Benchmark Education’s phonics programs ensure mastery with a focus on practice through reading and writing application that builds students’ knowledge and vocabulary. Developed on Science of Reading research, these structured literacy approaches make phonics meaningful.
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Dynamite decodables
You’ve never seen decodable readers like these!
- Decodable readers students both can and want to read.
- Build knowledge about the world reading decodable texts.
- Include explicit instruction and family connections.
Grade 2 Decodable Passages
Build Automaticity with Decodable Reading Practice
- Delivers 60 decodable passages for phonics & foundational skills applications in one convenient text
- Consumable format allows student mark ups and annotations while practicing decoding
- Aligns to 10 knowledge-building topics to build language comprehension.
- Available in 6-pack and 30-pack sets for small group or whole group instruction
Benchmark Phonics
Comprehensive Tiers 1 and 2 phonics program.
- Systematic scope and sequence with explicit instruction
- Authentic decoding and encoding practice
- Built-in scaffolds supports a wide range of learner
Decodable Fluency Builders
Build fluency, develop comprehension, and apply phonics skills for Grades K-1+
- 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
BEC Decodables
Instructive, Comprehensible, and Engaging Texts
- Instructive books practice phonics skills in an explicit, systematic, & spiraled way.
- Comprehensible texts incorporate natural sounding speech and sentence patterns.
- Engaging and interesting stories with vivid design ignite students’ desire to read.
Phonics Intervention
Explicit, Systematic Phonics Support for Students Performing Below Grade Level
- Spiral review and repetition build mastery.
- Multi-modal, cumulative instruction fosters language learning
- A wealth of decodable texts for student practice and repetition
- Flexible, providing options to customize the pace, intensity, and focus of learning as needed
StartUp BuildUp SpiralUp Phonics
Skill-Specific Phonics Solution
Grab-and-go skills bags deliver effective and efficient instruction in an easily organized solution.
- Explicit phonics lessons with spiral review support the Science of Reading research and tenets of Structured Literacy.
- New, engaging, and beautifully designed decodable readers were created under the guidance of phonics expert Wiley Blevins.
- Flexible resource in a grab-and-go format supports multiple school needs while delivering tailored, student-centered instruction.
A whole-child mindset underpins all that we do. Our comprehensive early learning programs feature leveled books across key learning domains that build literacy skills, grade-level knowledge, and social-emotional intelligence. Their instructional design aligns with developmental learning progressions to ensure that children are prepared to achieve success in Kindergarten and beyond.
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Ready to Advance
A research-based curriculum grounded in the understanding of how young children learn, available in both English and Spanish.
- Blend social-emotional development and culturally responsive teaching through 10 thematic units.
- Integrate learning domains throughout the year, developing skills and knowledge over time.
- Cultivate curiosity and exploration with a balance of academic learning and purposeful play.
MySELF
Prepare for lifelong achievement with a research-based SEL program.
- Build positive learning environments and introducing early literacy skills
- Real-world and culturally relevant resources and activities
- Comprehensive and equitable materials provide extended opportunities
Math Connections
Connect math + literacy to increase student success
- Accelerate student learning with lessons that combine math and literacy objectives
- Math math meaningful with real-world activities to encourage problem-solving
- Support differentiation and equitable access for multilingual learners
Early Rising Readers
Leveled books for first-time readers in 10 classic themes across six key learning domains build literacy skills and SEL intelligence.
- Every domain contains a balance of nonfiction and fiction titles.
- Exceptional instructional materials provide specific lesson support for every title.
- Family involvement components extend learning beyond the classroom.
Rising Readers
Enrich students' grade-level knowledge with expertly leveled books.
- Real-world photos and illustrations foster personal connections to texts.
- Content builds reading and comprehension skills for readers at Levels A-I.
- Application to writing boosts writing skills and reading progress.
- Teaching tips and activities help parents and educators build students' comprehension and writing skills.
English and Spanish versions of the same texts support dual language learners.
When we think about unfinished learning and learning loss, we know that some of our students are going to need a structured intervention approach. Benchmark Education has several intervention resources for summer school programs, before- or after-school programs, Tiers II and III, and special education.
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Phonics Intervention
Explicit, Systematic Phonics Support for Students Performing Below Grade Level
- Spiral review and repetition build mastery.
- Multi-modal, cumulative instruction fosters language learning
- A wealth of decodable texts for student practice and repetition
- Flexible, providing options to customize the pace, intensity, and focus of learning as needed
Steps to Advance Literacy Solutions
Ensure Striving Readers access grade-level complex text
- Builds vocabulary, language, reading comprehension, and content knowledge
- Provides scaffolds to complex text to help students to become confident, on grade-level readers
- Addresses key informational and literary reading goals
- Aligns to Benchmark Advance Scope and Sequence
StartUp BuildUp SpiralUp Phonics
Skill-Specific Phonics Solution
Grab-and-go skills bags deliver effective and efficient instruction in an easily organized solution.
