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Benchmark Advance & Adelante

Comprehensive, Research-Based Literacy Programs for Grades K-6 in English and Spanish.

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Benchmark Advance & Adelante 

Benchmark Advance & Adelante 

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Benchmark Advance ©2026 and Benchmark Adelante ©2023 are K-6 comprehensive, knowledge-based literacy program that were developed using research-based principles aligned to the science of reading.

The programs provide a cohesive instructional framework that reflects the two sets of competencies from science of reading research addressing all components of the reading process: 

  • Foundational Reading-Skill Competencies:
    • Phonemic Awareness
    • Phonics and Word Study
    • Fluency
    • Sight Words
    • High Frequency Words
  • Knowledge-Based Competencies:
    • Vocabulary
    • Language
    • Comprehension
    • Background Knowledge
  • Teacher's Resource Systems

    These guides provide a roadmap for evidence-based literacy instruction across ten vertically-aligned knowledge building units. Instruction is comprehensive and integrates reading, writing, and foundational skills. 

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  • Assessments

    Track progress and inform instructional next steps with powerful assessments. Weekly,  unit, interim, and performance task assessments are available in printable  and eAssessment format.

     

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  • eAssessments and Reporting

    Assign and Automatically score assessments for powerful, actionable date. Robust reports provide insights from the individual to the district level.

     

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  • Read-Aloud Handbooks

    Build background knowledge and vocabulary while modeling how skilled readers think using engaging literary and informational texts aligned to each unit topic. In addition to shorter read-alouds provided in the handbook, trade book collections are also available. 

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  • Mentor Read-Aloud Big Books

    These short, complex literary and informational texts support daily close reading/listening comprehension and writing lessons. All texts build knowledge on the unit topic.

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  • Extended Read Big Books

    These full-length, complex literary and informational texts support daily close reading/listening comprehension, vocabulary, and writing lessons. All texts build knowledge on the unit topic. 

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  • Build Reading Foundations Big Books

    These big books support explicit instruction focused on unit and academic vocabulary, print concepts, fluency, foundational skills, and spiral review of previously-taught phonics skills. Poetry selections are also included. 

  • My Reading and Writing

    These student consumable books provide opportunities for students to connect phonics skills to authentic reading and writing. Students move from decoding to encoding and meaning making through built-in gradual release. Each book connects to the unit topic. 

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  • Decodables

    These decodable texts for small group and independent practice connect directly to the explicit and systematic phonics scope and sequence. Includes fiction and nonfiction titles.

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  • Teacher's Resource Systems

    These guides provide a roadmap for evidence-based literacy instruction across ten vertically-aligned knowledge building units. Instruction is comprehensive and integrates reading, writing, and foundational skills. 

     
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  • Assessments

    Track progress and inform instructional next steps with powerful assessments. Weekly,  unit, interim, and performance task assessments are available in printable  and eAssessment format.

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  • eAssessments and Reporting

    Assign and automatically score assessments for powerful, actionable data. Robust reports provide insights from the individual to the district level.

    eAssessment

     

  • Build Reading Foundations Big Books

    These big books support explicit instruction focused on unit and academic vocabulary, print concepts, fluency, foundational skills, and spiral review of previously-taught phonics skills. Poetry selections are also included. 

     

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  • My Reading and Writing

    These student consumable books provide opportunities for students to connect phonics skills to authentic reading and writing. Students move from decoding to encoding and meaning making through built-in gradual release. Each book connects to the unit topic. 

     

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  • Decodables

    These decodable texts for small group and independent practice connect directly to the explicit and systematic phonics scope and sequence. Includes fiction and nonfiction titles.

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  • Read-Aloud Handbooks

    Build background knowledge and vocabulary while modeling how skilled readers think using engaging literary and informational texts aligned to each unit topic. In addition to shorter read-alouds provided in the handbook, trade book collections are also available. 

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  • Mentor Read-Aloud Big Books

    These short, complex literary and informational texts support daily close reading/listening comprehension and writing lessons. All texts build knowledge on the unit topic.

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  • Extended Read Big Books

    These full-length, complex literary and informational texts support daily close reading/listening comprehension, vocabulary, and writing lessons. All texts build knowledge on the unit topic. 

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  • Teacher's Resource Systems

    These guides provide a roadmap for evidence-based literacy instruction across ten vertically-aligned knowledge building units. Instruction is comprehensive and integrates reading, writing, and foundational skills. 

