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.
 Two Personalized Instruction lesson screens—one math and one reading.

Latest Updates

Maximize summer learning time with targeted lessons using the Summer Learning Lesson Playlist, available now for summer 2025.

Previous Updates

In case you missed it, check out our recent updates to i-Ready:

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i-Ready Assessment

i-Ready Diagnostic
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  • 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.
  • 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.
i-Ready Literacy Tasks
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  • 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.
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i-Ready Personalized Instruction

Mathematics
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  • 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.
Reading
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  • Support older striving learners with new age-appropriate lessons targeting high-frequency words using i-Ready Pro's Essential Lessons.
  • Provide systematic and explicit Phonics instruction to older striving learners with i-Ready Pro's Essential Lessons in foundational skills.
  • Support Spanish reading comprehension and fluency in Grades 3–5 with new Spanish Vocabulary lessons that focus on context clues and word families.
  • Track progress and performance in i-Ready Pro’s Essential Lessons for Reading with enhancements to all Personalized Instruction reports—now including the Personalized Instruction by Lesson (Class) report and Personalized Instruction Summary (District/School) report.
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Mathematics

i-Ready Classroom Mathematics
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  • 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.
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Literacy

Magnetic Comprehension
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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.