Benchmark Education

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Spanish

Advance Biliteracy with Spanish Language Solutions

Biliteracy celebrates students’ culture, language, and skills and prepares them for college and career success. Benchmark Education offers top-quality authentic Spanish and dual language resources to develop the language, literacy, and content understanding students need for successful transfer to other areas of learning.

Fonética y gramática

Provide the right resources to engage students and teach initial Spanish literacy skills.

  • Authentic Spanish poems, stories, and nonfiction are linked to instructional materials and support.
  • Explicit, systematic instruction matches the traditional Spanish phonics sequence.
  • Students progress to learning and working with essential types of words.
  • Grammar lessons then enable students to read and write complete sentences.

Sound-Spelling Transfer Kit

Develop foundational skills and vocabulary for transfer between Spanish and English.

  • Build on students' understanding of their native language.
  • Teach them how to apply what they know to a new language.
  • Maximize transfer, language acquisition, and biliteracy.

Developed with Silvia Dorta-Duque de Reyes, Program Author

Soluciones

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

  • Provide immediate and strategic intervention.
  • Improve and sustain reading achievement.
  • Develop academic vocabulary and content knowledge using a 50/50 balance of fiction and nonfiction.

Kindergarten intervention resources develop concepts about print, vocabulary, writing, and phonics skills.

First-Grade intervention resources include Grade K and Grade 1 levels to support the transition to complex text.

Second-Grade intervention resources progress from Emergent to Early/Fluent books to accommodate diverse readers.

Spanish Language Libraries  

Develop Spanish literacy with texts and topics for your students.

  • Fully bilingual Teacher’s Guide supports every book in the library.
  • Display boxes, labels, and sign-out cards make management easy.
  • Spanish Comprehension Question Card accompanies every title, along with Comprehension Power Tool Flip Chart Sets for teachers and students.