- Explicit phonics lessons with spiral review support the Science of Reading research and tenets of Structured Literacy.
- New, engaging, and beautifully designed decodable readers were created under the guidance of phonics expert Wiley Blevins.
- Flexible resource in a grab-and-go format supports multiple school needs while delivering tailored, student-centered instruction.
Steps to Advance Literacy Solutions
An Intervention Solution for Resource, Special Education, and Title Teachers
- Student books align to literary and informational reading standards.
- Gradual steps provide a scaffold to complex text, enabling students to reach grade-level expectations.
- Improve content vocabulary, language, and comprehension.
Benchmark Booster
Boost Learning and Close Skill Gaps in Grades 1-6
Flexible implementation suits a variety of back-to-school models, including blended learning and distance learning.
- Highly focused instructional design
- Fosters social and emotional learning
- Flexible to fit a variety of back-to-school models
- Fully print and digital to support blended learning and distance learning!
- Available in English and Spanish
Spring Forward
Teach targeted reading skills in the classroom or in pull-out sessions.
- Provide effective Tier 1 or Tier 2 intervention.
- Develop close reading skills and use of text evidence.
- Use a 50/50 balance of fiction and nonfiction.
Kindergarten resources develop concepts about print, vocabulary, writing, and phonics skills.
First-Grade resources include Grades K and 1 levels to support the leap to complex text.
Second-Grade resources progress from Emergent to Early/Fluent books to support diverse readers.
Learn more about our equivalent Spanish language series, Soluciones.
Be a Reading STAR
Help intervention students read, analyze, and respond to grade-level genre passages.
- Improve students’ understanding of the features and purposes of different genres.
- Expose students to complex texts for close reading.
- Prepare students for new assessment question types.
Consumable Student Book is full-color.
Teacher's Guides contain built-in "Step-Up" acceleration plan in small-group instruction.
Progress-Monitoring Assessments and Interim Assessments provide placement and exit opportunities.
Ideal for Intervention, Summer School, and Before- and After-School Programs
Our English Learners were some of the students that were most impacted by school closures. At Benchmark Education, we are dedicated to supporting our multilingual students through embedded support for learners in our programs as well as specific EL resources.
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Express
Express! Asset-Based Access to English
Build Knowledge, Language, and Literacy
- Integrates content and language instruction
- Teaches foundational skills in context
- Fosters critical thinking and learner agency
- Scaffolds access to complex text
Benchmark Hello!
Enrich and expand instruction with small-group resources that build content knowledge.
- High-interest leveled texts feature ten key content strands.
- Students learn about key topics by reading informational, opinion, fiction, and other texts.
- Precisely leveled texts support social-emotional learning.
RIGOR
Intervention for Older Newcomers and Other ELs at Preliterate or Primary Reading Levels
- Engaging, age-appropriate resources at a range of levels
- Meets RTI guidelines for Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention
- Flexible scheduling for language arts blocks or extended day
Advancing Language Learning
Meet language development standards through content and literacy connections.
- Integrate reading, writing, speaking, and listening domains.
- Build social, structural, and academic language.
- Amplify language in context and scaffold to grade-level complex text.
- Use formative assessments to differentiate instruction based on language proficiency and content knowledge.
English Explorers
Make science and social studies accessible while developing literacy and language.
- 192 language-leveled texts scaffold vocabulary development and nonfiction comprehension.
- Theme sets include books at four levels for diverse ELs.
- Outstanding photos engage students and support text.
- Audio CDs and talking eBooks increase fluency.
- Text-dependent comprehension questions for each book help students develop evidence-based answers.
Biliteracy celebrates students’ culture, language, and skills and prepares them for college and career success. Benchmark Education offers top-quality authentic Spanish and dual language resources to develop the language, literacy, and content understanding students need for successful transfer to other areas of learning.
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Fonética y gramática
Provide the right resources to engage students and teach initial Spanish literacy skills.
- Authentic Spanish poems, stories, and nonfiction are linked to instructional materials and support.
- Explicit, systematic instruction matches the traditional Spanish phonics sequence.
- Students progress to learning and working with essential types of words.
- Grammar lessons then enable students to read and write complete sentences.
Sound-Spelling Transfer Kit
Develop foundational skills and vocabulary for transfer between Spanish and English.
- Build on students' understanding of their native language.
- Teach them how to apply what they know to a new language.
- Maximize transfer, language acquisition, and biliteracy.
