Benchmark Education Company's resources are designed around the five essential components of effective reading instruction identified by scientifically based research: - Phonemic Awareness
- Phonics
- Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension
| The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words provides an understanding that the sounds of spoken language work together to make words. | The understanding that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes (sounds of spoke language) and graphemes (letters and spellings that represent those sounds in written language) helps readers use those relationships to accurately and automatically recognize familiar words and decode unfamiliar words. Phonics Classroom Kits
StartUp™ (Grades K-1), BuildUp™ (Grades 1-2), and SpiralUp™ (Grades 2-3) are research-based, explicit, and systematic solutions for the phonics block in comprehensive literacy classrooms. Lesson resources include teacher�s guides for every skill, activity pages, poems, and reproducible manipulatives. Kits also contain posters, books, and complete assessment tools. Phonics Skill Bags Sets for Intervention
StartUp™ (Grades K-1), BuildUp™ (Grades 1-2), and SpiralUp™ (Grades 2-3) phonics program materials are also available in boxed sets of ready-to-use, skill-specific all-inclusive bags. Ideal for targeting one skill at a time when intervening one-on-one or with small groups. Click here for details. | Fluency, the ability to read text accurately and quickly, provides a bridge between word recognition and comprehension. Fluent readers recognize words and comprehend at the same time. Reader's Theater Grades 1-6
This Teachers' Choice Award-winning program targets fluency with content-related multileveled scripts. Character education is built into both Fluency & Comprehension and NEW Language Arts sets. Click here for details. Fluency Kits for Independent Practice Grades 1-5
Two kits (F–M and N–U) provide leveled text passages for repeated oral reading practice. Students improve word recognition, speed, and accuracy; link fluency to comprehension; and develop test-taking strategies. Click here for details. | The development of stored information about the meanings and pronunciations of words necessary for communication is categorized into four groups: listening, speaking, reading, and writing vocabularies. High-Frequency Word Vocabulary Kit Grades K-1
Books, charts, and cards reinforce 51 sight words while developing curriculum concepts and instilling an early love of reading. Click here for details. | Comprehension strategies are sets of steps that purposeful, active readers use to make sense of text. Comprehension Skill Bags Grades K-3/Levels A-I and Grades 3-8/Levels J-T
All-inclusive bags contain targeted lessons with books, CDs, cards, and other multi-sensory resources. Explicit teacher�s guide and comprehension strategy assessments help teachers accurately place students and monitor progress. Click here for details. Comprehension Strategy Posters with Leveled Texts Grades K-2 and Grades 3-6
Materials are aligned to core reading programs and standardized test strategies. Ideal for building one strategy at a time, reteaching, and reinforcement. Click here for details |
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