Benchmark Education

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Federal Funding At-a-Glance

Discover programs aligned to use of ESSER funds below.

Explore Benchmark Education Programs

Intervention

Intervene with Comprehensive Solutions  

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.  

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.

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

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

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

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.

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