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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 95 items
  4. Around the Clock Family Involvement Kits 6 items
  5. Be a Reading STAR 18 items
  6. BEC Writer's Workshop 10 items
  7. Benchmark Adelante 2 26 items
  8. Benchmark Advance 2 33 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 3 items
  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 92 items
  24. Early Connections 211 items
  25. Early Explorers 102 items
  26. Enfoque en ciencias y tecnología 13 items
  27. Enfoque en estudios sociales 191 items
  28. Enfoque en literatura 17 items
  29. English Explorers 129 items
  30. Estándares al detalle 29 items
  31. Exploradores Principiantes 48 items
  32. Hello! 2 items
  33. High-Frequency Word Vocabulary Kit 15 items
  34. Leveled BookRooms 13 items
  35. Listos y Adelante 2 5 items
  36. Mi BASE 47 items
  37. Middle School BookRooms 2 items
  38. My First Reader's Theater 17 items
  39. My First Reader's Theater Tales 1 item
  40. MySELF: My Social Emotional Learning Foundations 133 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 100 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! 101 items
  56. RIGOR 27 items
  57. Rising Readers 25 items
  58. Shared Reading Foundations 26 items
  59. Authentic Voices BookRoom 43 items
  60. Soluciones 20 items
  61. Spanish Anchor Comprehension Workshop 84 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 37 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 195 items
  80. Text Connections en espanol 160 items
  81. Text Connections: Guided Close Reading 52 items
  82. Text Connections: Guided Close Reading en espanol 5 items
  83. Vamos a Leer 36 items
  84. VITALES 20 items
Configuration
  1. Collection 20 items
  2. Theme Set 194 items
  3. Single-Copy Set 216 items
  4. Consumables 23 items
  5. 6-Pack 1858 items
  6. 12-Pack 48 items
  7. Big Book with Support 127 items
  8. 6-Copy 13 items
  9. Content-Area Set 45 items
  10. Domain Set 2 items
  11. Topic Set 226 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 412 items
  18. Reading Level/Range Set 194 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 1844 items
  2. Math 643 items
  3. Science 1151 items
  4. Social Emotional Learning 175 items
  5. Social Studies 3728 items
Developmental Category
  1. Emergent 744 items
  2. Emergent/Early 636 items
  3. Early 901 items
  4. Early/Fluent 953 items
  5. Fluent 1558 items
  6. Advanced Fluent 138 items
ELL Level
  1. 1 131 items
  2. 2 81 items
  3. 3 92 items
  4. 4 89 items
  5. 5 283 items
Genre
  1. Animal Fantasy 435 items
  2. Biography 728 items
  3. Dialogue 18 items
  4. Drama 122 items
  5. Fables 305 items
  6. Fairy Tales 289 items
  7. Fantasy 453 items
  8. Fiction 188 items
  9. Folktales 324 items
  10. Fractured Classic 125 items
  11. Graphic Story 85 items
  12. Historical Fiction 539 items
  13. Informational/Explanatory 322 items
  14. informational Reports 172 items
  15. Informational Texts 1866 items
  16. Interview 98 items
  17. Journals 296 items
  18. Legends 131 items
  19. Memoirs 293 items
  20. Mystery 253 items
  21. Myths 139 items
  22. Myths and Legends 163 items
  23. Narrative 104 items
  24. Novel 50 items
  25. Nursery Rhyme 46 items
  26. Opinion/Argument 244 items
  27. Opinion Piece 361 items
  28. Personal Narratives 520 items
  29. Persuasive Essays 111 items
  30. Persuasive Letters 118 items
  31. Plays 282 items
  32. Poem Oratory 27 items
  33. Poetry 71 items
  34. Pourquoi Tales 190 items
  35. Procedural Text 470 items
  36. Realistic Fiction 1017 items
  37. Reviews 165 items
  38. Science Fiction 343 items
  39. Simple Essay 54 items
  40. Short Story 20 items
  41. Song 33 items
  42. Tall Tales 153 items
  43. Travelogue 117 items
  44. Trickster Tales 72 items
  45. Variant Tales 50 items
Grade
  1. PreK 226 items
  2. TK 2 items
  3. K 958 items
  4. 1 1152 items
  5. 2 889 items
  6. 3 671 items
  7. 4 608 items
  8. 5 785 items
  9. 6 494 items
  10. 7 183 items
  11. 8 182 items
  12. 9 166 items
  13. 9+ 5 items
Language
  1. Chinese (Simplified) 49 items
  2. Chinese (Traditional) 20 items
  3. English 2448 items
  4. Spanish 1228 items
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  1. BR 381 items
  2. NP 328 items
  3. 10L 71 items
  4. 20L 116 items
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Theme
  1. 19th Century Communities 67 items
  2. 20th Century History 101 items
  3. A Changing Nation 19 items
  4. Addition and Subtraction 108 items
  5. Agents of Change 25 items
  6. All About Me 156 items
  7. American Experiences 48 items
  8. Ancient Civilizations 117 items
  9. Animal Adaptations 88 items
  10. Animal Behavior 69 items
  11. Animal Life Cycles 59 items
  12. Animals 90 items
  13. Animals in the Neighborhood 13 items
  14. Arts and Culture 174 items
  15. At Home At School 122 items
  16. Becoming a World Power 18 items
  17. Being a Good Citizen 150 items
  18. Biography 98 items
  19. Biology 56 items
  20. Career 42 items
  21. Celebrations 85 items
  22. Chemistry 89 items
