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Classic Amplify CKLA and Amplify Caminos

Built on the Science of Reading, Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) sequences deep content knowledge with research-based foundational skills.

Amplify Caminos is an authentic elementary Spanish language arts program for Grades K–5, grounded in the Science of Reading and built from the ground up for the Spanish language.

This site is designed to help you become familiar with Classic Amplify CKLA and Amplify Caminos.

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Getting started

New to Amplify? Start here.

  • Navigating Classic Amplify CKLA and Caminos – There’s a wealth of resources available to you as a CKLA teacher, and they’re all organized for you on the Teacher Resource site. These resources include:
    • Daily and unit planning materials
    • Organization of resources by grade level
    • Printable student-facing documents

Teaching with Classic Amplify CKLA and Caminos

We’ve developed a variety of resources to ensure you have the tools you need to support students in your classroom.
In this section, you’ll find all of the information you need to plan and teach with Classic Amplify CKLA and Caminos.

Exploring Classic Amplify CKLA

New to Classic Amplify CKLA?

Watch this video to review all of the materials used in the program for grades PreK–2, including ancillary materials.

Educator and Student Homes

When you log into Amplify CKLA, you’ll arrive at Educator Home, where you can access all your programs, instructional recommendations, and administrative tools if you’re an administrator.

Students will land on Student Home, where they can view their assigned lessons and activities and personalize their experience with an 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: 

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 Reader.

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.

Pacing and planning

When planning your school year, refer to the Pacing Guide, or Guía de clases, specific to your grade level, found in the Materials section of the Year Overview page or in the Documentos para la planificación on the Teacher Resource Site. These guides provide plans for approximately 38 weeks of instruction and can easily be accessed using the English/Spanish toggle.

Here, 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.

The Scope and Sequence documents, or Alcance y secuencia, provide a detailed overview of the skills and topics for each grade level and their teaching sequence. Refer to these documents to track your progress, plan future objectives, and identify where assessments occur 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 show how you can help your students advance their understanding of the topics.

Assessment and Intervention

Amplify CKLA and Amplify Caminos 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 intervention resources you need to help students facing learning challenges. 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.

Additional resources

Here, you can find additional resources as you continue implementing the program, including tools for engaging your students, opportunities to learn from and engage with other educators, and ways to stay up to date on everything Amplify.

Engage students with learning experiences.

Pacing – What features are available to supplement Classic Amplify CKLA implementation?

To expose students to more Knowledge content, you can share our Read-Aloud videos. To access, click into the Knowledge units and look for the videos in the Daily Instruction tab of the CKLA Teacher Resource site.

To assist you in lesson planning, the PD Library has short video modules for self-paced study prior to the start of the year.

Differentiation – What are good activities to help students who need additional support?

A teacher may choose to do any combination of Pausing Point activities (in grades K–5) in any order, or create other activities that will help review, reinforce, and/or extend the material taught. Pausing Point days include several days’ worth of enrichment and remediation instruction. A wide range of activities can be found in student Activity Books; you can also find guidance in the Pausing Point section of Teacher Guides. In the Skills Strand, additional stories/Reader chapters are included for use during Pausing Points as the teacher chooses—for additional enrichment, practice, or assessment.

When you visit the Intervention Toolkit, you can select from a variety of skills such as Complex Patterns, Comprehension, and Phonological/Phonemic Awareness to access materials for planning instruction, teaching activities, and monitoring student progress.

Students can access the K–5 ebook and audiobook Readers, in addition to other resources, in the Amplify CKLA Hub. The eReader features the complete library of grade-level Amplify CKLA Student Readers in an interactive ebook format to enhance the student multimedia experience and offer additional reading practice.

Assessments – Do you have support and guidance around CKLA assessments?

CKLA has a progression of assessments, from moment-by-moment to benchmark, within core instruction, such as Checks for Understanding and Formative Assessments.

Checks for Understanding are designed to allow you to adjust instruction within the context of the lesson, while Formative Assessments range from in-the-moment adaptation to opportunities for individual, small group, and whole-class reteaching and review.

However, both Checks for Understanding and Formative Assessments also provide information to help you decide whether additional support and practice are appropriate.

CKLA students in grades 3–5 have a large amount of background knowledge, which is vital when it comes to comprehending demanding passages on classroom and state assessments. The Essential Questions and Writing Prompts documents on the curriculum site provide extra writing practice tied to the unit content and can be used as needed to prepare students for writing assessments.

Progress Monitoring

Amplify CKLA provides a range of ways to track student progress, many of which are found in the Teacher Resources section of select Teacher Guides. Some of those include Student Progress Records and Anecdotal Reading Records.

  • Student Progress Record: This form may be used with a large range of student activities to track how students are progressing over time and how their work compares to that of others in the class.
  • Anecdotal Reading Record: It’s important to listen to students read individually on a regular basis; Skills lessons provide daily opportunities for this. Use the Anecdotal Reading Records to record and track student progress.

Professional learning, at your own pace.

  • PD Library: Offers resources for assessing, planning, and implementing Amplify Biliteracy suite, supporting bilingual instruction for Spanish-speaking and multilingual/English learners.
  • Back-to-school webinars: Register to join our Amplify experts as they walk you through program essentials and share guidance for getting started. 
  • Stay one step ahead in Amplify CKLA: Teachers can view relevant recordings to prepare for an upcoming Amplify CKLA unit and hear Amplify experts offer step-by-step guidance on the implementation journey. Administrators can also view relevant recordings to explore tools that support effective classroom implementation.
  • Amplify CKLA professional learning webinars: Level up your Amplify CKLA experience with these webinar recordings.
  • Monthly newsletters: Each month our newsletter features compelling and helpful information: upcoming events, tips for the classroom, educator spotlights, and more.
  • Amplify CKLA Facebook group: Join the community and share ideas with other educators.
  • Amplify blog: Tips, experiences, and solutions from real teachers and industry experts. 
  • Podcast Hub: Explore our popular podcasts in literacy, math, and science; learn from top thought leaders and educators; and discover cross-disciplinary insights to support your instruction.

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