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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	29
Portrayals of disabilities in Children’s fiction: A literature review of anglophone, francophone and hispanophone studies	21
Valuing and supporting the complex writing processes of emergent writers	20
Animated movements, animating methods: An interaction geography approach to space and affect in early childhood education	15
Drama during story time supports preschoolers’ understanding of story character feeling states	14
Teaching and learning indigenous languages: An Atayal book project	14
Early literacy experiences of two children during Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa: A semi- ethnographic study	13
Storying worlds: Thinking and doing otherwise in young children’s story pedagogy	12
Beyond words: Teachers’ conceptual negotiation of multimodality and early literacy in Swedish preschool class	10
Encountering the world with voice search: A young immigrant and emergent bilingual child’s digital literacies	10
Book Review: Teaching Essential Literacy Skills in the Early Years Classroom: A Guide for Students and Teachers	9
Letter from the Guest Editors	9
Katy transforms storytime: Culturally sustaining pedagogy in the community	9
A multimodal content analysis of popular early childhood stories and read-alouds on YouTube	8
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	8
Looking more closely at the Children’s Technology Play Space: Bringing space, bodies, materials and knowing together through investigation with microscopes	8
Conducting racial awareness research with African American children: Unearthing their sociopolitical knowledge through Pro-Black literacy methods	8
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	7
The effect of the creative drama method on preschool children’s fairy tale comprehension: The case of “The Bremen Town Musicians”	7
Observers of the world: Primary grade students imagining solutions for broken environmental and social systems	7
Cartographies of voice: Children’s multimodal literacies, agency, and identity in public pedagogy	7
Prison abolition literacies as Pro-Black pedagogy in early childhood education	6
Patterns in naturally occurring interactions in early writing instruction	6
Parents’ perceptions on young children’s online English learning at home: A mixed-methods study	6
Bridging the Self’s worlds: Young girls’ creative TikTok expressions of multimodal literacy during Covid-19	6

Creating a web of multimodal resources: Examining meaning-making during a children’s book project in a multilingual community	5
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Pedagogy	5
Playing Minecraft: Young children’s postdigital play	5
Creating books and sustaining Indigenous languages with two Atayal communities	5
Centering Black women’s ways of knowing: A review of critical literacies research in early childhood	4
Prioritizing Pro-Blackness in literacy research, scholarship, and teaching	4
Revolutionary love: A framework for teaching in pursuit of a multiracial democracy	4
Professional Book Recommendation	4
“The dinosaurs are so loud; they can’t sleep. Zzzz”: Supporting emergent bilingual children’s reading comprehension through digital literacies	4
Daily storytelling routines in informal house schools: A feasibility study in Cloetesville, South Africa	4
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	4
More moments to move: Incorporating creative movement dance into read-alouds	4
The meaning-making in kindergarten children’s visual narrative compositions	4
Book Review: Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action	3
‘The toys you sleep with’: Embracing otherwise literacies in early childhood wor(l)ds	3
Storybook reading: Literacy and teacher knowledge in early childhood education	3
From stories at bedtime to a love of reading: Parental practices and beliefs about reading with infants	3
Disabilities in children’s literature: Is the representation accurate and authentic?	3
Exploring teacher candidates’ discursive shifts in translanguaging pedagogies during literacy instruction	3
Windows & mirrors but mostly windows: Early childhood administrators view on diverse books	3
Morning circle as a community of practice: Co-teachers’ transmodality in a dual language bilingual education preschool classroom	3
“It is a lovely gift to get from the public health nurse ”: Public health nurse perspectives on involvement in an infant book gifting scheme	3
Ready, set, action! Preservice preschool teachers’ journey from preparation to implementation of literacy activities	2
0-3-Year-old children’s digital language and literacy practices at home: A scoping review of the literature	2
Theorizing the Children’s Museum: CHAT, literacies, and the family-centered children’s museum	2
Starting small: Engaging young learners with literacy through multilingual storytelling	2
Children's Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	2
What do Children Value in a K/1 Writing Workshop?	2
Representing tradition: The construction of culturally-specific visual narratives in Chinese picture books and hand scroll paintings	2
“That storrey reminse you to be cefl”: A multimodal analysis of a first-grader’s blended genre composition	2
Teacher expertise in early childhood instruction: Cross-analysis of language policy and culturally sustaining pedagogies with multilingual learners	2
Writing experiences in early childhood classrooms where children made higher language gains	2
Immersive planetarium and science center experiences as catalysts for literacy learning	2
Professional Book Recommendation	2
“You need to learn the spelling”: Playing, teaching, and learning of trilingual siblings with refugee backgrounds	2
Reading picture books with infants and toddlers TorrJane. Reading Picture Books with Infants and Toddlers. London, New York: Routledge, 2023, p. 138, ISBN 9780367768911.	2
Book Review: Nordic Childhoods in the Digital Age: Insights into Contemporary Research on Communication, Learning and Education	1
Names y nombres: Names as gateways to biliteracy in multilingual early childhood classrooms	1
I talk normal: A comparative case study of raciolinguistic socialization in preschool	1
Family learning and working in lockdown: Navigating crippling fear and euphoric joy to support children’s literacy	1
Teacher discourse and agentic generative writing in first grade	1
Toward more motivationally-supportive reading interventions: Learning from young DLLs’ perceptions of English-only programmes	1
Emergent bilingual preschoolers’ verbal and embodied engagement behaviors in read aloud	1
Lessons learned from remote, early-literacy instruction	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
Early literacy going digital: Interweaving formal and informal literacy learning through digital media	1
Awakening the essence of classroom community building	1
Translanguaging and early childhood literacy: Themes and possibilities for theory, pedagogy, and policy	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

Book Review: Literacies that Move and Matter: Nexus Analysis for Contemporary Childhoods	1
Literacies of Indigeneity at the Children’s science museum: Playing with pixels	1
Lockdown literacies	1
Curating childhood—literacy, play, and meaning-making in museum spaces	1
“But there is a God”: Teaching Nat Turner in early childhood education	1
Family literacies as peacemaking: Representations in Children’s literature	1