Rosemary Hills Elementary School

Benchmark Advance Resources

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Overview of Benchmark Advance

Rosemary Hills ES is one of eleven schools in Montgomery County piloting the 2022 Benchmark Advance reading and writing curriculum. Last year, all school were providing instruction with Benchmark Advance 2018, however with the new 2022 curriculum, the instruction is aligned with Science of Reading research and is a core language arts program that provides a cohesive structure for the development of literacy skills and content knowledge. Every day, students are being taught an explicit and systematic phonics lesson, so all students are provided with foundational literacy skills. Lastly, Benchmark Advance 2022 reaches the needs of each learner and ensures cultural inclusivity.

Here is a letter that went home the first week of school to explain Foundations and Routines within Benchmark Advance: click here.

Accessing Benchmark Universe

Click here to access your child's Benchmark Universe account: https://mcpsmd.benchmarkuniverse.com/

Benchmark Universe Support

Feel free to reach out to your child's reading/writing teacher or our Reading Specialist at Deborah_J_Lee@mcpsmd.org if you have any questions.

Home School Connection Letters

Take-Home Activity Calendars

These are activities you can do with your child after each unit is complete. Each Benchmark Advance is 15 days (there are three weeks in each unit and each week consists of five days).

Please make sure you ask your child about his/her Benchmark Student Consumable so you can see what he/she is learning in school. These consumables will be sent home after the unit is over and you can do the activity!

High Frequency Words

There are words your students are expected to know during each unit.