Child / Home Early Language & Literacy Observation (CHELLO) User's Guide

This User's Guide will help professionals administer the CHELLO, a reliable, field-tested observation tool for assessing the early literacy environment in home-based child care settings. The guide contains explicit instructions on conducting the observation, photographs that illustrate successful and unsuccessful environments, practical strategies to support literacy development in home-based settings, and information about the psychometric properties of CHELLO.

This manual is part of CHELLO, the only observation tool designed to rate the early literacy environment in home-based child care settings.

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