| Effective teaching in the context of a grade 12 high‐stakes external examination in New South Wales, Australia P Ayres, W Sawyer, S Dinham British Educational Research Journal 30 (1), 141-165, 2004 | 131 | 2004 |
| Starting points: paradigms in mother tongue education W Sawyer, PHM van de Ven | 111 | 2007 |
| Exemplary teachers of students in poverty G Munns, W Sawyer, B Cole Routledge, 2013 | 105 | 2013 |
| Questions of genre W Sawyer, K Watson The place of genre in learning: Current debates, 46-57, 1987 | 94 | 1987 |
| Successful senior secondary teaching PL Ayres, W Sawyer, S Dinham Australian College of Education, 2000 | 59 | 2000 |
| Only Connect... B Doecke, M Howie, WK Sawyer Wakefield Press, 2006 | 56 | 2006 |
| A genealogy of the ‘future’: antipodean trajectories and travels of the ‘21st century learner’ C Williams, S Gannon, W Sawyer Journal of education policy 28 (6), 792-806, 2013 | 46* | 2013 |
| School English, literature and the knowledge-base question L Yates, LML Davies, L Buzacott, B Doecke, P Mead, W Sawyer The Curriculum Journal 30 (1), 51-68, 2019 | 45 | 2019 |
| Motivation and engagement of boys: Evidence-based teaching practices G Munns, L Arthur, T Downes, R Gregson, A Power, W Sawyer, M Singh, ... A report submitted to the Australian Government Department of Education …, 2006 | 44 | 2006 |
| (K)now you see it, (k)now you don’t: literary knowledge in the Australian Curriculum: English LML Davies, W Sawyer Journal of Curriculum Studies 50 (6), 836-849, 2018 | 36 | 2018 |
| Student engagement: The research methodology and the theory G Munns, W Sawyer Exemplary teachers of students in poverty, 14-32, 2013 | 31 | 2013 |
| Robust hope and teacher education policy W Sawyer, M Singh, C Woodrow, T Downes, C Johnston, D Whitton Asia‐Pacific Journal of Teacher Education 35 (3), 227-242, 2007 | 31 | 2007 |
| Just add'progressivism'and stir: how we cook up literacy crises in Australia W Sawyer Only Connect: English Teaching, Schooling and Community,, 2006 | 26 | 2006 |
| The Future of English Teaching Worldwide A Goodwyn, C Durrant, W Sawyer, L Scherff, D Zancanella Routledge, 2019 | 25 | 2019 |
| Knowing practice in English teaching? Research challenges in representing the professional practice of English teachers B Doecke, B Green, A Kostogriz, JA Reid, W Sawyer English teaching: practice and critique 6 (3), 4-21, 2007 | 25 | 2007 |
| Re-Viewing English W Sawyer, KD Watson, E Gold St. Clair Press, 1999 | 24 | 1999 |
| " Whole language" and moral panic in Australia. S Gannon, W Sawyer International Journal of Progressive Education 3 (2), 2007 | 22 | 2007 |
| Literature and literacy: A review of research W Sawyer Language Arts 64 (1), 33-39, 1987 | 20 | 1987 |
| Resisting educational inequality: Reframing policy and practice in schools serving vulnerable communities S Gannon, R Hattam, W Sawyer Routledge, 2018 | 19 | 2018 |
| English teaching in New South Wales since 1971: versions of growth? W Sawyer Changing English 15 (3), 323-337, 2008 | 19 | 2008 |
