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i-Ready Literacy Tasks

Foundational Literacy Assessment

Deepen your understanding of essential literacy needs when it's most critical.

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Overview

Assess Foundational Literacy Skills

Measure the skills necessary for foundational reading with this collection of assessments, including fluency, phonological awareness, and spelling and encoding skills. They cover the content that matters—important prereading and reading skills consistent with the Science of Reading. As a complement to the adaptive assessment, these assessments can be used for:

Response to intervention/multitiered system of supports
Progress monitoring
Benchmarking
Universal literacy screening
Dyslexia risk-factor screening
Informing instruction

Program Type:Assessment
Subject:Literacy
Grade(s):K–6
Language:English, Spanish
Format:Digital, Print

Program Features

Valid Data

Trust Your Data Is Backed by Substantial Reliability and Validity Evidence

Get an assessment highly rated by NCII for Academic Progress Monitoring, grounded in best practices, and validated by research, including strong alignment with DIBELS® 8th Edition.

Accurate Insights for All

Built with a deep commitment to providing data that accurately reflects literacy insights for students across many ages and backgrounds

Complete Picture

Know Students Deeply

Start by knowing students’ literacy skills deeply across key Reading domains with a powerful adaptive assessment.

Target Select Foundational Reading Skills

Use Literacy Tasks to focus on each student’s precise needs by drilling into where they most need support.

Gain Both Depth and Breadth of Literacy Insights in One Platform

Access assessments and data in one platform to inform instruction.

Efficient Administration

Choose Your Preferred Administration Method

Choose to administer tasks digitally or on paper to give teachers a choice for what works best in their classroom.

Minimize Administrative Tasks

Eliminate time spent on manual calculations with automatic score calculation.

Save Time by Marking Errors Digitally

Assess more efficiently by digitally marking Literacy Tasks in real time.

Our Vision for the Future

Envision the future of i-Ready Literacy Tasks with voice-enabled capabilities. See what the future holds: a voice-enabled reading tool listening to students read out loud, scoring them individually, automatically, and accurately, and returning objective, actionable performance data to the teacher.

Our Professional Learning suite offers collaborative live sessions and curated, on-demand digital resources to help educators drive meaningful student outcomes with their Curriculum Associates programs.

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What's Included

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Reading tasks measuring foundational literacy skills:

Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
Rapid Automatized Naming
Letter Naming Fluency
Letter Sound Fluency
Word Recognition Fluency
Pseudoword Decoding—Fluency
Pseudoword Decoding—Multisyllabic
Spelling and Encoding
Passage Reading Fluency
Phoneme Segmentation Fluency

Benchmarking and progress monitoring:

For English: more than 130 Benchmark Forms and 250 Progress Monitoring Forms
For Spanish: More than 90 Benchmark Forms and more than 70 Progress Monitoring Forms

Downloadable forms:

Student and examiner versions
Scoring materials

i-Ready Literacy Tasks guides:

Content and scoring overview
Downloadable instructions
Recommended task progressions

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