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.

Intervention

Support Learners with Comprehensive Intervention Solutions

When we think about summer school priorities, student acceleration is paramount. Explicit, strategy-based intervention resources for English and Spanish readers build vocabulary, language, and reading comprehension skills and content knowledge.

Benchmark Booster

Close Learning Gaps. Boost Skills. Empower Students.

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

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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​

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

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 become more confident, on grade-level readers
  • Addresses key informational and literary reading goals
  • Aligns to Benchmark Advance Scope and Sequence

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Standards Close-Up

Standards Close-Up 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.

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

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Math Connections

Math concepts and problem-solving skills are incorporated into reading and literacy instruction.

  • 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

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Reading and Response Tools from Literacy Experts Fisher & Frey​

  • 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.

Acceso a textos complejos

Reading and Response Tools from Literacy Experts Fisher & Frey​

  • 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.

Spring Forward

Teach targeted reading skills in the classroom or in pull-out sessions.

  • 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

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Soluciones

Authentic Spanish resources follow the Spanish phonetic sequence to develop native language literacy.

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

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