i-Ready

The following are links to a video to introduce you to the i-Ready Assessment: 
English version Spanish video

The English Assess at Home video is also available with captions translated into several languages at THIS LINK. 

If your language is not available above, below is the script to the Assess at Home video.
The Edmonds School District website translation tool can translate this text for you into several other languages.   To do this, use the Language menu found up at the top left side of the district web page.

SCRIPT
Hello, I'm Ty (Claudia in Spanish version), with a message from the i-Ready team. But first, a question...
Have you ever taken a vision test?  Some letters are blurry, some are crystal clear.  And when the test is over, the eye doctor knows exactly what you CAN see, and how to help you see even better.

i-Ready is like that...but it's not checking vision, it's telling us what your child already knows and what they need to work on next in math and reading.

It's a very different kind of test than you and I grew up with.  With i-Ready no "grades" are given; it's fully expected that students will get 50% of the questions wrong!  Which is good - because that's how teachers know what to work on with your child.

i-Ready is normally given at school but this year, there's no normal - teachers are counting on us, the families, to get the same trusted results so your child's learning will stay on course whether they are in school or at home, or both.

And the best way for you to help - IS TO NOT HELP!  Would you help your child with a vision test?  Of course not; you'd stand back and provide no hints.  It's about what your child knows, not what you know.  And the great thing about this test is that it reveals that students may know more than we think.

Now, there are a few things you can do, the most important being this: make sure your child takes i-Ready in a quiet space - the fewer distractions the better.
Other tips can be found at the links on your screen.

Teachers need our help.  In order for them to best support our kids, it will take our best to get the very best of i-Ready.

The Checklist for Assessing at Home provides a 5-step plan to ensure your student has a positive experience with taking the diagnostic assessment at home and produces good data.  ("Good data" means that the results tell us what your child's strengths are, as well as the areas in which they need more support.) 

Checklist in English. For other languages, please go to the Family Resources in Multiple Languages web page for the Family Flyer and Checklist for Assessing at Home.

Guidance for Families Administering the i-Ready Diagnostic from Home is a video that reviews the steps you need to take. The video is available in English and in Spanish.  For other languages, click here to read the script for this video using our website translation tool.

Fridge Tips for Assessment Day is a quick and easy-to-access document that provides information on how families can help to prepare before, during, and after testing.

Fridge Tips in English. For other languages, please go to the Family Resources in Multiple Languages web page.
 

The i-Ready Personalized Instruction Family Guidance video provides you with information for using the i-Ready personalized lessons.

English version. For other languages, go to the this page.  The Spanish video is in Spanish; for other languages the English video is displayed with captions in your language.
 
Fridge Tips for Supporting i-Ready Lessons at Home is a quick and easy-to-access document that provides tips for supporting students and tracking their progress.

English version. For other languages, please go to that section on this page.

The i-Ready Student Data Tracker Sheet allows you to track your child's progress on their lessons (available in English only).

For Families: The i-Ready Family Center is a site that provides more detailed information for families.  The translation tool is available on many of these pages.  We've provided instructions for using the i-Ready website translation tool on a separate menu option on our (this) i-Ready web page that you're currently viewing. 

One resource you might be interested in is the Family Guide, which is a document mentioned in the first paragraph on the i-Ready Family Center page.  There are links there to the Guide in various languages.

For District Staff:  i-Ready Central is a site that provides a large amount of detailed information about the i-Ready system that addresses the system from more of a staff perspective.

Go to i-Ready Central

The official i-Ready website has an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page, specifically for families, found at the link below.  The translation tool is available on this web page.

i-Ready FAQs

If you wish to access information on the i-Ready Family Center website in a language other than English, here is what you do:

• The translation tool is available if you're on a web page where you see ENGLISH and ESPAÑOL at the top of the page.
• For Spanish, just click on the word ESPAÑOL at the top of the page and the page will be translated into Spanish.
• For other languages, use Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge as your web browser as both have a translation tool:
  • The translation tool is activated if you first click on the word ESPAÑOL.
  • Then you will see either a pop-up box that allows you to select another language, or if you don't see that, you should see an icon on the right side of the URL/address bar that you can click on to get the pop-up box.
  • In the pop-up box, click on the 3 vertical dots.  Select the Choose another language option, select your preferred language from the alphabetical list, then click on the Translate button.
  • Below are pictures of what this looks like when using Google Chrome (Google Translate tool).