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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Disrupting ableism: Strengths-based representations of disability in children’s picture books	16
Parent book choices: How do parents select books to share with infants and toddlers with language impairment?	13
Playing Minecraft: Young children’s postdigital play	12
The impact of COVID-19 on early childhood reading practices	11
Teachers’ beliefs about children and children’s literacy development: The mediating role of responsive teaching	10
Unfolding joy in young children’s literacy practices in a Finnish early years classroom	8
Book sharing with young children: A study of book sharing in four Australian long day care centres	6
Prioritizing Pro-Blackness in literacy research, scholarship, and teaching	6
Cognitively challenging talk during shared reading: Effects of parent gender, child gender and relations with story comprehension	6
Learning through everyday activities: Improving preschool language and literacy outcomes via family workshops	6
“And then it’s my turn”: Negotiating participation in tablet activities in early childhood education and care	6
Conducting racial awareness research with African American children: Unearthing their sociopolitical knowledge through Pro-Black literacy methods	5
“They never told us that Black is beautiful”: Fostering Black joy and Pro-Blackness pedagogies in early childhood classrooms	5
Children’s digital play as collective family resilience in the face of the pandemic	5
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	5
Prison abolition literacies as Pro-Black pedagogy in early childhood education	5
Unboxing care: Constructions of happiness and gratitude in a Brazilian transnational family’s video production in the United States	4
Exploring literacy engagement in a significant disability context	4
From stories at bedtime to a love of reading: Parental practices and beliefs About reading with infants	4
The elevation of Black Girls’ hair: An analysis of visual representations in Children’s picturebooks	4
Playing the story: Learning with young Children’s in/visible composing collaborations in outdoor narrative play	4
School quality matters: A multilevel analysis of school effects on the early reading achievement of Black girls	3
Beyond the written word: The role of text on preschool teachers’ book sharing styles	3
Iranian Preschoolers Vocabulary Development: Background Television and Socio-economic status	3
Children’s language play as collaborative improvisations–rethinking paths to literacy	3

Agency in a first-grade writing workshop: A case study of two composers	3
‘Like, I’m playing, but with this’. Materialization and affect in early childhood literacy	3
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	3
The effects of e-stories on preschoolers’ narrative comprehension, retelling and reading attitudes among poor and good comprehenders	3
Morning circle as a community of practice: Co-teachers’ transmodality in a dual language bilingual education preschool classroom	3
Co-participatory multimodal intergenerational storytelling: Preschool children’s relationship with modality creating elder inclusion	3
Family learning and working in lockdown: Navigating crippling fear and euphoric joy to support children’s literacy	3
The literacy-enhancing potential of singing versus spoken language in public library storytimes: A text analytics approach	3
Reading identities across language contexts: The role of language of text and talk for multilingual learners	3
Designing on the page: Composing picturebooks in a Kevin Henkes author study	2
An animated story created by a group of young children	2
Encountering the world with voice search: A young immigrant and emergent bilingual child’s digital literacies	2
Early literacy experiences of two children during Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa: A semi- ethnographic study	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
Early literacy going digital: Interweaving formal and informal literacy learning through digital media	2
Assessment, accountability, and access: Constrained skill mastery as instructional gatekeeper	2
@Home collective(ly): Opening doors and doing books with literacy-cast	2
How they got to Sesame Street: Children’s Television Workshop’s appropriation of advertising tactics for effective childhood literacy education	2
“But there is a God”: Teaching Nat Turner in early childhood education	2
Depictions of teachers and teacher practices in picture books about starting kindergarten	2
Animated movements, animating methods: An interaction geography approach to space and affect in early childhood education	2
