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At Curriculum Associates, we’re on a mission to make classrooms better places for teachers and students. i‑Ready updates are extensively researched, tested in classrooms, and built to address your needs. For the 2025–2026 school year, these enhancements are designed to help you teach with confidence, support every learner, and make the most of your instructional time.
See what’s new and explore recent updates to i-Ready.
i-Ready Assessment Updates
- Plan for grade-level Algebra 1 instruction for Grade 8 students with a new Algebra 1 experience in the Grade-Level Planning (Prerequisites) report.
- Quickly understand and share a student's English literacy performance with the Student Literacy Profile, a comprehensive report that combines data from i-Ready Literacy Tasks and i-Ready's adaptive assessment.
- Provide students in Grades 6+ with greater visibility into their performance with domain-level assessment results viewable in i-Ready Pro.
- Deliver an improved assessment experience to students in Grades 6+ with a refreshed intro, optional Brain Breaks, and clearer visibility into performance in i-Ready Pro.
- Choose to analyze student performance with a new combined race and ethnicity demographic filter on select exports and the Diagnostic Results, Diagnostic Growth, and Personalized Instruction Summary reports for a district/school. Contact your i-Ready Partners if interested.
- Access embedded resources directly within the Grade-Level Planning (Prerequisites) report to address students’ prerequisite needs. Available for i-Ready Inform (formerly i-Ready Diagnostic) and i-Ready Classroom Mathematics 2024 users only.
- Quickly understand and share a student's literacy performance with the Student Literacy Profile, a comprehensive report that combines data from i-Ready Literacy Tasks and i-Ready's adaptive assessment.
- View assigned tasks and results more easily with a new way to find, filter, and sort Literacy Tasks benchmark assignments by population.
- Spend less time creating benchmark assignments by using the new Literacy Tasks assignment cart to create multiple assignments at once.
- Assign Literacy Tasks more efficiently by assigning benchmark tasks to an entire grade across multiple schools (school/district administrators only).
- Administer tasks with greater ease and confidence using i-Ready Literacy Tasks Teacher Forms redesigned for a better experience.
- Administer Literacy Tasks efficiently with digital markup and automatic scoring—now available for all i-Ready Inform (formerly i-Ready Diagnostic) for Reading customers.
- Assess how proficient readers decode pseudowords with the redesigned Pseudoword Decoding—Multisyllabic Literacy Task.
- Find the right Literacy Task for progress monitoring with an improved task library experience.
- Share Evaluación Diagnóstica de lectura insights with families using the For Families in the Reports menu.
- Save testing time by configuring Assessment Access settings to manage student access to Evaluación Diagnóstica de lectura directly via the “Reading Spanish” subject.
- Provide caregivers direct access to Evaluación Diagnóstica de lectura insights through the student dashboard, alongside other For Families reports. Available only in districts where this feature is enabled
i-Ready Personalized Instruction Updates
NEW February 2026
- View Personalized Instruction Summary data at the district or school level in i-Ready Pro for Mathematics.
- Celebrate student progress for Grades 6+ as students redeem earned XP (i.e., Experience Points) to personalize their i-Ready Pro student dashboard with customizable color themes.
- Gain deeper visibility into lesson performance in Mathematics for students in Grades 6+ using i-Ready Pro, with an enhanced Personalized Instruction Summary (Student) report, now including percentage of lessons passed, student progress, and skill-level details.
- Celebrate student progress for Grades 6+ as students redeem earned XP to unlock customizable profile icon rewards in the i-Ready Pro student dashboard.
- Track student progress more easily in the Personalized Instruction Summary (Class) report for Grades 6+ using i-Ready Pro. The number of lessons passed is now visible in the Overall Performance tab.
- Give Grades 6+ students ownership over their dashboard with new light and dark mode options in i-Ready Pro.
- Save time assigning lessons in i-Ready Pro’s Personalized Instruction with Quick Assign for faster lesson delivery.
- View skill-level insights for i-Ready Pro Mathematics lessons in the new Essential Lessons and Elevate Lessons tabs of the Personalized Instruction Summary (Class) report.
