| African American and Caucasian preschoolers’ use of decontextualized language SM Curenton, LM Justice American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Rockville, MD, 2004 | 348 | 2004 |
| Impact of professional development on preschool teachers’ conversational responsivity and children's linguistic productivity and complexity SB Piasta, LM Justice, SQ Cabell, AK Wiggins, KP Turnbull, SM Curenton Early Childhood Research Quarterly 27 (3), 387-400, 2012 | 272 | 2012 |
| Children's preliteracy skills: Influence of mothers' education and beliefs about shared-reading interactions SM Curenton, LM Justice Early Education and Development 19 (2), 261-283, 2008 | 232 | 2008 |
| The impact of teacher responsivity education on preschoolers' language and literacy skills SQ Cabell, LM Justice, SB Piasta, SM Curenton, A Wiggins, KP Turnbull, ... American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Rockville, MD, 2011 | 226 | 2011 |
| Use of decontextualized talk across story contexts: How oral storytelling and emergent reading can scaffold children's development SM Curenton, MJ Craig, N Flanigan Early education and development 19 (1), 161-187, 2008 | 214 | 2008 |
| Shared‐reading versus oral storytelling: Associations with preschoolers’ prosocial skills and problem behaviours SM Curenton, MJ Craig Early Child Development and Care 181 (1), 123-146, 2011 | 132 | 2011 |
| Effects of racism on child development: Advancing antiracist developmental science IU Iruka, N Gardner-Neblett, NA Telfer, N Ibekwe-Okafor, SM Curenton, ... Annual Review of Developmental Psychology 4 (1), 109-132, 2022 | 105 | 2022 |
| Understanding the landscapes of stories: The association between preschoolers’ narrative comprehension and production skills and cognitive abilities SM Curenton Early Child Development and Care 181 (6), 791-808, 2011 | 99 | 2011 |
| The association between narratives and theory of mind for low-income preschoolers SM Curenton Early Education and Development 15 (2), 124-146, 2004 | 79 | 2004 |
| Don't look away: Embracing anti-bias classrooms IU Iruka, SM Curenton, TR Durden, KA Escayg Gryphon House, 2020 | 77 | 2020 |
| Validity for the Assessing Classroom Sociocultural Equity Scale (ACSES) in early childhood classrooms SM Curenton, IU Iruka, M Humphries, B Jensen, T Durden, SE Rochester, ... Early Education and Development 31 (2), 284-303, 2020 | 67 | 2020 |
| Oral storytelling a cultural art that promotes school readiness SM Curenton YC Young Children 61 (5), 78, 2006 | 64 | 2006 |
| Predictors of mental state understanding in preschoolers of varying socioeconomic backgrounds P Garner, S Curenton, K Taylor International Journal of Behavioral Development 29 (4), 271-281, 2005 | 53 | 2005 |
| Assessing young children's oral narrative skills SM Curenton, TD Lucas Assessment in emergent literacy. San Diego: Plural Publishing Inc, 377-432, 2007 | 48 | 2007 |
| Children's understanding of the animacy constraint on pretense AS Lillard, A Zeljo, S Curenton, AS Kaugars Merrill-Palmer Quarterly (1982-), 21-44, 2000 | 40 | 2000 |
| Distinguishing maltreating versus nonmaltreating at-risk families: implications for foster care and early childhood education interventions SM Curenton, LM McWey, MG Bolen Families in Society 90 (2), 176-182, 2009 | 39 | 2009 |
| Qualitative descriptions of middle-class, African American mothers’ child-rearing practices and values SM Curenton, JE Crowley, DM Mouzon Journal of Family Issues 39 (4), 868-895, 2018 | 38 | 2018 |
| Factors associated with early school readiness profiles for Black girls IU Iruka, SM Curenton, J Sims, KA Blitch, S Gardner Early Childhood Research Quarterly 51, 215-228, 2020 | 35 | 2020 |
| Does aggregate school-wide achievement mediate fifth grade outcomes for former early childhood education participants? SM Curenton, N Dong, X Shen Developmental Psychology 51 (7), 921, 2015 | 35 | 2015 |
| How changes in home and neighborhood environment factors are related to change in Black children's academic and social development from kindergarten to third grade IU Iruka, SM Curenton, S Gardner Journal of Negro Education 84 (3), 282-297, 2015 | 35 | 2015 |
