Preparing to teach your Amplify CKLA units
We’ve developed a variety of unit and lesson-level resources to ensure you have the tools you need to support students in developing foundational skills and building background knowledge. In this section, you’ll find information on using Amplify CKLA organized by grade-level.
Note: Login may be required to access some resources.
- Your Amplify CKLA materials
New to Amplify CKLA?
Watch this video to review all of the materials used in the program, including ancillary materials.
Educator and Student Homes
When you log in to Amplify CKLA, Educator Home will be your landing place. Here, teachers will see all their Amplify programs. They will also see recommendations on how to plan, prep, and conduct instruction, class activity, scheduled assignments, and student poll results. Administrators will have direct access to all the products for their school/district, Admin Portal to set up their districts/schools, and Admin Reports to view data.
Student Home is the landing page for all Amplify CKLA students! Here, they will see: recently assigned lessons and activities, scheduled assignments at the date/time chosen by the teacher, their avatar builder, and daily emoji selection!
The Student Hub
The Amplify Hub is a digital experience that connects students to the rich media and apps available in the Amplify CKLA program, including:
- Theater: Students can navigate to the Theater to access Knowledge Builder videos for each grade and unit.
- Sounds: Within the Sound Library, students can access sound cards by unit. On each sound card, students will be able to select a speaker to listen to the sound, a video offering articulation guidance for every phoneme, and a song with a music video.
- Library: The Library allows students access to the complete library of books for each grade level. By selecting a book, students will be able to easily engage with the eReader.
- Preparing to teach PreK–2
CKLA instruction begins with a review from the previous year. We recommend you schedule an additional 30-minute instructional block for unfinished foundational skills instruction from the prior school year. Begin grade-level instruction with Unit 1 in every grade, utilizing recommended instructional minutes.
Amplify in Action videos
If you would like to see CKLA in action, watch these videos to see and hear from educators and students using the program, with each video featuring a strand from Scarborough’s Reading Rope. This collection is provided courtesy of Celina City Schools in Ohio and was created to share their impact story of implementing Amplify literacy resources.
Phonological Awareness, Kindergarten
Instructional resources
Pacing and planning
Pacing Guide
As you start to think about the layout of your school year, use the Pacing Guide specific to the grade level you teach. The Pacing Guides can be found in the Materials section of the Year Overview page. The guides provide plans for about 38 weeks of instruction.
Teacher Planner
In this section, you can also locate the Teacher Planner. The Teacher Planner brings together several resources, including yearly pacing guides, individual lessons and objectives, standards alignments and checklists, and much more.
Scope and Sequence
Lastly, the Scope and Sequence documents in this section provide a more detailed description of the skills and topics of development in each grade level, and the sequence in which the skills are taught! Be sure to refer to this document to see where you are and where you’re going throughout the year. The Scope and Sequence documents also note where assessments are throughout the year.
Curriculum Maps
The Curriculum Maps below are quick overviews of the units you and your students will be working through throughout the year. Next to each unit are downloadable guides that provide a more in-depth look at the content covered and how you can help your students advance their understanding of the topics.
Assessment and intervention
Amplify CKLA assessments allow teachers to gain critical information about student mastery of standards-based performance tasks. Through the use of formative assessment embedded in the Grade K-5 lessons, teachers may amend instruction as needed to meet the diverse needs of learners. Assessments are used to gauge student understanding and application of the skills and knowledge units and domains. Check out the assessment guidance overview for more information!
Amplify’s Intervention Toolkit provides downloadable assessment tools as well as the intervention resources you need to help students catch up after the challenges of the previous year. You can learn more about how to use these assessment and intervention resources here.
- Preparing to teach 3–5
CKLA instruction begins with a review from the previous year. We recommend you schedule an additional 30-minute instructional block for unfinished foundational skills instruction from the prior school year. Begin grade-level instruction with Unit 1 in every grade, utilizing recommended instructional minutes.
Amplify in Action videos
If you would like to see CKLA in action, watch these videos to see and hear from educators and students using the program, with each video featuring a strand from Scarborough’s Reading Rope. This collection is provided courtesy of Celina City Schools in Ohio and was created to share their impact story of implementing Amplify literacy resources.
Background Knowledge, 3rd grade
Background Knowledge, 4th grade
Instructional resources
Pacing and planning
Pacing Guide
As you start to think about the layout of your school year, use the Pacing Guide specific to the grade level you teach. The Pacing Guides can be found in the Materials section of the Year Overview page. The guides provide plans for about 38 weeks of instruction.
Teacher Planner
In this section, you can also locate the Teacher Planner. The Teacher Planner brings together several resources, including yearly pacing guides, individual lessons and objectives, standards alignments and checklists, and much more.
Scope and Sequence
Lastly, the Scope and Sequence documents in this section provide a more detailed description of the skills and topics of development in each grade level, and the sequence in which the skills are taught! Be sure to refer to this document to see where you are and where you’re going throughout the year. The Scope and Sequence documents also note where assessments are throughout the year.
Curriculum Maps
The curriculum maps overviews (below) are quick overviews of the units you and your student will be working through throughout the year. Next to each unit are downloadable guides that provide a more in-depth look at the content covered and how you can help your student advance their understanding of the topics.
Assessment & Intervention
Amplify CKLA assessments allow teachers to gain critical information about student mastery of standards-based performance tasks. Through the use of formative assessment embedded in the Grade K-5 lessons, teachers may amend instruction as needed to meet the diverse needs of learners. Assessments are used to gauge student understanding and
application of the skills and knowledge units and domains. Check out the assessment guidance overview for more information!
Amplify’s Intervention Toolkit provides downloadable assessment tools as well as the intervention resources you need to help students catch up after the challenges of the previous year. You can learn more about how to use these assessment and intervention resources here. Locate the Intervention Toolkit in the Programs & Apps menu under “Tools”.
