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Social Studies

Social Studies

Print + Digital · English & Spanish

Diverse middle school students can access grade-level social studies content through a unique combination of resources that develops and enhances comprehension of key topics:

  • Text Pairs: Matching books at two different reading levels provide facts, perspective, and writing prompts.
  • Small Group & Independent Reading Books: Students at a range of levels can learn about U.S. and world history, as well as geography.
  • Reader’s Theater: Unique scripts bring historic events, documents, and authors to life in the classroom or online.

eBooks with Digital Teaching Support

Benchmark Education’s middle school social studies books improve understanding of grade-level topics, and the same resources are also available in an eBook format with audio and a range of other features:

  • Pop-out annotation columns enable students to write notes and respond to text in other ways.
  • Pop-up glossaries explain the meaning of academic language so it can be understood in context.
  • Virtual sticky notes and other tools enable teachers and students to interact effectively online.
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  1. Advance ALL 104 items
  2. Advancing Language Learning 19 items
  3. Anchor Comprehension Workshop 97 items
  4. Around the Clock Family Involvement Kits 6 items
  5. Be a Reading STAR 18 items
  6. BEC Writer's Workshop 11 items
  7. Benchmark Adelante 2 19 items
  8. Benchmark Advance 2 35 items
  9. Benchmark Literacy 2011 2 items
  10. Benchmark Literacy 2016 6 items
  11. Benchmark Taller 18 items
  12. Benchmark Taller: Taller del escritor 1 item
  13. Benchmark Taller: Taller del Lector 11 items
  14. Benchmark Workshop 18 items
  15. Benchmark Workshop: Reader's Workshop 6 items
  16. Benchmark Workshop: Writer's Workshop 4 items
  17. BookRoom A-Z 1 item
  18. BookRoom Collections 27 items
  19. Bridges 55 items
  20. Bridges/Navigators 18 items
  21. Classroom Library 74 items
  22. Comprehension Skill Bag 17 items
  23. Content Connections 93 items
  24. Early Connections 213 items
  25. Early Explorers 102 items
  26. Enfoque en ciencias y tecnología 13 items
  27. Enfoque en estudios sociales 193 items
  28. Enfoque en literatura 18 items
  29. English Explorers 129 items
  30. Estándares al detalle 29 items
  31. Exploradores Principiantes 49 items
  32. Hello! 2 items
  33. High-Frequency Word Vocabulary Kit 15 items
  34. Leveled BookRooms 12 items
  35. Listos y Adelante 2 5 items
  36. Mi BASE 47 items
  37. Middle School BookRooms 1 item
  38. My First Reader's Theater 17 items
  39. My First Reader's Theater Tales 1 item
  40. MySELF: My Social Emotional Learning Foundations 134 items
  41. Navegadores 120 items
  42. Navigators 180 items
  43. Newmark Generic 7 items
  44. Oral Reading Records Suite 3 items
  45. Phonics Skill Bags 7 items
  46. Prime 66 items
  47. Prime Bridges 47 items
  48. Primeras Conexiones 142 items
  49. Puentes 2 items
  50. Read at Home Family Involvement Kits 10 items
  51. Readers and Writers Genre Workshop 101 items
  52. Reader's Theater Classics 24 items
  53. Reader's Theater Content-Area Concepts 49 items
  54. Ready to Advance 2 2 items
  55. Represent! 102 items
  56. RIGOR 27 items
  57. Rising Readers 25 items
  58. Shared Reading Foundations 26 items
  59. Authentic Voices BookRoom 34 items
  60. Soluciones 20 items
  61. Spanish Anchor Comprehension Workshop 85 items
  62. Spanish Around the Clock Family Involvement Kits 6 items
  63. Spanish BEC Writers Workshop 7 items
  64. Spanish BookRooms & eBookRooms Collections 5 items
  65. Spanish Content Connections 47 items
  66. Spanish Leveled Books Collection 8 items
  67. Spanish My First Reader's Theater 9 items
  68. Spanish Oral Reading Records Suite 3 items
  69. Spanish Reader's & Writer's Genre Workshop 38 items
  70. Spanish Reader's Theater: Content-Area Concepts 14 items
  71. Spanish RIGOR 3 items
  72. Spanish Rising Readers 26 items
  73. Spanish Authentic Voices BookRoom 31 items
  74. Spanish Topic Classroom Libraries 8 items
  75. Spot On Social Studies 193 items
  76. Spring Forward 16 items
  77. Standards Close-Up 51 items
  78. Steps to Advance 15 items
  79. Text Connections 196 items
  80. Text Connections en espanol 153 items
  81. Text Connections: Guided Close Reading 48 items
  82. Text Connections: Guided Close Reading en espanol 6 items
  83. Vamos a Leer 37 items
  84. VITALES 19 items
Configuration
  1. Collection 20 items
