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Explore State-Approved and Fully Connected Literacy Resources
Advance with Integrated Solutions
Create a powerful force for building literacy proficiency and knowledge. Tap into top-quality, connected programs comprising robust, intuitively designed, and highly effective resources for teachers and students. At the core of these cohesive, interrelated solutions is the award-winning Benchmark Advance.
The Knowledge-Based
Literacy Solution
Virginia Literacy Act-Approved
Print + Digital | English & Spanish
Aligned with Science of Reading research, Benchmark Advance is a core language arts program that provides a cohesive structure for the development of literacy skills and content knowledge.
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Prepare for Kindergarten by Building and Integrating Knowledge Across Learning Domains
Comprehensive PreK Program
Virginia Literacy Act-Approved
Print + Digital
Research-based and grounded in an understanding of how children learn, Ready to Advance blends social-emotional development with academic learning. Ten thematic units feature topics that build domain-specific knowledge and early literacy skills.
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Maximize Your Instruction
In full alignment and correlation with Benchmark Advance, these programs deliver everything you need for phonics skill-building, English language development, and intervention for striving students.
Start Up Build Up Spiral Up Phonics
Print + Digital • Grades K-2+
This flexible resource, designed for just-in-time reteaching or Tier 2 intervention for students struggling with phonics skills, aligns with Science of Reading research and the tenets of Structured Literacy and is presented in a grab-and-go skills bag format.
Start Up Build Up Spiral Up Phonics is tied directly to core phonics instruction in Benchmark Advance. As per the Virginia Literacy Act, it is also approved for specific instructional use.
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| Connection to Benchmark Advance |
|---|
| Same phonics scope and sequence |
| Same concepts and knowledge building |
| Same write-in student book format |
| Same skills and strategies |
| VLA-Approved for Use |
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| Phonological and Phonemic Awareness |
| Phonics |
| Fluency |
| Vocabulary |
Benchmark Phonics Intervention
Print + Digital • Grades K-5
This foundational skills reading program provides explicit, systematic, multimodal phonics intervention lessons that support students performing below grade level, including those with dyslexia and other learning challenges.
Benchmark Phonics Intervention is tied to core instruction in Benchmark Advance. As per the Virginia Literacy Act, it is also approved for specific instructional use.
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| Connection to Benchmark Advance |
|---|
| Same phonics scope and sequence |
| Same concepts and knowledge building |
| Same write-in student book format |
| VLA-Approved for Use |
|---|
| Phonological and Phonemic Awareness |
| Phonics |
| Fluency |
Express! Asset-Based Access to English
Print + Digital • Grades K-6
This English language development program is crafted for designated, protected, and grade-level instructional time that promotes language learning while also building knowledge and literacy skills.
Express! Asset-Based Access to English provides instruction that builds into and from core content in Benchmark Advance. As per the Virginia Literacy Act, it is also approved for specific instructional use.
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| Connection to Benchmark Advance |
|---|
| Same vertical topic alignment |
| Same concepts and knowledge building |
| Same write-in student book format |
| Same skills and strategies |
| VLA-Approved for Use |
|---|
| Vocabulary K-5 |
| Comprehension K-5 |
Steps to Advance Literacy Solutions
Print + Digital • Grades 2-6
This language comprehension intervention program is crafted for designated time with students who are in special education or need additional support in accessing complex texts and vocabulary as they build knowledge.
Steps to Advance Literacy Solutions provides an intervention resource that scaffolds students to complex texts in Benchmark Advance. As per the Virginia Literacy Act, it is also approved for specific instructional use.
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| Connection to Benchmark Advance |
|---|
| Same vertical topic alignment |
| Same concepts and knowledge building |
| Same write-in student book format |
| Same skills and strategies |
| VLA-Approved for Use |
|---|
| Fluency |
| Vocabulary |
| Comprehension |
Choose a Standalone Phonics Solution
Virginians seeking a comprehensive phonics resource exclusively can rely on the structured literacy approach and explicit, systematic, multimodal instruction of VLA-Approved Benchmark Phonics.
Benchmark Phonics
Print + Digital • Grades K-5
Designed by Wiley Blevins, Ed.D., this phonics program delivers Tier 1 and Tier 2 instruction. Ten units, each containing 15 lessons, build vocabulary and knowledge through purposeful reading and writing. A robust review and repetition cycle facilitates learning and differentiation is built in for whole-group, small-group, and independent instruction.
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