i-Ready is an online instruction and assessment platform that covers reading and mathematics. As a teacher, you can use i-Ready to identify students learning needs, provide differentiated instruction, and monitor students learning progress throughout the school year.
i-ready provides students with adaptive tests to determine their grade level and to identify areas they need help with. Based on results from these tests, i-Ready provides individualized interactive lessons that address the learning needs of each student. i-Read also offers a wide variety of learning games designed to help K-8 students practice and learn math. Students can play these games after they finish taking lessons.
What is i-Ready Diagnostic?
i-Ready Diagnostic is an adaptive assessment that matches the difficulty of test questions to students learning needs. As students answer correctly, the questions get more difficult and as they answer incorrectly questions get easier. The purpose of i-Ready Diagnostic is to identify the academic strengths and the opportunities for growth for each student.
Teachers use Diagnostic insights to understand students unique learning needs and their learning progress. This diagnostic data is key to creating and providing individualized instruction that support each student's learning.
How does i-Ready Diagnostic work?
When students first log in they will be promoted to take a diagnostic test based on their chronological grade level. As students answer the questions, the test adjusts up and down using questions of varying difficulty until it finally reaches the level of difficulty corresponding to each students learning needs.
'The i-Ready Diagnostic is designed for students to get about 50 percent of the questions correct and 50 percent incorrect. The test will find a “just right” placement level for your student in the quickest, most efficient way possible.'
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What are the subjects covered by i-Ready Diagnostic?
i-Read Diagnostic covers two main areas: reading and mathematics. As for reading, the Diagnostic targets the following sub-skills: phonological awareness, phonics, high-frequency words, vocabulary, comprehension literature, and comprehension informational text. The mathematical skills covered by the Diagnostic are: number and operations, algebra and algebra thinking, measurement and data, and geometry.
What is For Families report?
For Families is a diagnostic report that provides insights on students performance. More specifically, For Families reports contains information that shows how students performed in the test in relation to their grade level, how they performed in relation to students in the same grade level nationwide, and how students performed in specific learning areas called domains. Teachers have the option to share this report with parents.
i-Ready online lessons
Following the results of the diagnostic students are provided with customized online lessons to help them work on areas they need help with. Lessons are interactive and include both example and practice problem activities. As students progress through the lessons, they earn rewards that they can use towards getting educational games to play in the website.
From the i-Ready dashboard, teachers can view students progress and assign specific lessons to select students. The key is to provide quality differentiated instruction that directly addresses students learning gaps. Clicking on My Progress will enable teachers to access detailed data about students performance including time spent on lessons, lessons passed, completed work, and more.
i-Ready professional development resources for teachers
i-Ready offers a large collection of professional development resources to help teachers optimize their instructional practice using the affordances of i-Ready technology. Schools can even hire PD specialists to help with designing custom PD plans for teachers. There are lessons for both new users, practicing users, and advanced users. Also, lessons can be delivered both online and in person. PD resources start from $2500.
How much does i-Ready cost?
i-Ready offers different pricing packages for schools and districts. Schools are required to make a minimum purchase of 150 student licences.'This may be 150 total licenses of a single subject or a combination of two subjects that equal a total of 150' . Student licenses start with $6 per student per year. Also note that 'i-Ready Personalized Instruction is not sold for home-school or private home use'.
