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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

Log in to Amplify CKLA Contact Amplify Support

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 – Guidance on what’s new for the 2025-26 school year.
    If you’re a Teacher Resource Site User, please look here for instructional support!
  • 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.

Exploring Amplify CKLA

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 & planning
Differentiation
Assessments
Progress Monitoring

To expose students to more K–2 Knowledge content, you can share our Read-Aloud videos. To access, find them in the Materials section of each Knowledge unit. 

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.

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 an overview of CKLA assessments!

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

As you make plans to celebrate your CKLA units with students with memorable culminating activities, draw inspiration from
the Knowledge Scrapbook!

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.

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.

Professional learning, at your own pace.

  • 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 Live from the Classroom, Amplify experts showcase classroom teaching strategies by showing footage of a Knowledge lesson from a real Grade 2 classroom. 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.
  • 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.
  • Free downloadable resources: View and download various fun resources, activities, posters, and more (in English and Spanish)!

Need more help?

Log in at learning.amplify.com, and click the gray chat button in the bottom right corner to chat live with our support team.