| Flashcards revisited: Training poor readers to read words faster improves their comprehension of text. A Tan, T Nicholson Journal of Educational Psychology 89 (2), 276, 1997 | 411 | 1997 |
| Getting off to a better start in reading and spelling: The effects of phonemic awareness instruction within a whole language program. JM Castle, J Riach, T Nicholson Journal of educational psychology 86 (3), 350, 1994 | 292 | 1994 |
| Do children read words better in context or in lists? A classic study revisited. T Nicholson Journal of Educational Psychology 83 (4), 444, 1991 | 270 | 1991 |
| “High 5!” Strategies to enhance comprehension of expository text S Dymock, T Nicholson The Reading Teacher 64 (3), 166-178, 2010 | 193 | 2010 |
| The Development and Teaching of Word Recognition Skill WE Tunmer, T Nicholson Handbook of reading research 4, 405-431, 2011 | 128 | 2011 |
| Closing the gap on reading failure: Social background, phonemic awareness, and learning to read T Nicholson Foundations of reading acquisition and dyslexia, 381-407, 2013 | 123 | 2013 |
| Matthew effects in learning new words while listening to stories. T Nicholson, B Whyte National Reading Conference Yearbook, 1992 | 96 | 1992 |
| Have we been misled by miscues? T Nicholson, C Lillas, MA Rzoska The Reading Teacher 42 (1), 6-10, 1988 | 87 | 1988 |
| Space matters: Framing the New Zealand learning landscape L Carvalho, T Nicholson, P Yeoman, P Thibaut Learning Environments Research 23, 307-329, 2020 | 80 | 2020 |
| Reading comprehension processes T Nicholson, GB Thompson Learning to read: Beyond phonics and whole language, 127-149, 1999 | 71 | 1999 |
| Reading the Writing on the Wall: Debates, Challenges, and Opportunities in the Teaching of Reading T Nicholson Social Science Press, 2000 | 69 | 2000 |
| Reading acquisition processes GB Thompson, WE Tunmer, T Nicholson Multilingual Matters, 1993 | 64 | 1993 |
| A comment on Reading Recovery T Nicholson New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies 24 (1), 95-97, 1989 | 64 | 1989 |
| Reading Comprehension: What is it? How do you teach it?. T Nicholson, S Dymock NZCER, 1999 | 63* | 1999 |
| Learning to read: Beyond phonics and whole language GB Thompson, T Nicholson (No Title), 1999 | 61 | 1999 |
| Literacy in the family and society T Nicholson Learning to read: Beyond phonics and whole language, 1-22, 1999 | 58 | 1999 |
| The case against context. T Nicholson Multilingual Matters, 1993 | 58 | 1993 |
| Experts and novices: A study of reading in the high school classroom T Nicholson Reading Research Quarterly, 436-451, 1984 | 58 | 1984 |
| Where do their answers come from? A study of the inferences which children make when answering questions about narrative stories T Nicholson, R Imlach Journal of Reading Behavior 13 (2), 111-129, 1981 | 58 | 1981 |
| Risk factors in learning to read T Nicholson Preventing and remediating reading difficulties: Bringing science to scale …, 2003 | 57 | 2003 |