  2. Theme Set 194 items
  3. Single-Copy Set 217 items
  4. Consumables 24 items
  5. 6-Pack 1868 items
  6. 12-Pack 48 items
  7. Big Book with Support 127 items
  8. 6-Copy 13 items
  9. Content-Area Set 44 items
  10. Domain Set 2 items
  11. Topic Set 228 items
  12. Skills Bags 25 items
  13. Single-Copy Set with Support 39 items
  14. Developmental Category Set 35 items
  15. Set 30 items
  16. Assessment 2 items
  17. Grade Level/Range Set 384 items
  18. Reading Level/Range Set 196 items
  19. Whole Group Resources 21 items
  20. Small Group Resources 34 items
  21. Intervention 17 items
  22. Teacher Resources 4 items
  23. Phonics Resources 3 items
Content Area
  1. Language Arts 1828 items
  2. Math 637 items
  3. Science 1128 items
  4. Social Emotional Learning 176 items
  5. Social Studies 3717 items
Developmental Category
  1. Emergent 731 items
  2. Emergent/Early 621 items
  3. Early 892 items
  4. Early/Fluent 941 items
  5. Fluent 1546 items
  6. Advanced Fluent 135 items
ELL Level
  1. 1 130 items
  2. 2 81 items
  3. 3 92 items
  4. 4 90 items
  5. 5 281 items
Genre
  1. Animal Fantasy 418 items
  2. Biography 707 items
  3. Dialogue 15 items
  4. Drama 113 items
  5. Fables 294 items
  6. Fairy Tales 278 items
  7. Fantasy 433 items
  8. Fiction 186 items
  9. Folktales 309 items
  10. Fractured Classic 113 items
  11. Graphic Story 79 items
  12. Historical Fiction 521 items
  13. Informational/Explanatory 317 items
  14. informational Reports 168 items
  15. Informational Texts 1846 items
  16. Interview 91 items
  17. Journals 279 items
  18. Legends 121 items
  19. Memoirs 283 items
  20. Mystery 246 items
  21. Myths 130 items
  22. Myths and Legends 159 items
  23. Narrative 99 items
  24. Novel 48 items
  25. Nursery Rhyme 47 items
  26. Opinion/Argument 230 items
  27. Opinion Piece 343 items
  28. Personal Narratives 495 items
  29. Persuasive Essays 108 items
  30. Persuasive Letters 112 items
  31. Plays 276 items
  32. Poem Oratory 27 items
  33. Poetry 70 items
  34. Pourquoi Tales 179 items
  35. Procedural Text 449 items
  36. Realistic Fiction 997 items
  37. Reviews 159 items
  38. Science Fiction 327 items
  39. Simple Essay 48 items
  40. Short Story 18 items
  41. Song 34 items
  42. Tall Tales 147 items
  43. Travelogue 107 items
  44. Trickster Tales 72 items
  45. Variant Tales 45 items
Grade
  1. PreK 227 items
  2. TK 2 items
  3. K 952 items
  4. 1 1149 items
  5. 2 884 items
  6. 3 666 items
  7. 4 601 items
  8. 5 778 items
  9. 6 491 items
  10. 7 182 items
  11. 8 181 items
  12. 9 165 items
  13. 9+ 5 items
Language
  1. Chinese (Simplified) 50 items
  2. Chinese (Traditional) 20 items
  3. English 2443 items
  4. Spanish 1221 items
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  1. BR 369 items
  2. NP 316 items
  3. 10L 70 items
  4. 20L 112 items
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Theme
  1. 19th Century Communities 64 items
  2. 20th Century History 100 items
  3. A Changing Nation 19 items
  4. Addition and Subtraction 106 items
  5. Agents of Change 25 items
  6. All About Me 155 items
  7. American Experiences 42 items
  8. Ancient Civilizations 116 items
  9. Animal Adaptations 87 items
  10. Animal Behavior 68 items
  11. Animal Life Cycles 59 items
  12. Animals 91 items
  13. Animals in the Neighborhood 11 items
  14. Arts and Culture 174 items
  15. At Home At School 120 items
  16. Becoming a World Power 18 items
  17. Being a Good Citizen 149 items
  18. Biography 97 items
  19. Biology 55 items
  20. Career 41 items
  21. Celebrations 83 items
  22. Chemistry 87 items
  23. Citizens and Government 51 items
  24. Citizenship 75 items
  25. Civics and Citizenship 47 items
  26. Civilizations of the Americas 130 items
  27. Coins and Money 42 items
  28. Communities 196 items
  29. Comparing Numbers 112 items
  30. Counting 61 items
  31. Courage in Hard Times 27 items
  32. Culture 9 items
  33. Decimals 3 items
  34. Dreamers and Inventors 43 items
  35. Early Explorers 123 items
  36. Early River Civilizations 122 items
  37. Earth and Sky 29 items
  38. Earth and Space 139 items
  39. Earth's Waters 8 items
  40. Ecology 29 items
  41. Economics 247 items
  42. Electricity and Magnetism 99 items
  43. Energy 2 items
  44. Estimation 78 items
  45. Exploring the Sea 27 items
  46. Fairness and Equality 69 items
  47. Fairy Tales All Around 25 items
  48. Families and Friends 141 items
  49. Food for Health 7 items
  50. Food for Life 27 items
  51. Forces and Energy 61 items
  52. Forces and Motion 221 items
  53. From East to West 33 items