The meaning-making in kindergarten children’s visual narrative compositions	1
Making the invisible visible: Young Chinese heritage language learners’ reading process through retrospective miscue analysis	1
Towards a model of word reading acquisition in children from low income backgrounds	1
“Connecting to themselves and the world”: Engaging young children in read-alouds with social-emotional learning	1
Enhancing preschool-kindergarten educator implementation of interactive reading instruction through vertical teaming: Exploring collaborative enquiry	1
Lockdown literacies	1
Such tiny signs on a piece of paper. Engagement with language and literacy in a multilingual preschool class	1
How family needs informed an early literacy family reading program in multilingual and multicultural Miami-Dade County	1
Awakening the essence of classroom community building	1
“WE LOST THE PLADO”: Tracing privileged school literacies in one kindergarten classroom	1
H is for Hurricane, M is for Maria: Supporting literacy in Vieques	1
Children’s spaces in pages: Examining spatiality in COVID-19-themed children’s books	1
Valuing and supporting the complex writing processes of emergent writers	1
“Confidence” problems and literacy coaching: How a suburban kindergarten divided “good” and “bad” teachers in the accountability shove-down	1
‘School is light and we are blind’: Afghan refugee parents’/guardians’ beliefs about literacy and language(s)	1
Judith T Lysaker, Before words: wordless picture books and the development of reading in young children	1
Centering Black women’s ways of knowing: A review of critical literacies research in early childhood	1
Children’s communicative capital: Promoting inclusive storying in a diverse preschool community through critical participatory action research	1
‘But dragons don’t exist, do they?’: Preschoolers’ focus in determining whether a picturebook is a non-fiction or not	1
‘Look, my name! I can write’ – Literacy events and digital technology in the preschool atelier	1
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	1
Emancipating early childhood literacy curricula: Pro-Black teaching in K-3 classrooms	1
The home literacy environment as a venue for fostering bilingualism and biliteracy: The case of an Ethio-Norwegian bilingual family in oslo, Norway	1
‘That’s my dumb husband’: Wild things, battle bears and heteronormative responses in an afterschool reading club	1
Teresa Cremin, Rosie Flewitt, Ben Mardell and Joan Swann (eds), Storytelling in early childhood enriching language, literacy and classroom culture	0
Professional Book Recommendation	0
Creating opportunities to read and build fluency at home	0
Us and them: Individual and group perceptions and attitudes about Reach Out and Read implementation in one pediatric clinic	0

Special issue series (two issues) of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy	0
Supporting vocabulary development in a culturally/linguistically diverse family	0
Twenty-five books a day: Literacy events in subsidized childcare	0
Book review: Toward a BlackBoyCrit pedagogy black boys: Male teachers, and early childhood classroom practices	0
Family literacies as peacemaking: Representations in Children’s literature	0
Copresence in authoring conversations	0
The balance of Spanish and English child-directed text in bilingual picture books	0
Literacy learning in infant-toddler programs: Practice architectures as a lens for examining educator pedagogy	0
Toddlers as active, competent story weavers: Lexie’s story	0
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	0
Storybook reading: Literacy and teacher knowledge in early childhood education	0
Book Review: Developing habits of noticing in literacy and language classrooms	0
Exploring teacher candidates’ discursive shifts in translanguaging pedagogies during literacy instruction	0
Emergent bilingual preschoolers’ verbal and embodied engagement behaviors in read aloud	0
Professional Book Recommendation	0
Bridging the Self’s worlds: Young girls’ creative TikTok expressions of multimodal literacy during Covid-19	0
I talk normal: A comparative case study of raciolinguistic socialization in preschool	0
Promoting emergent literacy in preschool through extended discourse: Covert translanguaging in a Mandarin immersion environment	0
Finding Max’s wolves: Literacy socialization in the margins	0
Interactions with new-to-teacher language resources: Supporting translingual composing in a multilingual elementary classroom	0
Book Review: Consumable reading and children’s literature: Food, taste and material interactions	0
Book Review: Linguistic Justice: Black language, literacy, identity, and pedagogy. By April Baker Bell	0