     
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  • Assessments

    Track progress and inform instructional next steps with powerful assessments. Weekly,  unit, interim, and performance task assessments are available in printable  and eAssessment format.

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  • eAssessments and Reporting

    Assign and automatically score assessments for powerful, actionable data. Robust reports provide insights from the individual to the district level.

    eAssessment

     

  • Read-Aloud Handbooks

    Build background knowledge and vocabulary while modeling how skilled readers think using engaging literary and informational texts aligned to each unit topic. In addition to shorter read-alouds provided in the handbook, trade book collections are also available. 

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  • Texts for Close Reading

    These student consumable books, sometimes called student “magazines,” contain multiple grade-level complex texts on each unit topic. Students engage deeply with these texts as they read, reread, annotate, and build toward an end-of-unit culminating task. 

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  • Knowledge-Building Libraries

    These collections provide students opportunities to expand on their knowledge around the unit topics and explore perspectives in texts writing by diverse, award-winning authors. 

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  • My Word Study

    The digital student book provides the opportunity to interact, apply, ad transfer phonics and morphology skills learned during the phonics lesson in unit topic-related passages. Build Automaticity activities develop accuracy and fluency with phonics and syllable types.

  • Decodables

    These decodable texts for small group and independent practice connect directly to the explicit and systematic phonics scope and sequence. Includes fiction and nonfiction titles.

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  • Teacher's Resource Systems

    These guides provide a roadmap for evidence-based literacy instruction across ten vertically-aligned knowledge building units. Instruction is comprehensive and integrates reading, writing, and word study. 

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  • Assessments

    Track progress and inform instructional next steps with powerful assessments. Weekly,  unit, interim, and performance task assessments are available in printable  and eAssessment format.

      img-eng00010  img00021

  • eAssessments and Reporting

    Assign and automatically score assessments for powerful, actionable data. Robust reports provide insights from the individual to the district level.

    eAssessment

     

  • Read-Aloud Handbooks

     Build background knowledge and vocabulary while modeling how skilled readers think using engaging literary and informational texts aligned to each unit topic. In addition to shorter read-alouds provided in the handbook, trade book collections are also available. 

    Y40592  img00020

     

  • Texts for Close Reading

    These student consumable books, sometimes called student “magazines,” contain multiple grade-level complex texts on each unit topic. Students engage deeply with these texts as they read, reread, annotate, and build toward an end-of-unit culminating task. 

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  • Knowledge-Building Libraries

    These collections provide students opportunities to expand on their knowledge around the unit topics and explore perspectives in texts writing by diverse, award-winning authors.

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  • My Word Study

    This student book provides the opportunity to interact, apply, and transfer phonics and morphology skills learned during they phonics lesson in unit topic-related passages. Build automaticity activities develop accuracy and fluency with phonics and syllable types. 

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  • Teacher's Resource Systems

    These guides provide a roadmap for evidence-based literacy instruction across ten vertically-aligned knowledge building units. Instruction is comprehensive and integrates reading, writing, and word study. 

     
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  • Assessments

    Track progress and inform instructional next steps with powerful assessments. Weekly,  unit, interim, and performance task assessments are available in printable  and eAssessment format.

      img-eng00011  img00025

  • eAssessments and Reporting

    Assign and automatically score assessments for powerful, actionable data. Robust reports provide insights from the individual to the district level.

    eAssessment

     

  • Read-Aloud Handbooks

    Build background knowledge and vocabulary while modeling how skilled readers think using engaging literary and informational texts aligned to each unit topic. In addition to shorter read-alouds provided in the handbook, trade book collections are also available. 

    Y40593-1  img00024

     

  • Texts for Close Reading

    These student consumable books, sometimes called student “magazines,” contain multiple grade-level complex texts on each unit topic. Students engage deeply with these texts as they read, reread, annotate, and build toward an end-of-unit culminating task. 

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  • Knowledge-Building Libraries

    These collections provide students opportunities to expand on their knowledge around the unit topics and explore perspectives in texts writing by diverse, award-winning authors.

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  • My Word Study

    This student book provides the opportunity to interact, apply, and transfer phonics and morphology skills learned during the phonics lesson in unit topic-related passages. Build automaticity activities develop accuracy and fluency with phonics and syllable types.

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  • Teacher's Resource Systems

    These guides provide a roadmap for evidence-based literacy instruction across ten vertically-aligned knowledge building units. Instruction is comprehensive and integrates reading, writing, and word study. 