  54. Geography 266 items
  55. Geography in Our World 16 items
  56. Geometry 3 items
  57. Getting From Place to Place 46 items
  58. Government and Citizenship 316 items
  59. Goods and Services 43 items
  60. Government 44 items
  61. Government in Action 34 items
  62. Growing and Changing 42 items
  63. Growing Things 17 items
  64. Growing Up in Tough Times 23 items
  65. Habitats 250 items
  66. Historical Communities 89 items
  67. History 36 items
  68. Historical Biographies 28 items
  69. How To 73 items
  70. Human Body 28 items
  71. In Motion 11 items
  72. Inventors and Innovations 22 items
  73. Invention and Technology 122 items
  74. Jobs 154 items
  75. Justice for All 38 items
  76. Learning About Earth's Past 61 items
  77. Life Cycles 33 items
  78. Life on Earth 77 items
  79. Light and Sound 81 items
  80. Living and Nonliving Things 95 items
  81. Living in Communities 59 items
  82. Looking Back, Looking Ahead 20 items
  83. Making a Living 31 items
  84. Matter 168 items
  85. Measuring 78 items
  86. Meteorology 26 items
  87. Money 96 items
  88. My Body, My Emotions 44 items
  89. My Five Senses 13 items
  90. My Neighborhood 15 items
  91. Myself and My Family 28 items
  92. Myths from Long Ago and Far Away 31 items
  93. Narrative Fiction 27 items
  94. Native American Voices 30 items
  95. Native Americans 81 items
  96. Neighborhoods and Communities 183 items
  97. Number Families 85 items
  98. Numbers and Operations 64 items
  99. Numbers in Real Life 40 items
  100. Nutrition and Exercise 38 items
  101. One World, Many Cultures 60 items
  102. Oral Traditions 30 items
  103. Organisms 84 items
  104. Organisms Past and Present 23 items
  105. Our Changing Earth 58 items
  106. Our Environment 85 items
  107. Our Physical World 116 items
  108. Our Solar System 32 items
  109. Out of This World with Words 18 items
  110. Past and Present 158 items
  111. Patterns and Shapes 141 items
  112. People Who Changed Our World 124 items
  113. Perplexing Puzzles 26 items
  114. Plant Reproduction 61 items
  115. Plants 178 items
  116. Plants and Animals 134 items
  117. Predicting with Data 56 items
  118. Process of Science 21 items
  119. Regions of the United States 102 items
  120. Resources 19 items
  121. Revolutionary Times 46 items
  122. Rocks and Minerals 71 items
  123. Rules 125 items
  124. Rules and Government 138 items
  125. Safety 74 items
  126. School 14 items
  127. Scientific Achievements 96 items
  128. Scientific Investigation 5 items
  129. Senses 48 items
  130. Settling America 112 items
  131. Sort and Classify 79 items
  132. Subtraction 35 items
  133. Staying Healthy 16 items
  134. Staying Safe and Healthy 8 items
  135. Stories from Many Times and Places 38 items
  136. Stories of American Life 27 items
  137. Storms 38 items
  138. Storybook Lessons for Life 33 items
  139. Symbols 80 items
  140. Taking Flight 30 items
  141. Telling Time 57 items
  142. The American Revolution 138 items
  143. The Civil War 157 items
  144. The Civil War: An America Divided 42 items
  145. The Colonies 17 items
  146. The Constitution 104 items
  147. The Earth Beneath Our Feet 30 items
  148. The Earth We Share 32 items
  149. The Environment 240 items
  150. The Human Body 148 items
  151. The Renaissance 48 items
  152. The Solar System 37 items
  153. The Universe 31 items
  154. Then and Now 175 items
  155. Tools and Technology 87 items
  156. Tools at Work 27 items
  157. Transportation 78 items
  158. Two-Dimensional Shapes 1 item
  159. United States History 227 items
  160. Using Graphs Maps and Charts 54 items
  161. Using Maps 90 items
  162. Water and Weather 228 items
  163. Water World 10 items
  164. We Get Along 21 items
  165. Weather 17 items
  166. Weather and Seasons 146 items
  167. Weather and the Sky 44 items
  168. Weathering the Storm 45 items
  169. What Changes Our Earth 36 items
  170. Words Shape Our World 45 items
  171. World Communities 167 items
  172. World Cultures 204 items
  173. World Geography 44 items
  174. World War II 11 items
  175. I Have Feelings 17 items
  176. I Get Along with Others 23 items
  177. I Am in Control of Myself 19 items
  178. I Believe in Myself 12 items
  179. I Communicate and Collaborate 8 items
  180. I am Self-Aware 8 items
  181. I Make Responsible Decisions 18 items
  182. I Build Positive Relationships 18 items
  183. I Can Manage Myself and Set Goals 18 items
  184. I Treat Others Well 20 items
  185. I Am a Responsible Community Member 20 items
  186. I Respect Differences 18 items