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Steps to Advance Literacy Solutions
Steps to Advance
Literacy Solutions
Digital + Print | Grades 2-6
Steps to Advance Literacy Solutions targets the often overlooked Language Comprehension strands of Scarborough’s Reading Rope, building knowledge and vocabulary while developing reading skills in striving readers.
- 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 Knowledge Strands for seamless support of core instruction
Steps to Advance Literacy Solutions Resources
Consumable interactive student books with 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 help build and reinforce vocabulary
- 12 cards per unit
- Supports vocabulary development, meaning making, and language practice
Program Guide offers information for implementation including:
- Program components
- Skills and strategies
- Assessments
- Pacing options
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 build understanding and proficiency with new vocabulary.
- Detailed instructional routines
- Quick Vocabulary Review
- Extend Knowledge activities
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
Unit videos offer a high-interest, multimedia introduction to each unit of study.
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 to caregivers summarizes the focus of each unit and ways to support learning at home. Each letter includes:
- Selection Summaries
- Reinforcement of Unit Vocabulary
- Conversation Prompts
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:
- Explicit and Systematic Phonics Instruction
- Built-In Review and Repetition Cycle
- Frequent Application to Reading and Writing
- Regularly Builds Vocabulary and Content Knowledge
Advance ALL
Print + Digital • Grades 2-6
Engaging topic sets feature scaffolds for literacy and language development that:
- Align with each Steps to Advance unit
- Provide an accelerated introduction to grade-level text
- Develop Language and comprehension
- Provide scaffolds to complex text