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  • Assessments

    Track progress and inform instructional next steps with powerful assessments. Weekly,  unit, interim, and performance task assessments are available in printable  and eAssessment format.

      img-eng00012  img00029

  • eAssessments and Reporting

    Assign and automatically score assessments for powerful, actionable data. Robust reports provide insights from the individual to the district level.

    eAssessment

     

  • Texts for Close Reading

    These student consumable books, sometimes called student “magazines,” contain multiple grade-level complex texts on each unit topic. Students engage deeply with these texts as they read, reread, annotate, and build toward an end-of-unit culminating task. 

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  • Read-Aloud Handbooks

    Build background knowledge and vocabulary while modeling how skilled readers think using engaging literary and informational texts aligned to each unit topic. In addition to shorter read-alouds provided in the handbook, trade book collections are also available. 

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  • Knowledge-Building Libraries

    These collections provide students to build knowledge on the unit topics and explore perspectives in texts by diverse, award-winning authors.

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  • My Word Study

    This student resource lets students interact with, practice, and apply phonics and morphology skills learned during the phonics lesson in passages related to the unit topic. Build Automaticity activities develop accuracy and fluency with phonics and syllable types.

     

  • Teacher's Resource Systems

    These guides provide a roadmap for evidence-based literacy instruction across ten vertically-aligned knowledge building units. Instruction is comprehensive and integrates reading, writing, and word study. 

     
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  • Assessments

    Track progress and inform instructional next steps with powerful assessments. Weekly,  unit, interim, and performance task assessments are available in printable  and eAssessment format.

      img-eng00013  img00033

  • eAssessments and Reporting

    Assign and automatically score assessments for powerful, actionable data. Robust reports provide insights from the individual to the district level.

    eAssessment

     

  • Read-Aloud Handbooks

    Build background knowledge and vocabulary while modeling how skilled readers think using engaging literary and informational texts aligned to each unit topic. In addition to shorter read-alouds provided in the handbook, trade book collections are also available. 

    Y40595  img00032

     

  • Texts for Close Reading

    These student consumable books, sometimes called student “magazines,” contain multiple grade-level complex texts on each unit topic. Students engage deeply with these texts as they read, reread, annotate, and build toward an end-of-unit culminating task. 

    Y39910  img00031

     

  • Knowledge-Building Libraries

    These collections provide students to build knowledge on the unit topics and explore perspectives in texts by diverse, award-winning authors.

     

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    • Teacher's Resource Systems

      These guides provide a roadmap for evidence-based literacy instruction across ten vertically-aligned knowledge building units. Instruction is comprehensive and integrates reading, writing, and foundational skills. 

       Y64841_TRS_V1_GK_CV    Benchmark_Advance_2_75_National_TRS_k-1

       

       
    • Assessments

      Track progress and inform instructional next steps with powerful assessments. Weekly,  unit, interim, and performance task assessments are available in printable  and eAssessment format.

       

        img-eng00007  img00006

    • eAssessments and Reporting

      Assign and Automatically score assessments for powerful, actionable date. Robust reports provide insights from the individual to the district level.

       

      eAssessment

       

    • Read-Aloud Handbooks

      Build background knowledge and vocabulary while modeling how skilled readers think using engaging literary and informational texts aligned to each unit topic. In addition to shorter read-alouds provided in the handbook, trade book collections are also available. 

      Y40589  img00002

    • Mentor Read-Aloud Big Books

      These short, complex literary and informational texts support daily close reading/listening comprehension and writing lessons. All texts build knowledge on the unit topic.

        Y40585   img00003

    • Extended Read Big Books

      These full-length, complex literary and informational texts support daily close reading/listening comprehension, vocabulary, and writing lessons. All texts build knowledge on the unit topic. 

        Y01372 img00005

    • Build Reading Foundations Big Books

      These big books support explicit instruction focused on unit and academic vocabulary, print concepts, fluency, foundational skills, and spiral review of previously-taught phonics skills. Poetry selections are also included. 

    • My Reading and Writing

      These student consumable books provide opportunities for students to connect phonics skills to authentic reading and writing. Students move from decoding to encoding and meaning making through built-in gradual release. Each book connects to the unit topic. 

      Y65032_STUB_MRW_GK_U1_CV  Benchmark_Advance_2_75_National_READING_U1_GK_SP-1

    • Decodables

      These decodable texts for small group and independent practice connect directly to the explicit and systematic phonics scope and sequence. Includes fiction and nonfiction titles.

      Cat in CapAna sana a Nina

       

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