What's New in i-Ready
i-Ready updates are extensively researched, tested in classrooms, and built to address your needs. We’ve rounded up key updates from this release to help you get the most out of i-Ready .

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i-Ready Assessment
i-Ready Diagnostic
NEW!
- Gain deeper insights into the reading needs of Spanish speakers and learners with i-Ready Evaluación Diagnóstica de lectura en español, the new adaptive Spanish reading assessment for Grades K–6. Note: Contact your i-Ready Partners to enable access if interested.*
- 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 Diagnostic and i-Ready Classroom Mathematics ©2024 users only.
- Maximize usability for students with accessibility improvements for the i-Ready Diagnostic. Learn more on the Accessibility and Accommodations Resource Hub.
- Optimize testing time for students in Grades 3–12 who have previously completed a Diagnostic with the ability to skip the Diagnostic Introductory Videos and tutorials.
*Available after account rollover date
i-Ready Literacy Tasks
NEW!
- 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 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.
- Find a Literacy Task for benchmarking that complies with your state’s guidance with an improved task library experience. Note: Available for administrators only. Guidance for some states is unavailable.
i-Ready Personalized Instruction
Mathematics
NEW!
- Engage all Grades 6–8 students in new i-Ready Pro lessons with the introduction of Elevate Lessons in Mathematics.*
- Easily assign i-Ready Pro lessons for Grades 6+ with an improved experience, and track class performance across all lessons with an enhanced Personalized Instruction Summary (Class) report.*
- Monitor students' Evaluación Diagnóstica de lectura testing progress with the Diagnostic Status report.*
- Maximize summer learning time with targeted lessons using the Summer Learning Lesson Playlist, available now for summer 2025.
- Engage older striving learners in i-Ready Pro’s new Essential Lessons in core numeracy skills, focused on whole and rational number concepts and designed to bridge concepts across different grades and topics.
- Track progress and performance in i-Ready Pro’s Essential Lessons for Mathematics with enhancements to all Personalized Instruction reports—now including the Personalized Instruction by Lesson (Class) report and Personalized Instruction Summary (District/School) report.
- View recommended Learning Games to address student needs for prerequisite skills within the Grade-Level Planning (Prerequisites) report. Note: Available for i-Ready Diagnostic users only.
*Available after account rollover date
Reading
NEW!
- Engage all Grades 6–8 students in new i-Ready Pro lessons with the introduction of Essential and Elevate Lessons in Comprehension.*
- Easily assign i-Ready Pro lessons for Grades 6+ with an improved experience, and track class performance across all lessons with an enhanced Personalized Instruction Summary (Class) report.*
- Understand students’ changing reading needs with grade-level placements aligned to Grades K–6 Spanish reading skills in the student- and class-level Diagnostic reports.*
- Monitor students' Evaluación Diagnóstica de lectura testing progress with the Diagnostic Status report.*
- Maximize summer learning time with targeted lessons using the Summer Learning Lesson Playlist, available now for summer 2025.
- Support older striving learners with new age-appropriate lessons targeting high-frequency words using i-Ready Pro's Essential Lessons for Reading.
- Provide systematic and explicit Phonics instruction to older striving learners with i-Ready Pro's Essential Lessons in foundational skills.
*Available after account rollover date
Mathematics
i-Ready Classroom Mathematics
- Access embedded Spanish resources directly within the Grade-Level Planning (Prerequisites) report to address student needs for prerequisite skills. Note: 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 Diagnostic and i-Ready Classroom Mathematics ©2024 users only.
Literacy
Magnetic Comprehension
- Provide students in Grades 3–5 with opportunities to strengthen word-analysis skills with new spelling lists aligned to Magnetic Comprehension lessons available via digital access through the Teacher Toolbox.
Magnetic Foundations
- Access Magnetic Foundations content as Google Slides on Teacher Toolbox.
- Connect the art of teaching with the Science of Reading to move students in Grades K–2 from foundational skills to reading fluency with Magnetic Foundations.
Phonics for Reading
- 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
Service
- Easily find all support resources in one place on i-Ready Success Central—including 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.