Benchmark Advance 2.0 provides all students with the opportunity to become avid readers and problem solvers. Students in the primary grades will engage in shared reading experiences. Students in all grade levels will participate in interactive read-alouds, whole group lessons, small group instruction, one-to-one conferring, independent reading, and culminating projects related to their units of study.

Our writing curriculum also allows for opportunities make reading and writing connections. Through the use of mentor authors read aloud during interactive read alouds, students will learn how authors craft many genres of writing. Direct instruction during writing blocks will provide students explicit teaching on how to create narrative, persuasive, and informational texts or essays in the intermediate grades. All students will receive whole group, small group, and one-to-one conferring to support their needs as young authors.

Benchmark Advance 2.0, also provides lessons on foundational skills such as phonological awareness and phonics. Students in grades K-3, will also use Wilson Fundations and Heggerty to supplement the curriculum in these areas on an 'as needed' basis.

All grade levels will have instruction on vocabulary, however, not simply defining a word, but learning about how words work and how to determine the meaning of unknown words.

Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards wrap the content areas of science and social studies around ELA standards which provides greater opportunity for students to delve deeper into their learning about the world around them as readers and writers. The Next Generation Sunshine Standards in Science and Social Studies are used for explicit instruction, as well. Our science curriculum is elevateScience and for social studies, Gallopade. All curriculum can be accessed through ClassLink. Our teachers always find ways to incorporate unique activities that align to the standards and keep our students engaged in learning.