- See Time-on-Task and Percent of Lessons Passed, now inclusive of i-Ready Pro lessons, in the enhanced Personalized Instruction Summary (District/School) report.
- Give Grades 6+ students the opportunity to customize their dashboard with new profile icons for i-Ready Pro.
NEW February 2026
- View Personalized Instruction Summary data at the district or school level in i-Ready Pro for Reading.
- Celebrate student progress for Grades 6+ as students redeem earned XP (i.e., Experience Points) to personalize their i-Ready Pro student dashboard with customizable color themes.
- Gain deeper visibility into lesson performance in Reading for students in Grades 6+ using i-Ready Pro with an enhanced Personalized Instruction Summary (Student) report, including percentage of lessons passed, student progress, and detailed data by comprehension and foundational skills.
- Celebrate student progress for Grades 6+ as students redeem earned XP to unlock customizable profile icon rewards in the i-Ready Pro student dashboard.
- Track student progress more easily in the Personalized Instruction Summary (Class) report for Grades 6+ using i-Ready Pro. The number of lessons passed is now visible in the Overall Performance tab.
- Give Grades 6+ students ownership over their dashboard with new light and dark mode options in i-Ready Pro.
- Save time assigning lessons in i-Ready Pro’s Personalized Instruction with Quick Assign for faster lesson delivery.
- View skill-level insights for i-Ready Pro Reading lessons in the new Foundational Skills and Comprehension tabs of the Personalized Instruction Summary (Class) report.
- See Time-on-Task and Percent of Lessons Passed, now inclusive of i-Ready Pro lessons, in the enhanced Personalized Instruction Summary (District/School) report.
- Give Grades 6+ students the opportunity to customize their dashboard with new profile icons for i-Ready Pro.
Mathematics Updates
NEW February 2026
- Gain greater insights into individual student's fluency skills with the new Fluency Flight (Student) report.
- Dive deep into student responses in Digital Practice sets with new Student Details in the Class report.
- Simplify review of completed Digital Practice work for students and caregivers with a new Completed Work review mode.
- Manage Digital Practice assignments more efficiently by editing start and due dates on existing assignments.
- Deliver targeted practice with the new option to assign Digital Practice sets to individual students in Grades 2–Algebra 1.
- Access embedded Spanish resources directly within the Grade-Level Planning (Prerequisites) report to address student needs for prerequisite skills. Note: Available for i-Ready Classroom Mathematics ©2024 users only.
- Maximize usability for students with accessibility improvements for i-Ready Classroom Mathematics. Learn more on the Accessibility and Accommodations Resource Hub.
- Assess student understanding of concepts covered in i-Ready Classroom Mathematics ©2024 with auto-graded Comprehension Checks in Spanish. Note: Available for i-Ready Classroom Mathematics ©2024 users only.
- Access embedded resources directly within the Grade-Level Planning (Prerequisites) report to address students’ prerequisite needs. Note: Available for i-Ready Inform (formerly i-Ready Diagnostic) and i-Ready Classroom Mathematics ©2024 users only.
Literacy Updates
- Strengthen word-analysis skills with new spelling lists aligned to lessons. Available via digital access through the Teacher Toolbox.
- Access Google Slides™ on Teacher Toolbox.
Google Slides™ is a distinct brand feature of Google, LLC.
- Provide explicit and systematic phonics intervention for students in Grades 3–12 with an updated edition of Dr. Anita Archer's Phonics for Reading, and deepen your interventions with brand-new digital supports through the Teacher Toolbox. Learn more.
Service Updates
- Easily find all support resources in one place on i-Ready Success Central—including i-Ready Inform (formerly i-Ready Diagnostic), i-Ready Personalized Instruction, Magnetic Comprehension, Ready Mathematics, and i-Ready Classroom Mathematics resources. Resources will be tailored to your specific implementation, with improved search tools to help you find what you need faster.
- Streamline learning with an improved Online Educator Learning experience that leverages smart course recommendations, clearly sequenced learning paths, live session attendance data, and administrator tools for course assignment and progress monitoring.