| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Matthew Effects in Reading: Some Consequences of Individual Differences in the Acquisition of Literacy | Reading Research Quarterly | 1986 | 3,304 |
| 2 | Toward an Interactive-Compensatory Model of Individual Differences in the Development of Reading Fluency | Reading Research Quarterly | 1980 | 1,098 |
| 3 | Developing a Sociocritical Literacy in the Third Space | Reading Research Quarterly | 2008 | 1,031 |
| 4 | Phonemic Awareness Instruction Helps Children Learn to Read: Evidence From the National Reading Panel's Meta-Analysis | Reading Research Quarterly | 2001 | 950 |
| 5 | Effects of an Extensive Program for Stimulating Phonological Awareness in Preschool Children | Reading Research Quarterly | 1988 | 943 |
| 6 | Working toward third space in content area literacy: An examination of everyday funds of knowledge and Discourse | Reading Research Quarterly | 2004 | 806 |
| 7 | How Many Words Are There in Printed School English? | Reading Research Quarterly | 1984 | 787 |
| 8 | Introduction to response to intervention: What, why, and how valid is it? | Reading Research Quarterly | 2006 | 741 |
| 9 | Exposure to Print and Orthographic Processing | Reading Research Quarterly | 1989 | 715 |
| 10 | Learning Words from Context | Reading Research Quarterly | 1985 | 696 |
| 11 | The Nonword Reading Deficit in Developmental Dyslexia: A Review | Reading Research Quarterly | 1992 | 663 |
| 12 | Does Phoneme Awareness Training in Kindergarten Make a Difference in Early Word Recognition and Developmental Spelling? | Reading Research Quarterly | 1991 | 641 |
| 13 | What Classroom Observations Reveal About Reading Comprehension Instruction | Reading Research Quarterly | 1978 | 611 |
| 14 | Differential Effects of Home Literacy Experiences on the Development of Oral and Written Language | Reading Research Quarterly | 1998 | 602 |
| 15 | Dimensions of Children's Motivation for Reading and Their Relations to Reading Activity and Reading Achievement | Reading Research Quarterly | 1999 | 565 |
| 16 | The Validity and Reliability of Phonemic Awareness Tests | Reading Research Quarterly | 1988 | 555 |
| 17 | Growth in Reading and How Children Spend Their Time Outside of School | Reading Research Quarterly | 1988 | 536 |
| 18 | Use of Top-Level Structure in Text: Key for Reading Comprehension of Ninth-Grade Students | Reading Research Quarterly | 1980 | 519 |
| 19 | Exploring the online reading comprehension strategies used by sixth-grade skilled readers to search for and locate information on the Internet | Reading Research Quarterly | 2007 | 507 |
| 20 | Words as Tools: Learning Academic Vocabulary as Language Acquisition | Reading Research Quarterly | 2012 | 493 |
| 21 | 3.6 Minutes per Day: The Scarcity of Informational Texts in First Grade | Reading Research Quarterly | 2000 | 481 |
| 22 | Children's Attitudes toward Reading: A National Survey | Reading Research Quarterly | 1995 | 456 |
| 23 | Closing the gap: Addressing the vocabulary needs of English-language learners in bilingual and mainstream classrooms | Reading Research Quarterly | 2004 | 456 |
| 24 | Reinterpreting the development of reading skills | Reading Research Quarterly | 2005 | 455 |
| 25 | Vocabulary Acquisition from Listening to Stories | Reading Research Quarterly | 1989 | 449 |
| 26 | Long-Term Effects of Preschool Teachers' Book Readings on Low-Income Children's Vocabulary and Story Comprehension | Reading Research Quarterly | 1994 | 449 |
| 27 | Modeling the effects of intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, amount of reading, and past reading achievement on text comprehension between U.S. and Chinese students | Reading Research Quarterly | 2004 | 442 |
| 28 | Relations of the home literacy environment (HLE) to the development of reading-related abilities: A one-year longitudinal study | Reading Research Quarterly | 2002 | 435 |
| 29 | Children's Emergent Reading of Favorite Storybooks: A Developmental Study | Reading Research Quarterly | 1985 | 412 |
| 30 | Discrepancy Definitions of Reading Disability: Has Intelligence Led Us Astray? | Reading Research Quarterly | 1991 | 377 |
| 31 | Predicting Dyslexia From Kindergarten: The Importance of Distinctness of Phonological Representations of Lexical Items | Reading Research Quarterly | 1998 | 368 |
| 32 | Metalinguistic Abilities and Beginning Reading | Reading Research Quarterly | 1988 | 361 |
| 33 | Promoting Conceptual Change in Science: A Comparative Meta-Analysis of Instructional Interventions from Reading Education and Science Education | Reading Research Quarterly | 1993 | 357 |
| 34 | Stories, Coupons, and the TV Guide: Relationships Between Home Literacy Experiences and Emergent Literacy Knowledge | Reading Research Quarterly | 1996 | 353 |
| 35 | Aligning Theory and Assessment of Reading Fluency: Automaticity, Prosody, and Definitions of Fluency | Reading Research Quarterly | 2010 | 338 |
| 36 | Access to Print in Low‐Income and Middle‐Income Communities: An Ecological Study of Four Neighborhoods | Reading Research Quarterly | 2001 | 333 |
| 37 | Naming Speed and Reading: The Contribution of the Cognitive Neurosciences | Reading Research Quarterly | 1991 | 327 |
| 38 | Home Literacy: Opportunity, Instruction, Cooperation and Social-Emotional Quality Predicting Early Reading Achievement | Reading Research Quarterly | 1998 | 327 |
| 39 | Intelligence, Cognitive Skills, and Early Reading Progress | Reading Research Quarterly | 1984 | 315 |
| 40 | Movement into Reading: Is the First Stage of Printed Word Learning Visual or Phonetic? | Reading Research Quarterly | 1985 | 315 |
| 41 | Language proficiency and reading ability in first- and second-language learners | Reading Research Quarterly | 2003 | 314 |
| 42 | The reading strategies of bilingual Latina/o students who are successful English readers: Opportunities and obstacles | Reading Research Quarterly | 1996 | 312 |
| 43 | The Cooperative Research Program in First-Grade Reading Instruction | Reading Research Quarterly | 1967 | 304 |
| 44 | Assessing Readability | Reading Research Quarterly | 1974 | 299 |
| 45 | A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Reading Comprehension | Reading Research Quarterly | 1979 | 284 |
| 46 | The Effectiveness and Ease of Implementation of an Academic Vocabulary Intervention for Linguistically Diverse Students in Urban Middle Schools | Reading Research Quarterly | 2010 | 284 |
| 47 | The Influence of Classroom Contexts on Young Children's Motivation for Literacy | Reading Research Quarterly | 1995 | 270 |
| 48 | Instant messaging, literacies, and social identities | Reading Research Quarterly | 2005 | 270 |
| 49 | Literacy and Identity: Examining the Metaphors in History and Contemporary Research | Reading Research Quarterly | 2009 | 264 |
| 50 | Effects of Repeated Reading on Second-Grade Transitional Readers' Fluency and Comprehension | Reading Research Quarterly | 1987 | 263 |
