OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
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Reading to Dogs as a form of animal‐assisted education: are positive outcomes supported by quality research?	21
Issue Information	16
‘Addressing’ language deficit: valuing children's variational repertories	15
‘Booktuber: promoting reading and literacy in the classroom among Spanish pre‐service teachers through a video review’	14
Oracy and cultural capital: the transformative potential of spoken language	13
What do changes in policy regarding the teaching of phonics since 1995 disclose about successive UK education policymakers' understanding of early reading skills?	12
Teacher authorship as critical self‐reflection and engagement in authentic student writing	12
Children's literacy funds of knowledge in an urban Mexican elementary school: changing the approach	8
Critical multimodal literacy practices in student‐created comics	8
Issue Information	8
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The doctorate unbound: relationality in doctoral literacy research	7
But life goes on: drama classes, Ukrainian refugees, and Icelandic language learning	7
Teaching Key Stage 3 literature: the challenges of accountability, gender and diversity	6
Justice, community and rememory: opening spaces to (R)econoce(R) en colectiva with texts	6
Daybooks: Writers' notebooks reveal the processes, genre choices and reflections of fourth‐grade writers	6
The impact of technology use on adolescents' leisure reading preferences	6
Editorial	6
‘I'm rewriting the law’ when children bring literacy into nursery school	5
The Great Gatsby reimagined: Preservice English teachers' critical reading of the novel and graphic novel	5
Attuning toIn‐the‐Red Frequencieswith/in Readers Workshop	5
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Disrupting language of instruction policy at a classroom level: oracy examples from South Africa and Zambia	5

“We felt that electricity”: writing‐as‐becoming in a high school writing class	5
Teachers' and Black students' views on the incorporation of African American children's literature in an after‐school book club: collaborative and culturally based learning	5
Editorial	4
‘I keep getting TT duds’: Examining sponsorship using algorithmically driven reading recommendations on #BookTok and Webtoons	4
Issue Information	4
Issue Information	4
‘We're very book rich’: The impact of school library services on reading, resourcing and reducing inequality	4
Editorial: The Writing Realities Framework and new directions in writing research, instruction and learning	4
Beyond transparency: more‐than‐human insights into the emergence of young children's language	4
Bending stories, disrupting boundaries: spatial reclamation as literacy practices beyond the rows and rules	4
Native American youth finding self through digital story telling	4
Cultivating critical global citizens through secondary EFL education: a case study of mainland China	4
New directions in writing research, instruction and learning	4
Honouring student repertoires: connecting oracy to “ways of being”	4
‘It's healthy. It's good for you’: Children's perspectives on utilising their autonomy in the writing classroom	4
Flexible phonics: a complementary ‘next generation’ approach for teaching early reading	4
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Oracy for civic voice: Deconstructing practice through classroom vignettes	3
Children Reading for Pleasure in the Digital Age: Mapping Reader Engagement, by NataliaKucirkova and TeresaCremin, 2020. SAGE Publishing. ISBN: 978‐1‐5264‐3663‐4, 185 pages, £26.99 (paperback)	3
‘Let me see it through your eyes’: Teaching grammar‐for‐writing as imaginative embodiment	3
Issue Information	3
Empowering English as an Additional Language students through digital multimodal composing	3
Recognising silence and absence as part of multivocal storytelling in and through picturebooks: migrant learners in South Africa engaging with The Arrival	3
Issue Information	3
‘Be Creative and Have Fun’: elementary‐aged children's digital and embodied composing in science	3
Comprehension across disciplines: A practical framework for reading research	3
Adolescents' perspectives on the barriers to reading for pleasure	3
Decoding, reading and writing: the double helix theory of teaching	3
Writing for wellness: storytelling, care, and reflection in teacher education	2
Critical literacies: Ever‐evolving	2
Chopsticks and clothes: Chinese heritage parents' perspectives on young children's technology use as a tool for language and cultural learning	2
Issue Information	2
Working towards more socially just futures: five areas for transdisciplinary literacies research	2
Oracy and education: perspective shifts and policy tensions	2
How does research reach teachers? An agenda for investigating research mobilities in primary literacy education	2
Embracing the unpredictable effect of one person: an interview with Professor Keri Facer	2
Editorial	2
Editorial	2
Young bilingual students' use of metacognitive strategies to overcome comprehension difficulties when reading in the foreign language	1
Issue Information	1
Editorial	1
Beyond levels and labels: applying self‐determination theory to support readers	1
Untangling the complexity of designing tools to support tangible and digital intercultural story telling in troubled times: a case in point	1
Exploring children's embodied story experiences: a toolkit for research and practice	1
Pre‐service teacher knowledge of children's literature and attitudes to Reading for Pleasure: an international comparative study	1
‘I felt her poems were more like my life’: cultivating BPoC teenagers' writer‐identity through a poet residency	1
Issue Information	1
‘It's like a compass which I use to find direction’: Findings and learning from an evaluation of an App designed to support the teaching of reading comprehension in rural and township schools in South	1
Dreams of time and space: exploring digital literacies through playful transmedia storying in school	1

Writing and reading workshop: impact on reading motivation, reading amount and text comprehension	1
Rethinking the contributions of young people with learning disabilities to iPad storymaking: a new model of distributed authorship	1
Using constructs of ‘good’ writing to develop ‘a voice of one's own’ in the primary school classroom	1
Letter knowledge in light of bilingualism and socioeconomic status	1
An interview with Professor Barbara Comber	1
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What a multi‐institutional collective case study of social annotation data reveals about graduate students' metacognitive reading practices	1
Critical literacy: an approach to child rights education in Uganda and Canada	1