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TOOL NAME
Child/Home Early Language and Literacy Observation
USED TO EVALUATE
Literacy practices in home-based child care settings
AGE RANGE
Birth through 5
COMPLETED BY
Early childhood administrators and program directors, trainers and coaches, and researchers
TIME COMMITMENT
About 1½–2 hours to conduct a complete observation
ABOUT
Derived from the bestselling, classroom-focused ELLCO, and shaped by extensive research on effective child care and literacy practices, the Child/Home Early Language and Literacy Observation Tool (CHELLO) assesses the early literacy environment in home-based child care settings. Early childhood professionals use CHELLO to help providers of “family, friend, and neighbor” care improve their literacy supports and interactions with children.
Description
The CHELLO is the only observation tool designed to rate the early literacy environment in home-based child care settings. A reliable, field-tested tool derived from the bestselling, classroom-focused ELLCO, CHELLO assesses environments that include children of different ages, from birth to 5 years. Use CHELLO to develop accurate profiles of materials and practices in family/group child care settings, help providers improve their literacy supports and interactions with children, and measure changes in the quality of environments over time.
This set is the complete CHELLO and includes the Tool and a User's Guide with explicit instructions on conducting the observation, photographs that illustrate successful and unsuccessful environments, practical strategies to support literacy development in home-based settings, and the psychometric properties of CHELLO.
Benefits of CHELLO
- Provides accurate profiles of materials and practices in home-based child care settings
- Helps providers improve their literacy supports and their interactions with children
- Identifies professional development needs
- Allows for measurement of changes in the quality of environments over time
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