About the Presenter

Wiley Blevins, Ed.M.

Wiley Blevins is a literacy expert and Principal Author of the seminal ILA 2019 Literacy Leadership Brief: Meeting the Challenges of Early Literacy Phonics Instruction. Wiley has written and edited many phonics and literacy resources, and he is the author of numerous best-selling professional development books.

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Benchmark Phonics 

Developed by Wiley Blevins and Aligned to the Science of Reading Research

• Ensure Mastery with explicit, systematic, and multi-modal instruction while building knowledge and vocabulary.  
  
• Make phonics meaningful with daily lessons devoted to purposeful reading and writing.
• Differentiated digital professional learning grows capacity and ensures fidelity of implementation.  

Benchmark Phonics Intervention

Structured Literacy Approach for Targeted and Explicit Instruction. 

• Ensure mastery with systematic, sequential, and multi-modal instruction with spiraled review and repetition.  
  
• Offer authentic application with 50% of daily lessons devoted to purposeful reading and writing.  
  
• Differentiated digitial professional learning grows capacity and ensure fidelity of implementation.  

Decodable Fluency Builders

Support and Assist in Fluency Development 

Fluency is the bridge to comprehension.  

• Build fluency with high-quality titles for authentic decoding experiences.  
• Develop reading comprehension by combining phonics, high-frequency words, and language comprehension work in accountable texts. 
  
• Apply skills for transfer with meaningful application to reading, writing, listening and speaking.