as a heuristic intertextual practice	0
Copresence in authoring conversations	0
Book Review: Literacies that Move and Matter: Nexus Analysis for Contemporary Childhoods	0
Professional Book Recommendation	0
Animated movements, animating methods: An interaction geography approach to space and affect in early childhood education	0
Research on early literacy in Reggio and Montessori classrooms: A scoping review	0
Judith T Lysaker, Before words: wordless picture books and the development of reading in young children	0
Storybook reading: Literacy and teacher knowledge in early childhood education	0
Christopher Schulte (ed.), Ethics and Research With Young Children: New Perspectives.	0
Katy transforms storytime: Culturally sustaining pedagogy in the community	0
In memoriam— William H. Teale, Ed.D. (1947–2018)	0
Creating books and sustaining Indigenous languages with two Atayal communities	0
Michel Vandenbroeck (ed.), Constructions of neuroscience in early childhood education	0
Literacies in early childhood: Foundations for equity and quality	0
Professional Book Recommendation	0
Librarians’ book talks for children: An opportunity for widening reading practices?	0
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Pedagogy	0
ERRATUM to “Tuning into ‘fleshy’ frequencies: A posthuman mapping of affect, sound and de/colonized literacies with/in a primary classroom”	0
Scoring Running Records: Complexities and affordances	0
Book Review: Developing habits of noticing in literacy and language classrooms	0
Supporting vocabulary development in a culturally/linguistically diverse family	0
Professional Book Recommendation	0
Trilingualism and reading difficulty in a third (school) language: A case study of an at-risk child in French immersion	0
Children’s communicative capital: Promoting inclusive storying in a diverse preschool community through critical participatory action research	0
‘That’s my dumb husband’: Wild things, battle bears and heteronormative responses in an afterschool reading club	0
Towards a model of word reading acquisition in children from low income backgrounds	0
Letter from the Guest Editors	0
Children's Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	0
Twenty-five books a day: Literacy events in subsidized childcare	0
Creating opportunities to read and build fluency at home	0
In memoriam Michele Knobel, PhD (1966–2021)	0
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	0
Paradigmatic fronteras: Troubling available design and translanguaging with sticky literacy	0
Tina Bruce, Lynn McNair and Jane Whinnett (eds), Putting storytelling at the heart of early childhood practice: A reflective guide for early years practitioners	0
Finding Max’s wolves: Literacy socialization in the margins	0
Dana Frantz Bentley and Marianna Souto-Manning, Pre-K stories: Playing with authorship and integrating curriculum in early childhood	0
I talk normal: A comparative case study of raciolinguistic socialization in preschool	0
Daniel R Meier, Supporting Literacies for Children of Color: A Strength-Based Approach to Preschool Literacy	0
Family literacies as peacemaking: Representations in Children’s literature	0
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	0
Book Review: Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action	0
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	0
Playing the story: Learning with young Children’s in/visible composing collaborations in outdoor narrative play	0
Toward more motivationally-supportive reading interventions: Learning from young DLLs’ perceptions of English-only programmes	0
The home literacy environment as a venue for fostering bilingualism and biliteracy: The case of an Ethio-Norwegian bilingual family in oslo, Norway	0
Book Review: Story workshop: New possibilities for young writers	0
Supporting literacies for children of color: A strength-based approach to pre-school literacy by (Daniel R )	0
Creating a web of multimodal resources: Examining meaning-making during a children’s book project in a multilingual community	0
From story to book: Discourse analysis between teacher and student in the creation of a culturally relevant text	0
Book Review: Research methods for early childhood education	0
Book Reviews: Working with young children in museums: Weaving theory and practice	0
“You need to learn the spelling”: Playing, teaching, and learning of trilingual siblings with refugee backgrounds	0
Early literacy going digital: Interweaving formal and informal literacy learning through digital media	0
Revolutionary love: A framework for teaching in pursuit of a multiracial democracy	0
Literacy learning in infant-toddler programs: Practice architectures as a lens for examining educator pedagogy	0
Exploring the value of family shared reading with young people who have Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD)	0
Book Review: Linguistic Justice: Black language, literacy, identity, and pedagogy. By April Baker Bell	0
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy: Special Issue Translanguaging pedagogies	0
Special issue series (two issues) of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy	0
2019 Thank you to our Reviewers	0
Who will remember?: Racial identity and civil rights literature for Black children at Freedom School	0
Representing tradition: The construction of culturally-specific visual narratives in Chinese picture books and hand scroll paintings	0
Rebecca Rogers, Reclaiming powerful literacies: New horizons for critical discourse analysis	0