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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Portrayals of disabilities in Children’s fiction: A literature review of anglophone, francophone and hispanophone studies	23
Animated movements, animating methods: An interaction geography approach to space and affect in early childhood education	19
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	18
Valuing and supporting the complex writing processes of emergent writers	13
Teaching and learning indigenous languages: An Atayal book project	13
Encountering the world with voice search: A young immigrant and emergent bilingual child’s digital literacies	12
Early literacy experiences of two children during Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa: A semi- ethnographic study	12
Storying worlds: Thinking and doing otherwise in young children’s story pedagogy	11
Drama during story time supports preschoolers’ understanding of story character feeling states	11
Letter from the Guest Editors	10
Book Review: Teaching Essential Literacy Skills in the Early Years Classroom: A Guide for Students and Teachers	8
Katy transforms storytime: Culturally sustaining pedagogy in the community	8
School quality matters: A multilevel analysis of school effects on the early reading achievement of Black girls	7
A multimodal content analysis of popular early childhood stories and read-alouds on YouTube	7
Observers of the world: Primary grade students imagining solutions for broken environmental and social systems	7
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	7
Looking more closely at the Children’s Technology Play Space: Bringing space, bodies, materials and knowing together through investigation with microscopes	7
Conducting racial awareness research with African American children: Unearthing their sociopolitical knowledge through Pro-Black literacy methods	7
Cartographies of voice: Children’s multimodal literacies, agency, and identity in public pedagogy	7
“School is light and we are blind”: Afghan refugee parents’/guardians’ beliefs about literacy and language(s)	6
Finding Max’s wolves: Literacy socialization in the margins	6
Parents’ perceptions on young children’s online English learning at home: A mixed-methods study	6
The effect of the creative drama method on preschool Children’s fairy tale comprehension: The case of “The Bremen Town Musicians”	6
Prison abolition literacies as Pro-Black pedagogy in early childhood education	5
Playing Minecraft: Young children’s postdigital play	5

Patterns in naturally occurring interactions in early writing instruction	5
Bridging the Self’s worlds: Young girls’ creative TikTok expressions of multimodal literacy during Covid-19	5
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	5
Creating a web of multimodal resources: Examining meaning-making during a children’s book project in a multilingual community	4
“The dinosaurs are so loud; they can’t sleep. Zzzz”: Supporting emergent bilingual children’s reading comprehension through digital literacies	4
Centering Black women’s ways of knowing: A review of critical literacies research in early childhood	4
Exploring literacy engagement in a significant disability context	4
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Pedagogy	4
Professional Book Recommendation	4
More moments to move: Incorporating creative movement dance into read-alouds	4
The meaning-making in kindergarten children’s visual narrative compositions	4
Creating books and sustaining Indigenous languages with two Atayal communities	4
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	4
Prioritizing Pro-Blackness in literacy research, scholarship, and teaching	4
In their own words: Parents’ voices about a book-provision program	3
Windows & mirrors but mostly windows: Early childhood administrators view on diverse books	3
Revolutionary love: A framework for teaching in pursuit of a multiracial democracy	3
From stories at bedtime to a love of reading: Parental practices and beliefs about reading with infants	3
Morning circle as a community of practice: Co-teachers’ transmodality in a dual language bilingual education preschool classroom	3
Book Review: Linguistic Justice: Black language, literacy, identity, and pedagogy. By April Baker Bell	3
Book Review: Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action	3
Early childhood educators as language teachers: Preschool teachers’ understanding of language learning and language use	3
Storybook reading: Literacy and teacher knowledge in early childhood education	2
Writing experiences in early childhood classrooms where children made higher language gains	2
Professional Book Recommendation	2
0-3-Year-old children’s digital language and literacy practices at home: A scoping review of the literature	2
What do Children Value in a K/1 Writing Workshop?	2
Disabilities in children’s literature: Is the representation accurate and authentic?	2
“It is a lovely gift to get from the public health nurse ”: Public health nurse perspectives on involvement in an infant book gifting scheme	2
Children's Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	2
Representing tradition: The construction of culturally-specific visual narratives in Chinese picture books and hand scroll paintings	2
Starting small: Engaging young learners with literacy through multilingual storytelling	2
‘The toys you sleep with’: Embracing otherwise literacies in early childhood wor(l)ds	2
Exploring teacher candidates’ discursive shifts in translanguaging pedagogies during literacy instruction	2
Ready, set, action! Preservice preschool teachers’ journey from preparation to implementation of literacy activities	2
Immersive planetarium and science center experiences as catalysts for literacy learning	2
“That storrey reminse you to be cefl”: A multimodal analysis of a first-grader’s blended genre composition	2
Literacies of Indigeneity at the Children’s science museum: Playing with pixels	1
I talk normal: A comparative case study of raciolinguistic socialization in preschool	1
Literacy learning in infant-toddler programs: Practice architectures as a lens for examining educator pedagogy	1
Theorizing the Children’s Museum: CHAT, literacies, and the family-centered children’s museum	1
Agency in a first-grade writing workshop: A case study of two composers	1
Book Review: Literacies that Move and Matter: Nexus Analysis for Contemporary Childhoods	1
Empowering agentic literacies: A case study on advocacy and activism in a preschool classroom	1
Becoming a preschool teacher: Developing beliefs about digital literacy seen through a democratic lens	1
Family learning and working in lockdown: Navigating crippling fear and euphoric joy to support children’s literacy	1
Names y nombres: Names as gateways to biliteracy in multilingual early childhood classrooms	1
Teacher expertise in early childhood instruction: Cross-analysis of language policy and culturally sustaining pedagogies with multilingual learners	1
Book Review: Nordic Childhoods in the Digital Age: Insights into Contemporary Research on Communication, Learning and Education	1
The elevation of Black Girls’ hair: An analysis of visual representations in Children’s picturebooks	1

Lockdown literacies	1
Emergent bilingual preschoolers’ verbal and embodied engagement behaviors in read aloud	1
Early literacy going digital: Interweaving formal and informal literacy learning through digital media	1
Reading picture books with infants and toddlers TorrJane. Reading Picture Books with Infants and Toddlers. London, New York: Routledge, 2023, p. 138, ISBN 9780367768911.	1
“You need to learn the spelling”: Playing, teaching, and learning of trilingual siblings with refugee backgrounds	1
Lessons learned from remote, early-literacy instruction	1
Book review: Local literacies in early childhood: Inequalities in place, policy and pedagogy SmithHelen Victoria, Local Literacies in Early Childhood: Inequalities in Place, Policy and Pedagogy, Routl	1