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.

Phonics

Build Phonics Skills with Explicit, Systematic Instruction

Benchmark Education’s phonics programs ensure mastery with a focus on practice through reading and writing application that builds students’ knowledge and vocabulary. Based on Science of Reading research, these structured literacy approaches make phonics meaningful.

Dynamite Decodables​

Engage K-2+ students with 100 new decodable stories your students can’t put down!​​

  • Builds student confidence and mastery by helping students “crack the code” through humorous, knowledge-building, and diverse decodable readers.​
  • Adheres to the tenets of Structured Literacy and Science of Reading research through phonological awareness, sound-spelling relationships, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and connected reading and writing. ​
  • Encourages family involvement with take-home books and home-school connections.​

Decodable Fluency Builders

Build fluency, develop comprehension, and apply phonics skills for Grades K-1+

Fluency is the Bridge to Comprehension.

 

Build fluency with high-quality titles for authentic decoding experiences.

  • Develop reading comprehension by combining phonics, high-frequency words, and language comprehension work in accountable texts.
  • Apply skills for transfer with meaningful application to reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

BEC Decodables

Instructive, Comprehensible, and Engaging Texts​​ for K-1+

Practice phonics and high-frequency words in context while nurturing a love for reading.

  • Instructive books practice phonics skills in an explicit, systematic, & spiraled way.​Spiral review and repetition build mastery.​
  • Comprehensible texts incorporate natural sounding speech and sentence patterns.​
  • Engaging and interesting stories with vivid design ignite students’ desire to read.

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

BEC Mis libritos de fonética

Instructive, Comprehensible, and Engaging Spanish Texts for K-1+

  • Offers authentic practice in Spanish with phonics skills and sight words through fiction and nonfiction titles

  • Addresses appropriate methodology specific to Spanish literacy

  • Includes familiar storylines to ensure ease of reading and empower young readers to feel self-reliant

  • Supports key literary, science, and social studies content

  • Increases engagement through high-interest topics and decodable text
  • Provides a variety of formats to fit any instructional model or budget
  • Involve families with take-home books to build student confidence & home libraries.​

Grade 2 Decodable Passages

Build Automaticity with Decodable Reading Practice

  • Delivers 60 decodable passages for phonics & foundational skills applications in one convenient text

  • Consumable format allows student mark ups and annotations while practicing decoding

  • Aligns to 10 knowledge-building topics to build language comprehension.

  • Available in 6-pack and 30-pack sets for small group or whole group instruction

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

Lecturas decodificables Grado 2

Build Automaticity with Decodable Reading Practice

  • Delivers 34  decodable passages for phonics & foundational skills applications in one convenient text

  • Consumable format allows student mark ups and annotations while practicing decoding

  • Aligns to 10 knowledge-building topics to build language comprehension.

  • Available in 6-pack and 30-pack sets for small group or whole group instruction

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