User's Guide To The Child/home Early Language And Literacy Observation Tool (chello)

This User's Guide will help professionals administer the CHELLO, a reliable, fieldtested observation tool for assessing the early literacy environment in homebased 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 homebased 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 homebased child care settings.