Developed with Silvia Dorta-Duque de Reyes, Program Author
Soluciones
Authentic Spanish resources follow the Spanish phonetic sequence to develop native language literacy.
- Provide immediate and strategic intervention.
- Improve and sustain reading achievement.
- Develop academic vocabulary and content knowledge using a 50/50 balance of fiction and nonfiction.
Kindergarten intervention resources develop concepts about print, vocabulary, writing, and phonics skills.
First-Grade intervention resources include Grade K and Grade 1 levels to support the transition to complex text.
Second-Grade intervention resources progress from Emergent to Early/Fluent books to accommodate diverse readers.
Spanish Language Libraries
Develop Spanish literacy with texts and topics for your students.
- Fully bilingual Teacher’s Guide supports every book in the library.
- Display boxes, labels, and sign-out cards make management easy.
- Spanish Comprehension Question Card accompanies every title, along with Comprehension Power Tool Flip Chart Sets for teachers and students.
Represent
A forward-thinking new series that captures students’ imaginations with beautiful texts that share multiple perspectives and build content knowledge.
- Enrich instruction with vertically aligned, knowledge-based topics.
- Created by a diverse team of authors and illustrators who craft authentic texts that reflect students’ real-world experiences.
- Includes Teacher's Guides, Text Evidence Question Cards, and Content Activity Cards to deliver thought-provoking lessons.
Authentic Voices Library
Build content knowledge by enriching instruction and opening a lens of cultural relevance and social-emotional learning.
- Hundreds of original, culturally inclusive books
- 50/50 balance of literary and informational texts to give students experience with different types of reading content
Spot On
Enrich and expand instruction with small-group resources that build content knowledge.
- High-interest small-group texts feature ten key content strands.
- Students learn about key topics by reading informational, opinion, fiction, and other texts.
- Texts support social-emotional learning.
Standards Close-Up
Standards Close-Up leveled topic sets target individual ELA standards and build science and social studies knowledge. With high-quality content and great flexibility, this essential, comprehensive supplemental solution fosters teacher and student success during these challenging times.
- Each two-book topic set breaks down one standard into manageable skills and strategies, deepening standards mastery across grade levels.
- Multiple texts per set provide opportunities to model skills and strategies for scaffolded learning.
- Standards-based text evidence questions and writing assignments facilitate comprehension.
- Flexible design allows for concentrated focus on unfinished learning—ideal for summer school and intervention.
- EL support every step of the way helps all English Learners master standards and guides them through collaborative performance tasks.
Standards Close-Up
Standards Close-Up leveled topic sets target individual ELA standards and build science and social studies knowledge. With high-quality content and great flexibility, this essential, comprehensive supplemental solution fosters teacher and student success during these challenging times.
- Each two-book topic set breaks down one standard into manageable skills and strategies, deepening standards mastery across grade levels.
- Multiple texts per set provide opportunities to model skills and strategies for scaffolded learning.
- Standards-based text evidence questions and writing assignments facilitate comprehension.
- Flexible design allows for concentrated focus on unfinished learning—ideal for summer school and intervention.
- EL support every step of the way helps all English Learners master standards and guides them through collaborative performance tasks.
Advance ALL
Help striving readers and ELs progress to grade-level text and content.
- Topic sets feature scaffolds for literacy and language development.
- Multi-book sets at a range of reading levels address grade-level science, social studies, and ELA standards.
- Each book contains an illustrated text plus text at a higher level with extra support.
- Pictorial support and glossaries develop academic vocabulary in meaningful contexts.
- eBooks include synchronized audio/highlighting of words, plus interactive learning practice!
PRIME
Keep middle/high school students on grade level with science and social studies content while they master on-level literacy.
- Matching text pairs contain embedded support and motivational features.
- High-interest content is written at on-grade and below-grade levels.
- Standards-based topics develop content-area literacy skills.
Navigators
Improve nonfiction reading skills and comprehension of informational texts with science and social studies theme sets.
- Standards-based books provide access to content at a wide range of levels.
- Effective support helps you teach academic vocabulary and use of text features.
Leveled BookRooms
Diverse, Comprehensive, and Easy to Manage
- Engaging informational and literary texts to develop literacy and content understanding
- Extensive support for differentiated small-group instruction and close reading
- Shelf-ready with a central checkout system for fast, easy use
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress passed three stimulus bills, each addressing K-12 education through ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) which distributes funds based on Title I.
What does your school or district need to know about ESSER funding? Our funding guide will help you learn more about:
- Goals and parameters of the new funding
- Targeted focus on Underserved Students
- Prioritized instructional settings
- Benchmark Education programs aligned to allowable use of ESSER funding (CRRSA and ARPA)
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