  23. Citizens and Government 57 items
  24. Citizenship 75 items
  25. Civics and Citizenship 46 items
  26. Civilizations of the Americas 132 items
  27. Coins and Money 42 items
  28. Communities 195 items
  29. Comparing Numbers 114 items
  30. Counting 62 items
  31. Courage in Hard Times 27 items
  32. Culture 9 items
  33. Decimals 3 items
  34. Dreamers and Inventors 45 items
  35. Early Explorers 126 items
  36. Early River Civilizations 123 items
  37. Earth and Sky 29 items
  38. Earth and Space 141 items
  39. Earth's Waters 8 items
  40. Ecology 28 items
  41. Economics 246 items
  42. Electricity and Magnetism 101 items
  43. Energy 2 items
  44. Estimation 79 items
  45. Exploring the Sea 27 items
  46. Fairness and Equality 70 items
  47. Fairy Tales All Around 30 items
  48. Families and Friends 142 items
  49. Food for Health 9 items
  50. Food for Life 32 items
  51. Forces and Energy 64 items
  52. Forces and Motion 227 items
  53. From East to West 38 items
  54. Geography 268 items
  55. Geography in Our World 18 items
  56. Geometry 3 items
  57. Getting From Place to Place 52 items
  58. Government and Citizenship 323 items
  59. Goods and Services 49 items
  60. Government 43 items
  61. Government in Action 39 items
  62. Growing and Changing 47 items
  63. Growing Things 16 items
  64. Growing Up in Tough Times 22 items
  65. Habitats 252 items
  66. Historical Communities 92 items
  67. History 35 items
  68. Historical Biographies 28 items
  69. How To 74 items
  70. Human Body 29 items
  71. In Motion 13 items
  72. Inventors and Innovations 21 items
  73. Invention and Technology 123 items
  74. Jobs 156 items
  75. Justice for All 38 items
  76. Learning About Earth's Past 61 items
  77. Life Cycles 34 items
  78. Life on Earth 80 items
  79. Light and Sound 86 items
  80. Living and Nonliving Things 96 items
  81. Living in Communities 60 items
  82. Looking Back, Looking Ahead 20 items
  83. Making a Living 36 items
  84. Matter 170 items
  85. Measuring 79 items
  86. Meteorology 25 items
  87. Money 98 items
  88. My Body, My Emotions 44 items
  89. My Five Senses 12 items
  90. My Neighborhood 14 items
  91. Myself and My Family 27 items
  92. Myths from Long Ago and Far Away 31 items
  93. Narrative Fiction 26 items
  94. Native American Voices 29 items
  95. Native Americans 84 items
  96. Neighborhoods and Communities 182 items
  97. Number Families 87 items
  98. Numbers and Operations 66 items
  99. Numbers in Real Life 41 items
  100. Nutrition and Exercise 39 items
  101. One World, Many Cultures 61 items
  102. Oral Traditions 30 items
  103. Organisms 87 items
  104. Organisms Past and Present 23 items
  105. Our Changing Earth 59 items
  106. Our Environment 86 items
  107. Our Physical World 118 items
  108. Our Solar System 33 items
  109. Out of This World with Words 18 items
  110. Past and Present 158 items
  111. Patterns and Shapes 142 items
  112. People Who Changed Our World 125 items
  113. Perplexing Puzzles 26 items
  114. Plant Reproduction 61 items
  115. Plants 182 items
  116. Plants and Animals 136 items
  117. Predicting with Data 57 items
  118. Process of Science 20 items
  119. Regions of the United States 105 items
  120. Resources 18 items
  121. Revolutionary Times 46 items
  122. Rocks and Minerals 75 items
  123. Rules 127 items
  124. Rules and Government 138 items
  125. Safety 73 items
  126. School 14 items
  127. Scientific Achievements 100 items
  128. Scientific Investigation 5 items
  129. Senses 49 items
  130. Settling America 112 items
  131. Sort and Classify 80 items
  132. Subtraction 35 items
  133. Staying Healthy 15 items
  134. Staying Safe and Healthy 10 items
  135. Stories from Many Times and Places 38 items
  136. Stories of American Life 32 items
  137. Storms 39 items
  138. Storybook Lessons for Life 39 items
  139. Symbols 81 items
  140. Taking Flight 30 items
  141. Telling Time 58 items
  142. The American Revolution 141 items
  143. The Civil War 159 items
  144. The Civil War: An America Divided 44 items
  145. The Colonies 17 items
  146. The Constitution 107 items
  147. The Earth Beneath Our Feet 35 items
  148. The Earth We Share 37 items
  149. The Environment 244 items
  150. The Human Body 149 items
  151. The Renaissance 49 items
  152. The Solar System 38 items
  153. The Universe 32 items
  154. Then and Now 175 items
  155. Tools and Technology 93 items
  156. Tools at Work 32 items
  157. Transportation 78 items
  158. Two-Dimensional Shapes 1 item
  159. United States History 227 items
  160. Using Graphs Maps and Charts 56 items
  161. Using Maps 91 items
  162. Water and Weather 231 items
  163. Water World 12 items
  164. We Get Along 20 items
  165. Weather 16 items
  166. Weather and Seasons 148 items
  167. Weather and the Sky 50 items
  168. Weathering the Storm 48 items
  169. What Changes Our Earth 36 items
  170. Words Shape Our World 47 items
  171. World Communities 169 items
  172. World Cultures 207 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 17 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