Summer School 2024

Put students on the path to mastery with essential resources for use inside and outside of the classroom.

Benchmark Booster does more than simply provide effective
skill-builders. Its print, digital, and audio components:

• Support blended learning
• Target priority standards with concise, focused instruction and assessment
• Provide flexible lessons to fit a variety of instructional models
• Support instruction anywhere with synchronous and asynchronous activities
• Deliver equity in English and Spanish 
• Address student trauma through CASEL’s social-emotional learning woven into daily lessons

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.

Structured Literacy Intervention Also Addressing Vocabulary and Comprehension

• 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

• Builds vocabulary, language, reading comprehension, and content knowledge
• Provides scaffolds to complex text to help students become more confident, on grade-level readers
• Addresses key informational and literary reading goals

• Aligns to Benchmark Advance Scope and Sequence

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.

• 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

• Provide fun, standards-based, real-world texts and activities that make math engaging and relevant for students and help them develop problem-solving skills
• Focus on growing academic vocabulary in the math domain—an essential element for math success
• Help accelerate learning growth in math and reading
• Underscore the direct correlation between understanding of math vocabulary and positive reading test scores
• Support English learners and striving readers
• Offer assessment options for whole-group and small-group learning environments

• Annotating complex text is explicitly taught and effectively practiced.​
• Collaborative conversations develop understanding and clarify thinking.​
• Writing to sources enables students to create evidence-based answers.​

English and Spanish versions of the same texts support dual language learners.

• Annotating complex text is explicitly taught and effectively practiced.​
• Collaborative conversations develop understanding and clarify thinking.​
• Writing to sources enables students to create evidence-based answers.​

English and Spanish versions of the same texts support dual language learners.

• Effective Tier I and Tier II intervention
• Development of close reading and text evidence skills
• 50/50 balance of fiction and nonfiction

• Flexibility for in-classroom, remote, pull-out, and summer school instruction

Implement effective early literacy intervention with authentic resources in Spanish that follow a Spanish phonics sequence.​

• Deliver immediate and strategic intervention.
• Improve and sustain reading achievement.
• Develop academic vocabulary and content knowledge.

• 50/50 balance of fiction and non-fiction