Benchmark Education

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Small-Group Texts

Differentiate with Small-Group Texts

Differentiation is no easy task, which is why Benchmark Education has developed small-group texts that are designed to support educators as they strive to meet the unique needs of each individual learner.

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.

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.

  • Effective support helps you teach academic vocabulary and use of text features.