i-Ready

Reading & Math Inform Assessments & Learning Paths

i-Ready INFORM Assessment

i-Ready offers Reading assessments (Beginning of the Year, Middle of the Year, End of the Year) that our Multilingual Learner Newcomer students take throughout the school year (4 assessments at Bridge Academy with the trimester system).
Bridge piloted i-Ready in Spring 2025, and then all Newcomer sites began using i-Ready in Fall 2025.
i-Ready is used for newcomer students in newcomer programs instead of the NWEA MAP. It is administered in ML English classes.
i-Ready Math is used for newcomer students at Bridge Academy.
Recommendation: Use Hapara when administering i-Ready so translation features or navigation to other sites is disabled!
- - If you have separate sections in one class period, you can manually create a class in Hapara to do a session for your whole class together with sections combined.

i-Ready PRO personalized instruction lesson paths

Each "Inform" Assessment sets students on a personalized "i-Ready Pro learning Pathway" with online, personalized lessons that are tailored specifically to each student's needs and level in reading and/or phonics and phonemic awareness. There is a similar test and set of learning pathways for Math at Bridge Academy.
i-Ready recommends that students spend between 30-49 minutes on i-Ready Pro lessons each week. They can complete these during class, tutorial time, for homework, etc.
Both Designated ELD teachers and ML English teachers have access to student progress, dashboards, and can assign work within the platform.

Teachers access i-Ready through Clever.
Trainings were held at the start of the Fall 2025 school year, and Nicole Elenz-Martin (MLP Coordinaor TOSA) and Araceli Guizar (Testing Coordinator) give ongoing support and updates moving forward.
ML English teachers administer the i-Ready inform, but students can be monitored and work on i-Ready pro in both their ML English and their Designated ELD classes.

i-Ready Padlet
i-Ready Pro Google Drive Folder (sign in through Clever!)
- - Data chats: Large bank of resources for talking with students about their data and progress!
Shared Google Drive for teachers with all i-Ready Inform instructions, and resources.
- - Assessment Flow for the "Inform": Reading and Math
    - - Note: our newcomer begin the Reading Inform at the 2nd grade level; newcomer student at Bridge start Math at the 3rd grade level and in the Spanish language, if their home language is Spanish. Please reach out to Araceli (aguizar@smuhsd.org) for any adjustments to this!
  - Slide shows to prepare students for the Inform: English and Spanish
  - Teacher checklist for administering the "Inform"
    - Monitoring the status of the "Inform"
    - Understanding the results reference sheet
- Certificates to celebrate completion of goals, assessments, etc.