Cuéntame Collaborative

Currently, 1/3 of childcare sites in Pima County are “home-based care” settings in which early childhood professionals care for children in their home. Make Way for Books provides coaching, books and resources, as well as ongoing Community of Practice to build early childhood professionals’ knowledge-base and give them skills to implement higher-quality literacy and language practices with children. Our Cuéntame Collaborative provides multiple strategies to ensure young children have quality early literacy and learning experiences in home-based care settings as well as with their families. We emphasize that bilingualism and biliteracy are assets to children’s literacy development and early learning as well as throughout their lives. The project is focused around early literacy and language development as well as bilingualism practices in home-based care settings.