Summer School 2024

Benchmark Education Company offers Summer School resources that help students address gaps, maintain reading achievement, and practice critical skills. These powerful solutions nurture dynamic, accelerated learning, reinforce foundational skills and concepts, and prepare students for the next school year.

Enrichment

Broaden Students Experiences with Diverse Voices and Identities

Summer school is a great opportunity to keep students engaged and learning by providing extra opportunities to build knowledge, explore perspectives, and grow in language and literacy. Benchmark Education is committed to children’s literature for and by diverse voices, and to honoring the cultures and experiences of all students and educators.

Reycraft Books

Reycraft Book Collections

Culturally relevant trade books connect children to the world around them by reflecting their own experiences.

  • Authentic stories by authors and illustrators from underrepresented communities
  • Award-winning picture books, early chapter books, middle grade books, and graphic novels
  • Curated collections and teacher support for every book that empower educators to affirm the unique identities of their students

English Trade Book Collection

Specially selected trade books feature award-winning authors and illustrators.

  • Make meaningful links to Benchmark Education core reading knowledge strands.
  • Expand children's world vision through fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
  • Open the door to deep thinking and expanded oral language.

Spanish Trade Book Collection

Celebrate students' culture and language with authentic Spanish literature. Curated by Yanitzia Canetti.

  • Enrich your bilingual and dual language classrooms.
  • Develop the primary language with authentic texts.
  • Engage students and promote self-confidence with books aligned to 10 Knowledge Strands.

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.
  • Student texts support social-emotional learning.

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

Enfoque en

Authentic Spanish texts are designed for today's classroom and focused on today's learner.

  • High-interest texts feature ten key content strands.
  • Informational, opinion, fiction, and other texts teach students key topics.
  • Texts support social-emotional learning and reflect the dimensions of the world.

Represent

Celebrate Rich and Diverse Voices and Identities

  • Reach and raise every child with responsive teaching lessons.
  • Share authentic texts featuring underrepresented groups.
  • Build knowledge, vocabulary, and perspectives by aligning to science, social studies, and ELA topics.