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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 Amplify CKLA and Amplify Caminos.
Quick links
Getting started
New to Amplify? Start here.
- Logging in to Amplify – A step-by-step guide for first-time users and students.
- Navigating 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
- Caregiver Hub – Program overviews and support to share with families.
- New to Amplify CKLA? Watch this video to review all of the materials used in the program for grades PreK–2, including ancillary materials.
Teaching with 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 Amplify CKLA and Caminos.
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 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.
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.
- Kindergarten Lectoescritura and Conocimiento
- Grade 1 Lectoescritura and Conocimiento
- Grade 2 Lectoescritura and Conocimiento
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
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.
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 Apps menu under Tools.
In the classroom
Click through the tabs below to discover tools for engaging your students through all aspects of Amplify CKLA and Caminos.
Pacing and planning
To assist you in implementation, the PD Library has a collection of resources around program structure, pacing, planning, supporting all learners, and so much more!
Here are our top four tips to support lesson pacing:
- Know the lesson
- Plan your pace
- Modify the schedule
- Keep moving
Dive further into each tip by reviewing this pacing guidance document!
Differentiation
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. 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. Check out our dedicated help article for more information!
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 readers in an interactive ebook format to enhance the student multimedia experience and offer additional reading practice.
Assessments
CKLA assessments allow teachers to gain critical information about student mastery of standards-based performance tasks. Formative assessments give teachers the data to amend instruction as needed to meet the diverse needs of learners. Watch the overview of CKLA assessments!
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.
Engagement
Responsibility for learning shifts from teacher to student through four phases: I do it, We do it, You do it together, and You do it alone. When selecting an engagement technique, consider where you are in the lesson and the primary focus of the lesson. Different strategies serve different purposes—some help activate prior knowledge, others support guided practice, and others promote independent application.
Additional resources
Here, you can find additional resources as you continue implementing the program, including opportunities to learn from and engage with other educators, and ways to stay up to date on everything Amplify.
Additional resources
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.
- In Building Real World Connections Using CKLA, four CKLA educators discuss tips and tricks for how to get creative with teaching the program and planning culminating activities for your students.
additional resources
Stay in the know
- 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.
- 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.
- Advice for the Literacy Classroom: Bookmark our YouTube channel packed full of instructional tips and strategies you can put to use in your classroom right away!
- Free downloadable resources: View and download various fun resources, activities, posters, and more (in English and Spanish)!
Need more help?
- Our Help Center contains searchable articles and resources to answer many of your questions.
- If you need additional support, please contact our support team.
Log in at learning.amplify.com, and click the gray chat button in the bottom right corner to chat live with our support team.