Why use Acadience Reading Pre-K: PELI?

Acadience Reading Pre-K: PELI provides reliable and valid universal screening to identify those children who are not making adequate progress in the acquisition of critical early literacy and language skills and who may be at risk for later difficulties in learning to read when they reach elementary school. The PELI also provides Quick Check progress monitoring assessments for at-risk students who are receiving additional, targeted intervention on one or more of the early literacy and language skills. Finally, these measures assist educators in examining the effectiveness of school-wide literacy supports.

Additional advantages of Acadience Reading Pre-K: PELI are that it:

• directly measures foundational early literacy skills that are responsive to instruction;
• is standardized;
• is thoroughly researched, reliable, and valid;
• is designed for use within a problem-solving, Outcomes-Driven Model of decision-making;
• provides research-based benchmark goals for interpreting results; and
• is efficient and economical.

For more information, please see the Acadience Reading Pre-K: PELI web page or reference the Acadience Reading Pre-K: PELI Assessment Manual, which is available to users who have purchased the assessment.