"Cuéntame Cuentos" (Tell me Stories)
The goal of this project is to co-design and pilot test an intervention program that promotes literacy practices among Latino families and their preschool children (3- to 5-year-olds). We build on a previous project, Parent-EMBRACE, that combines embodied cognition, bilingual literacy, and intelligent tutoring approaches to promote diaogic reading between parents and children. In this project, we additionally introduce elaborative reminiscing as an intervention strategy, well as a co-design approach in the extension of the application.
During Fall 2022, we collected pilot test data through participant-logged in-app information, focus group interviews, and design thinking activities that all formed part of our co-design efforts with Latino families. Our goal with these co-design efforts was to take a culturally responsive, equity-based, and technology-enhanced approach to promoting literacy among Latino families.
We are currently conducting a study to evaluate the resulting app and intervention on their abilities to: (a) increase parental book-sharing and reminiscing practices from pre- to post-intervention, (b) help children experience gains in literacy skills, and (c) aid parents in developing attitudes towards reading that lead to increased quantity and quality of conversations with their children.
"Cuéntame Cuentos" is funded by the Learning Research & Development Center and is a collaborative effort between the FACETLab, the Food4Thought Lab, and our participating co-design families. Within the lab, Jordan Barria-Pineda works on the project.
Publications
Pérez Cortés, L.E., Leyva, D., & Walker, E. (2022). "Cuéntame Cuentos": Incorporating elaborative reminiscing into a dialogic reading technology for Latino child literacy. Poster presented at the 15th Postdoctoral Data & Dine Symposium. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pérez Cortés, L.E., Leyva, D., & Walker, E. (2022). "Cuéntame Cuentos": Incorporating elaborative reminiscing into a dialogic reading technology for Latino child literacy. Poster presented at the 72nd Literacy Research Association Annual Meeting. Phoenix, Arizona