Cultivating translanguaging spaces: Young emergent bilingual children’s toy unboxing play	0
Letter from the Guest Editors	0
Who will remember?: Racial identity and civil rights literature for Black children at Freedom School	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
Book Review: Literacies that Move and Matter: Nexus Analysis for Contemporary Childhoods	0
Scoring Running Records: Complexities and affordances	0
Literacies in early childhood: Foundations for equity and quality	0
Translanguaging and early childhood literacy: Themes and possibilities for theory, pedagogy, and policy	0
Book Reviews: Working with young children in museums: Weaving theory and practice	0
Lessons learned from remote, early-literacy instruction	0
Toward more motivationally-supportive reading interventions: Learning from young DLLs’ perceptions of English-only programmes	0
Exploring young children’s argumentation as a heuristic intertextual practice	0
Creating books and sustaining Indigenous languages with two Atayal communities	0
Trilingualism and reading difficulty in a third (school) language: A case study of an at-risk child in French immersion	0
Book Review: Nordic Childhoods in the Digital Age: Insights into Contemporary Research on Communication, Learning and Education	0
Professional Book Recommendation	0
Translanguaging space through pointing gestures: Multilingual family literacy at a science museum	0
Supporting literacies for children of color: A strength-based approach to pre-school literacy by (Daniel R )	0
Patterns in naturally occurring interactions in early writing instruction	0
“It is a lovely gift to get from the public health nurse”: Public health nurse perspectives on involvement in an infant book gifting scheme	0
Letter from the Guest Editors	0
Writing experiences in early childhood classrooms where children made higher language gains	0
Book Review: Teaching Essential Literacy Skills in the Early Years Classroom: A Guide for Students and Teachers	0
Windows & mirrors but mostly windows: Early childhood administrators view on diverse books	0
Katy transforms storytime: Culturally sustaining pedagogy in the community	0
Daniel R Meier, Supporting Literacies for Children of Color: A Strength-Based Approach to Preschool Literacy	0
Literacy assessment in the early years of schooling in an era of neoliberalism	0
Paradigmatic fronteras: Troubling available design and translanguaging with sticky literacy	0
Revolutionary love: A framework for teaching in pursuit of a multiracial democracy	0
Research on early literacy in Reggio and Montessori classrooms: A scoping review	0
Following the sounds of children’s “voices”: A researcher’s portfolio	0
Exploring the value of family shared reading with young people who have Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD)	0
Book Review: Story workshop: New possibilities for young writers	0
Book Review: Arts Integration in Diverse K-5 Classrooms: Cultivating Literacy Skills and Conceptual Understanding. By Liane Brouillette	0
Early childhood educators as language teachers: Preschool teachers’ understanding of language learning and language use	0
Creating a web of multimodal resources: Examining meaning-making during a children’s book project in a multilingual community	0
Drama during story time supports preschoolers’ understanding of story character feeling states	0
Representing tradition: The construction of culturally-specific visual narratives in Chinese picture books and hand scroll paintings	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 Recommendation	0
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy: Special Issue Translanguaging pedagogies	0
Book Review: Research methods for early childhood education	0
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Pedagogy	0
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	0
Kim Lenters and Mairi McDermott, Affect, embodiment and place in critical literacy assembling theory and practice	0
From story to book: Discourse analysis between teacher and student in the creation of a culturally relevant text	0
Michel Vandenbroeck (ed.), Constructions of neuroscience in early childhood education	0
“You need to learn the spelling”: Playing, teaching, and learning of trilingual siblings with refugee backgrounds	0
Teacher expertise in early childhood instruction: Cross-analysis of language policy and culturally sustaining pedagogies with multilingual learners	0
Names y nombres: Names as gateways to biliteracy in multilingual early childhood classrooms	0
In memoriam Michele Knobel, PhD (1966–2021)	0
‘The toys you sleep with’: Embracing otherwise literacies in early childhood wor(l)ds	0
Book selection behaviors of emergent readers	0