# User's Guide to the Child/Home Early Language and Literacy Observation Tool (CHELLO)

[Susan B. Neuman, Ed.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_Contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=2260&Name=Susan+Neuman,Ed.D.), [Julie Dwyer, Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_Contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=3808&Name=Julie+Dwyer,Ph.D.), [Serene Koh, M.A.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_Contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=3809&Name=Serene+Koh,M.A.)

Early Childhood

This User's Guide includes instructions on conducting the _CHELLO_ observation, photographs that illustrate successful and unsuccessful environments, practical strategies to support literacy development in home–based settings, and the psychometric properties of _CHELLO_.

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| 69209 | 978-1-55766-920-9 |
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| 2007 | 104 |
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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.

Learn more about [_CHELLO._](/content/resource-center/screening-and-assessment/chello/index.html)

Authors: [Susan B. Neuman Ed.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=2260&Name=Susan+B.+Neuman+Ed.D.), [Julie Dwyer Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=3808&Name=Julie+Dwyer+Ph.D.), [Serene Koh M.A.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=3809&Name=Serene+Koh+M.A.)

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