| Cultural variations in the construction of personal narratives: Central American and European American mothers' elicitation styles G Melzi Discourse Processes 30 (2), 153-177, 2000 | 197 | 2000 |
| Defining family engagement among Latino Head Start parents: A mixed-methods measurement development study CM McWayne, G Melzi, AR Schick, JL Kennedy, K Mundt Early Childhood Research Quarterly 28 (3), 593-607, 2013 | 177 | 2013 |
| Narrative elaboration and participation: Two dimensions of maternal elicitation style G Melzi, AR Schick, JL Kennedy Child development 82 (4), 1282-1296, 2011 | 175 | 2011 |
| Variations in maternal narrative styles during book reading interactions G Melzi, M Caspe Narrative inquiry 15 (1), 101-125, 2005 | 145 | 2005 |
| What Should We Expect of Family Literacy? Experiences of Latino Children Whose Parents Participate in an Intergenerational Literacy Project. Literacy Studies Series. JR Paratore, G Melzi, B Krol-Sinclair Order Department, International Reading Association, 800 Barksdale Road, PO …, 1999 | 140 | 1999 |
| Multilingual Children beyond Myths and toward Best Practices. Social Policy Report. Volume 27, Number 4. A McCabe, CS Tamis-LeMonda, MH Bornstein, C Brockmeyer Cates, ... Society for Research in Child Development, 2013 | 133 | 2013 |
| The development of children's oral narratives across contexts A Schick, G Melzi Early Education and Development 21 (3), 293-317, 2010 | 129 | 2010 |
| Ecocultural patterns of family engagement among low-income Latino families of preschool children. CM McWayne, G Melzi, MC Limlingan, A Schick Developmental psychology 52 (7), 1088, 2016 | 109 | 2016 |
| Validation of a culture-contextualized measure of family engagement in the early learning of low-income Latino children. CM McWayne, G Melzi Journal of Family Psychology 28 (2), 260, 2014 | 93 | 2014 |
| Building literacy instruction from children’s sociocultural worlds V Purcell‐Gates, G Melzi, B Najafi, MF Orellana Child Development Perspectives 5 (1), 22-27, 2011 | 73 | 2011 |
| Next directions in measurement of the home mathematics environment: An international and interdisciplinary perspective CB Hornburg, GA Borriello, M Kung, J Lin, E Litkowski, J Cosso, A Ellis, ... Journal of Numerical Cognition 7 (2), 195, 2021 | 70 | 2021 |
| Talking about past emotions: Conversations between Peruvian mothers and their preschool children G Melzi, C Fernández Sex Roles 50, 641-657, 2004 | 70 | 2004 |
| Being brave, being nice: Themes of agency and communion in children’s narratives R Ely, G Melzi, L Hadge, A McCabe Journal of Personality 66 (2), 257-284, 1998 | 65 | 1998 |
| The influence of ethnic match on Latino school-based family engagement K Mundt, A Gregory, G Melzi, CM McWayne Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 37 (2), 170-185, 2015 | 46 | 2015 |
| Spanish diminutives in mother–child conversations G Melzi, KA King Journal of Child Language 30 (2), 281-304, 2003 | 42 | 2003 |
| Print-related practices in low-income Latino homes and preschoolers’ school-readiness outcomes AR Schick, G Melzi Journal of Early Childhood Literacy 16 (2), 171-198, 2016 | 41 | 2016 |
| Spanish-language narration and literacy: Culture, cognition, and emotion A McCabe, AL Bailey, G Melzi Cambridge University Press, 2008 | 40 | 2008 |
| Shifting boundaries in home and school responsibilities: The construction of home-based literacy portfolios by immigrant parents and their children JR Paratore, A Homza, B Krol-Sinclair, T Lewis-Barrow, G Melzi, R Stergis, ... Research in the Teaching of English 29 (4), 367-389, 1995 | 40 | 1995 |
| Intimacy, imitation and language learning: Spanish diminutives in mother-child conversation K King, G Melzi First language 24 (2), 241-261, 2004 | 36 | 2004 |
| Latino children’s narrative competencies over the preschool years G Melzi, A Schick, E Bostwick Actualidades en psicología 27 (115), 1-14, 2013 | 35 | 2013 |
