Steps to Advance

Literacy Solutions

Print + Digital | Grades 2-6

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

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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

Gradual Steps Provide a Scaffold to Complex Text

Consumable interactive

student books

Consumable interactive student books At three levels of scaffolding provide access to content-rich informational and literary texts Print and assignable e-book versions included.

Learner-centered approach provides for a gradual-release of scaffolds as students engage with increasingly complex text
Vertically aligned topic-based units integrate social studies, science, and literary texts that build knowledge within and across grade levels
Daily opportunities to practice and apply acquired skills across the language domains of reading, writing, listening, and speaking

120 vocabulary cards per grade

120 vocabulary cards per grade help build and reinforce vocabulary

12 cards per unit
Supports vocabulary development, meaning making, and language practice

Program Guide

Program Guide offers information for implementation including:

Program components
Skills and strategies
Assessments
Pacing options

Teacher Resource System

Teacher Resource System provides a clear, consistent, and effective approach to vocabulary and comprehension instruction.

Highly scaffolded reading instruction ‘steps up’ students to grade-level complex text every week
Focused instruction on priority skills and standards
Comprehension skills are taught, modeled, and practiced across multiple units.
Explicit instruction in vocabulary development and reading comprehension
Integrated Multilingual Learner Support
Constructive Conversation Prompts

120 print and digital

vocabulary cards per grade

120 print and digital vocabulary cards per grade build understanding and proficiency with new vocabulary.

Detailed instructional routines
Quick Vocabulary Review
Extend Knowledge activities

Online assessments

Online assessments are formatted like standardized exams and provide teachers with progress-monitoring opportunities throughout the year.

PDF assessment available on Benchmark Universe.

Pre/Post Assessments

Weekly Assessments

Unit Assessment

Weekly Assessments provides formative information to guide instruction

Unit Assessment measures student achievement with the vocabulary, skills, and strategies that have been taught in the unit

Use Pre/Post Assessment to monitor progress, inform instruction, and furnish entry and end-of-year results.

Unit videos offer a high-interest, multimedia introduction to each unit of study.

The multilingual glossary

The multilingual glossary provides image support, definitions, and sample sentences for all explicitly taught words in the program. Words, definitions, and sample sentences are translated and read-aloud in 10 languages.

Home-Connection letters

Home-Connection letters to caregivers summarizes the focus of each unit and ways to support learning at home. Each letter includes:

Selection Summaries
Reinforces Unit Vocabulary
Conversation Prompts

Fully interactive and customizable eBooks

Fully interactive and customizable eBooks engage students for digital or in-person instruction and provide opportunities for all students to experience deep, meaningful reading experiences.

High quality, curated texts use science, social studies, literary topics to build knowledge.
Texts and teacher support materials are organized through an easy-to-use filtering system, allowing users to find standard-specific resources instantly.
Customizable pages enable teachers to embed videos, create graphic organizers, and track student progress.
Annotation tools empower students to highlight and underline text, add virtual sticky notes, and write in margins, increasing comprehension and building the reading/writing connection.
eBooks feature audio narration accompanied by word-by-word highlighted text to assist striving readers.

Benchmark Phonics Intervention

Print + Digital • Grades K-5

Benchmark Phonics intervention provides phonics and phonological awareness instruction to students two or more years below grade-level expectations. It offers: