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Teach your students to think critically about everything they read.

Amplify’s middle school literacy programs were designed to prepare students in grades 6–8 for high school and beyond by immersing them in complex texts and teaching them to think for themselves about everything they read. Learn more about Amplify ELA (our core English language arts curriculum) and Boost Close Reading (our supplemental reading program).

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Amplify ELA

Amplify ELA is a blended English language arts curriculum designed for grades 6–8. With Amplify ELA, students learn to tackle any complex text and make observations, grapple with interesting ideas, and build connections.

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Boost Close Reading

Boost Close Reading is an immersive supplemental reading program that engages students with an interactive graphic novel. Through high-interest storytelling and guided instruction, students build their close reading skills.

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Our early literacy suite programs based on the Science of Reading are designed to support and complement each other. Learn more about integrated programs below.

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Amplify CKLA

Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) is a language arts program for Grade…

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mCLASS is an assessment and instruction system that helps measure your child’s l…

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Amplify CKLA 3rd Edition Pilot Packs

Middle-of-year pilot

We know it can be overwhelming to start a new curriculum, but we’re here to help every step of the way! Within this site, you’ll find resources to help you get started before your implementation training, including a materials checklist, unit and domain summaries, support videos, and more. These tools will support your core literacy instruction with Amplify CKLA during your pilot period. We hope this site is helpful in getting you started.

Middle-of-year pilot
Get started

To get started with your new pilot of Amplify CKLA 3rd Edition, you’ll first want to review the following:

You may also find the resources below helpful as you begin your pilot:

Access key materials designed to support your review of Amplify CKLA 3rd Edition.

Amplify CKLA’s all-in-one digital platform offers essential tools that streamline instruction for teachers and engage students with meaningful content. Teachers can plan and deliver lessons efficiently, while students can access assignments, assessments, and fun practice games.

Presentation Screens
Deliver interactive lessons with ready-made, customizable slides for every lesson.

Auto-scored digital assessments
Assess vocabulary, comprehension, and knowledge development at the end of each K–2 Knowledge and 3–5 Integrated Unit.

Standards-based reports
Identify strengths and growth areas for individuals or your entire class. Interactive dashboards offer detailed results from assessments and activities.

Skill-building practice games
Engage students with interactive games that reinforce concepts and make learning fun. Powered by Boost Reading™, these games align with lessons and provide real-time feedback.

eReader
Students access texts, take notes, and use audio-enabled eReaders to enhance their reading experience.

Sound Library
Students watch articulation videos and listen to songs for each sound to support phonological awareness.

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Middle-of-year Pilot Pack materials

Below are the components of your Amplify CKLA Pilot Pack, organized by grade level and teacher/student materials. Please click on your grade level to review the teacher and student materials listed and verify that all items have been received.

A spiral-bound book cover titled "Skills 5" with a large number 5 in the center, surrounded by images of a cat, chair, bugs, and a hat, on a pink background.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 5 Teacher Guide
A kindergarten teacher guide titled "Skills 6" with illustrations of a cat, insects, a hat, and phonetic symbols on a pink background.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 6 Teacher Guide
Red spiral notebook cover titled "Skills 7" with illustrations of a cat, insects, a hat, and various symbols.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 7 Teacher Guide
Illustrated book cover titled "Ox and Man" with a man riding an ox, followed by two people, set in a vibrant landscape.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 5 Big Book
Illustrated underwater scene with a child wearing goggles, surrounded by colorful fish and coral. The word "kit" is at the top of the image.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 6 Big Book
Illustration of three animated characters in a flying car above a futuristic cityscape with the name "Seth" in the sky.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 7 Big Book
Educational card cover for "Small Letter Cards" from Amplify CKLA. Pink background with various icons including a hat, cat, insects, and phonetic symbols. Grade K marked in the corner.

Teacher materials

Small Letter Card Set
Red cover of a language learning book featuring a cat, hat, table, fruits, and insects with speech bubbles containing phonetic symbols. Text reads “Amplify CKLA” and “Skills Large Letter Cards.”.

Teacher materials

Large Letter Card Set
Illustrated poster with a cat, insects, a hat, and a table with an apple. Features phonetic symbols /a/, /e/, and /u/. Text reads "Amplify CKLA" and "Skills Sound Posters, Grade K".

Teacher materials

Sound Posters Sample
A red card labeled "Sound Cards" with images of a cat, insect, hat, and food, speech bubbles with "/u/", and an ISBN barcode; labeled "Amplify CKLA Grade K.

Teacher materials

Sound Cards Sample
Illustrated book cover of "The Five Senses" shows people enjoying activities in a park, such as playing music, picnicking, and interacting with animals.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 2 Teacher Guide
Illustrated book cover titled "Underdogs and Heroes: Stories." Features a child playing violin, animals, and a farmhouse in the background. Part of Amplify CKLA Knowledge 3 for Grade K.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 3 Teacher Guide
Cover of a geography teacher guide titled "All Around the World: Geography," featuring images of a globe, landscapes, and people.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 7 Teacher Guide
Cover of "Shaped by Nature: Art and the World Around Us" teacher guide for Grade K. Features colorful art supplies and nature imagery.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 10 Teacher Guide
Illustration of people in a park: children playing, adults with a barbecue, a man playing guitar, a food truck, and a person with a black dog. Text: "Knowledge 2 - The Five Senses".

Teacher materials

Knowledge 2 Image Cards
Illustrated book cover with farm animals, a child playing the violin, and a pink building in the background. Title: "Underdogs and Heroes: Stories.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 3 Image Cards
Cover of "All Around the World: Geography" book, featuring a globe, children, and photos of various landscapes and cities.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 7 Image Cards
Cover of "The First Drawing" by Mordicai Gerstein, featuring a prehistoric child drawing a mammoth on a cave wall, with a torch illuminating the scene.

Teacher materials

The First Drawing
Illustrated book cover titled "van Gogh and the Sunflowers" by Laurence Anholt, featuring a drawn man and child holding sunflowers.

Teacher materials

Van Gogh and the Sunflowers
Illustrated book cover titled "My Name is Georgia" by Jeanette Winter, featuring a woman holding a red flower against a sky with clouds.

Teacher materials

My Name is Georgia
The book cover features "A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa" by Andrea D'Aquino, with abstract art and a flower design.

Teacher materials

A Life Made by Hand
Book cover of "Rainbow Weaver" featuring an illustrated girl with long hair in a colorful woven outfit, set against a bright sky. Authored by Linda Elovitz Marshall, illustrated by Elisa Chavarri.

Teacher materials

Rainbow Weaver/Tejedora del Arcoiris
Book cover of "Luna Loves Art" by Joseph Coelho and Fiona Lumbers, featuring a girl with art supplies and colorful splashes.

Teacher materials

Luna Loves Art

Cover of "Amplify CKLA" Skills activity book for Grade K, featuring illustrations of insects, a cat, and a hat on a pink background with phonetic symbols.

Student materials

Skills Unit 5, 6 and 7 Activity Book Sample
Illustration of a diver swimming among colorful fish and coral under the sea with the word "Kit" at the top.

Student materials

Skills Unit 6 Reader
A cartoon family rides in a green futuristic flying car, surrounded by tall skyscrapers and colorful sky elements. The name "Seth" is in the sky.

Student materials

Skills Unit 7 Reader
Pink sample cover for the Amplify CKLA Skills Chaining Folder. Features a cat, hat, ladybug, bee, and dragonfly illustrations, along with phonetic symbols and a warning: "FOR REVIEW PURPOSES ONLY.

Student materials

Chaining Folder
A kindergarten picture reader book with images of a cat, hat, insects, table with vase, and phonetic symbols on a pink background.

Student materials

Picture Reader Sample
Red Amplify CKLA activity book cover featuring a globe, sunflowers, and a list of contents related to geography and art.

Student materials

Knowledge 2, 3, 7 and 10 Activity Book Sample
Yellow book cover titled "Skills 2" with illustrations of a frog, knight, and coins. Part of Amplify CKLA, Grade 1, Unit 2.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide
Cover of "Skills 3 Teacher Guide" with a large number 3. Features images of coins, a planet, a knight, and a frog. Various phonetic symbols are scattered in the background.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 3 Teacher Guide
Cover of a workbook titled "Skills 4" featuring a large number 4, a knight, a frog, coins, a moon, and various phonetic symbols on an orange background.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 4 Teacher Guide
Illustrated book cover titled "Gran" showing an older woman hugging two children in front of a house.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 2 Big Book
Illustration of a fox reading a book titled "Fables" to a rabbit and squirrel in a forest clearing with sunlight filtering through the trees.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 3 Big Book
Cover of a workbook titled "From Nose to Toes: How Your Body Works," featuring X-ray images of skeletons and organs on a spiral-bound teacher guide.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 2 Teacher Guide
Textbook cover titled "Common Threads: Different Lands, Similar Stories," with illustrations of three children exploring nature, including a large mushroom and vibrant flowers.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 3 Teacher Guide
Cover of "Charting the World: Geography" teacher guide, featuring a hand-drawn world map with colored pins, a compass, and pencils.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 5 Teacher Guide
Cover of "Adventure Stories: Tales from the Edge" showing Earth's view with space paraphernalia and an inset of a historic building and explorers on brown horses.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 10 Teacher Guide
Educational book cover featuring X-ray images, cartoon organs, and germs. Title: "From Nose to Toes: How Your Body Works," Grade 1. Includes a cartoon of a brain in a skull.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 2 Image Cards
Illustrated book cover showing characters exploring a vibrant woodland with large mushrooms and plants. Title: "Common Threads: Different Lands, Similar Stories." Grade 1, Amplify CKLA.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 3 Image Cards
A geography workbook cover featuring a hand-drawn world map, various papers, a magnifying glass, a compass, and pencils on a wooden table.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 5 Image Cards
Educational chart for Grade 1 consonants showing pronunciation and examples like "g" in "gag" and "ch" in "chip.

Teacher materials

Code Poster Set
Cover of a yellow booklet titled "Skills Spelling Cards" with images of coins, a frog, a robot, the moon, and phonetic symbols.

Teacher materials

Spelling Card Set
Yellow educational card with a knight, frog, coins, moon, speech bubbles with phonetic symbols, and text that reads "Amplify CKLA" and "Skills Large Letter Cards.

Teacher materials

Large Letter Card Set
Book cover titled "My Name is Gabito" by Monica Brown, illustrated by Raúl Colón, featuring a boy reaching for a book under a tree.

Teacher materials

My Name is Gabito/Me llamo Gabito
Book cover of "Tomas and the Galapagos Adventure" by Carolyn Lunn, illustrated by Ashley Rades, featuring a child with a turtle and a volcanic island in the background.

Teacher materials

Tomas and the Galapagos Adventure
Book cover of "The Astronaut with a Song for the Stars," showing a person playing a flute in a spacecraft.

Teacher materials

The Astronaut with a Song
for the Stars: The Story of Dr. Ellen Ochoa
Book cover of "Mae Among the Stars" featuring an illustration of a child in a space suit against a starry background.

Teacher materials

Mae Among the Stars
Illustrated book cover titled "Shark Lady" showing a woman in scuba gear swimming with a shark, surrounded by fish and ocean plants.

Teacher materials

Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean’s Most Fearless Scientist
Cover of "Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau" by Jennifer Berne, featuring an illustration of a diver with fish, set against a deep blue background.

Teacher materials

Manfish
Book cover of "Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson" featuring an illustration of Henson in polar gear with a dog, a sun, and a flag. Written by Deborah Hopkinson, illustrated by Stephen Alcorn.

Teacher materials

Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson, Co-Discoverer of the North Pole
Book cover titled "The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest" by Steve Jenkins, featuring an illustration of a climber on a snowy peak with mountains in the background.

Teacher materials

The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest

Cover of a book titled "Amplify CKLA Skills Units 2-4 Activity Book" with images of a moon, coins, a frog, and a knight on a yellow background.

Student materials

Unit 2, 3 and 4 Skills Activity Book Sample
Illustration of a smiling person wearing glasses hugging two children under a tree, with a house and text "Gran" in the background.

Student materials

Skills Unit 2 Reader
Illustrated book cover titled "Fables" features a fox reading to forest animals in a woodland setting.

Student materials

Skills Unit 3 Reader
Book cover titled "The Green Fern Zoo" featuring illustrations of various animals against a leafy background.

Student materials

Skills Unit 4 Reader
Cover of an activity book titled "Amplify CKLA." It features an open book with a person, a space shuttle, and nature in the background. A list of knowledge themes is included.

Student materials

Knowledge 2, 3, 5 and 10 Activity Book Sample
Green book cover titled "Skills 2" with a large number 2, featuring images of a crow, acorn, gloves, and a pencil.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide
Green workbook cover titled "Skills 3" with images of a crow, acorn, pencil, and gloves. Grade 2.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 3 Teacher Guide
Book cover for "Skills 4 Teacher Guide" from Amplify CKLA, Grade 2, featuring a large number 4, a crow, acorn, pencil, mitten, and various symbols on a green background.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 4 Teacher Guide
A chart displays various vowel sounds with phonetic symbols and example letter combinations on a green and white background labeled "Vowels.

Teacher materials

Code Posters
Green educational card cover with a crow, acorn, pencil, mittens, and phonetic symbols. Title: "Amplify CKLA Skills Spelling Cards, Grade 2.

Teacher materials

Spelling Card Set
Book cover titled "Fortunes and Feats: Fairy Tales and Tall Tales" featuring a knight, a dragon, a train, and a castle in a whimsical landscape.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 1 Teacher Guide
Cover of "Butterflies, Bees, and Beetles: Insects" teacher guide, featuring a colorful illustration of various insects and flowers against a sky background.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 5 Teacher Guide
Cover of a book titled "Sounds and Stanzas: Poetry" with whimsical illustrations of animals and leaves emerging from an open book. It is labeled as a Teacher Guide, Level 2.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 7 Teacher Guide
Cover of "Taking Flight: The Age of Aviation" teacher guide. It features a propeller, hot air balloons, a blimp, and a sunrise above clouds.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 10 Teacher Guide
Cover of a book titled "Butterflies, Bees, and Beetles: Insects" featuring various insects, flowers, and grass under a blue sky.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 5 Image Cards
Colorful book cover with a person reading, surrounded by illustrated animals and autumn leaves. Text reads, "Amplify CKLA, Knowledge 7, Sounds and Stanzas: Poetry, Image Cards.

Teacher materials

Knowledge 7 Image Cards
Children's book cover of "Up and Away!" by Jason Henry, featuring a whimsical illustration of a flying ship with two characters and colorful birds.

Teacher materials

Up and Away! How Two Brothers Invented the Hot Air Balloon
Illustration of Louis Blériot's historic flight across the English Channel in a vintage aircraft, with people preparing the plane.

Teacher materials

The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis
Book cover of "The Flying Girl: How Aida de Acosta Learned to Soar" by Margarita Engle, illustrated by Sara Palacios, showing a girl flying an early aircraft with birds nearby.

Teacher materials

The Flying Girl: How Aída de Acosta Learned to Soar
Book cover titled "Wood, Wire, Wings." A woman looks at flying airplanes. Authors: Kirsten W. Larson and illustrator Tracy Subisak. Subheading: "Emma Lilian Todd Invents an Airplane.

Teacher materials

Wood, Wire, Wings: Emma Lilian Todd Invents an Airplane
Cover of "Helicopter Man" shows a helicopter silhouette against a sunset, with a black-and-white photo of a man holding a hat. Title in yellow, author Ellen B. text included.

Teacher materials

Helicopter Man: Igor Sikorsky and His Amazing Invention
Illustrated book cover titled "The Tuskegee Airmen Story" by Lynn M. Homan and Thomas Reilly. It shows a pilot in front of an aircraft named "Boss Lady.

Teacher materials

The Tuskegee Airmen Story
Cover of "Skyward" by Sally Deng, featuring illustrations of female pilots and planes from WWII. Subheading: "The Story of Female Pilots in WWII." Published by Flying Eye Books.

Teacher materials

Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII
Book cover titled Book cover of "Aim for the Skies" featuring portraits of Jerrie Mock and Joan Merriam Smith with an illustration of Amelia Earhart in the background.

Teacher materials

Aim for the Skies: Jerrie Mock and Joan Merriam Smith’s Race to Complete Amelia Earhart’s Quest
Cover of a book titled "Amplify CKLA, Units 2-3, Activity Book." The green background features a crow, acorn, pencil, gloves, and phonetic symbols.

Student materials

Skills Unit 2 and 3 Activity Book Sample
A green activity book cover labeled “Skills Unit 4” features a pencil, a raven, an acorn, a mitten, and phonetic symbols. The top left corner displays the Amplify CKLA logo.

Student materials

Skills Unit 4 Activity Book Sample
Illustrated book cover titled "Bedtime Tales" featuring a bearded man with two children sitting on a patterned quilt.

Student materials

Skills Unit 2 Reader
Illustrated book cover titled "Kids Excel" shows children playing double Dutch jump rope in a park setting.

Student materials

Skills Unit 3 Reader
A woman and a boy walk together on a city sidewalk. The woman is smiling and holding papers; the boy is wearing a red shirt and looks happy. Text reads "The Job Hunt.

Student materials

Skills Unit 4 Reader
Green cover of an Amplify CKLA Grade 2 Activity Book featuring a hot air balloon, magnifying glass, and list of knowledge topics.

Student materials

Knowledge 1, 5, 7 and 10 Activity Book Sample
A textbook cover titled "Fur, Fins, and Feathers: Animal Classification." It features illustrations of various animals in a lush forest and pond setting.

Teacher materials

Unit 2 Teacher Guide
A book cover titled "Rhythm and Rhyme: Poetry" for Grade 3. It features an illustration of a pond with butterflies, a frog, and water lilies.

Teacher materials

Unit 3 Teacher Guide
Textbook cover titled "Unit 6: Regions and Cultures: Native Americans" with various related images including landscapes, dwellings, and icebergs, and a Teacher Guide note.

Teacher materials

Unit 6 Teacher Guide
Cover of "Novel Study: Charlotte's Web" teacher guide, featuring a barn scene with farm tools, a spider web, ribbons, a jug, and a picnic table.

Teacher materials

Unit 7 Teacher Guide
Illustrated cover showing various Native American scenes, including boats, wildlife, a longhouse, and traditional dwellings. Text reads "Regions and Cultures: Native Americans, Unit 6, Grade 3.

Teacher materials

Unit 6 Image Cards
Illustrated cover of a book titled "Rhythm and Rhyme: Poetry" featuring a pond with butterflies, lily pads, and a barcode at the bottom left. Grade 3 and "Amplify CKLA" are noted in the corner.

Teacher materials

Unit 3 Image Cards
Cover of an activity book titled "Amplify CKLA" with images of a deer, parrot, and elephant, over a blue background.

Student materials

Unit 2 and 6 Activity Book Sample
Book cover of "Rhythm and Rhyme: Poetry" featuring a pond with butterflies and lilies. Upper left corner shows "Amplify CKLA Grade 3.

Student materials

Poet’s Journal
Cover of "Novel Study: Charlotte's Web" activity book showing a barn scene with farm decorations, a sneaker, and a window view of a pasture.

Student materials

Unit 7 Activity Book Sample
Illustrated book cover titled "Rattenborough’s Guide to Animals," featuring a jungle scene with a monkey, parrot, leopard, pelican, and alligator.

Student materials

Unit 2 Reader
Book cover titled "Regions and Cultures: Native Americans," featuring images of indigenous landscapes, canoes, teepees, and dwellings. Grade 3, Unit 6.

Student materials

Unit 6 Reader
Cover of "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White, showing a girl holding a pig with a medal award graphic and anniversary edition label.

Student materials

Charlotte’s Web
Cover of a teacher guide titled "Meaning and Metaphor: Poetry" featuring bookshelves with colorful, imaginative illustrations.

Teacher materials

Unit 3 Teacher Guide
Textbook cover titled "Our Planet: Geology" featuring a volcano with lava, surrounded by forests, part of a 4th-grade curriculum unit from Amplify CKLA.

Teacher materials

Unit 5 Teacher Guide
Illustrated book cover titled "Road to Independence: The American Revolution." Shows a candle-lit desk with parchment, a quill, and a pendulum clock by a window with stars.

Teacher materials

Unit 6 Teacher Guide
Cover of a teacher guide titled "Novel Study: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" featuring a bookshelf and various items.

Teacher materials

Unit 7 Teacher Guide
Book cover titled "Meaning and Metaphor: Poetry" for Grade 4. Features colorful illustrations of animals and trees among books on a shelf. Badge says "Poet's Journal.

Student materials

Poet’s Journal
Cover of an Amplify CKLA activity book featuring a volcano, kite, and candle illustrations. Text indicates topics: our planet, geology, road to independence, and the American Revolution.

Student materials

Unit 5 and 6 Activity Book Sample
Activity book cover for Grade 4 Unit 7, "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler." Features a bookshelf with various items and view of a cityscape through a window.

Student materials

Unit 7 Activity Book Sample
Textbook cover titled "The Changing Earth," unit 5, grade 4. It features an erupting volcano with a cross-section view.

Student materials

Unit 5 Reader
Book cover titled "Road to Independence" from "Amplify CKLA Grade 4, Unit 6." Features a historical setting with quill, candle, and clock by a window at night.

Student materials

Unit 6 Reader
Cover of "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" featuring two children on a red carpeted museum staircase.

Student materials

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Cover of a teacher's guide titled "Early Americas: Maya, Aztec, and Inca," featuring images of temples, mountains, a bird, and cacti.

Teacher materials

Unit 2 Teacher Guide
Cover of a teacher guide titled "Visions in Verse: Poetry." Features a scenic landscape with birds, trees, and a pond, plus a pink spiral binding on the left.

Teacher materials

Unit 3 Teacher Guide
Cover of "The Deep Blue World: Oceans" teacher guide featuring illustrations of marine life, including a whale shark, turtle, and various fish. The background is a vibrant ocean scene.

Teacher materials

Unit 5 Teacher Guide
Book cover titled "The Phantom Tollbooth," featuring a room with a bookshelf and a window showing a fantastical landscape.

Teacher materials

Unit 7 Teacher Guide
Purple textbook cover titled "Early Americas: Maya, Aztec, and Inca" for Grade 5, Unit 2. Features an illustration of a city, a bird, and a hand.

Student materials

Unit 2 Activity Book Sample
Activity book cover titled "The Deep Blue World: Oceans" with illustrations of a diver, sea creatures, and an open book on a purple background.

Student materials

Unit 5 Activity Book Sample
Cover of a poetry journal titled "Visions in Verse" for Grade 5, featuring a tree, birds, and a snake in a colorful landscape.

Student materials

Poet’s Journal
Cover of the "Novel Study: The Phantom Tollbooth" activity book, featuring a colorful room with bookshelves, toys, and a scenic painting on the wall.

Student materials

Unit 7 Activity Book Sample
Textbook cover titled "Early Americas: Civilizations and Empires" for Grade 5, featuring images of ancient ruins, landscapes, and a cactus.

Student materials

Unit 2 Reader
Textbook cover titled "Life in the Fathoms" featuring a diver, various sea creatures, and colorful coral reefs.

Student materials

Unit 5 Reader
Cover of "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster, featuring a boy peering into a large clock held by a dog with a clock face.

Student materials

The Phantom Tollbooth

Access the Amplify CKLA all-in-one digital platform

Teachers and students piloting CKLA 3rd Edition will receive login information to access the digital platform.

If you have not received your login information please contact your administrative team. If you are in charge of licensing and enrollment for your school/district and have not received login information please reach out to your account representative or help@amplify.com.

Contact us

Contact your account executive to sign up for implementation training.

Puyallup families, welcome to Amplify CKLA!

Welcome to the Amplify CKLA Caregiver Hub for Puyallup School District. This site is designed to help you learn about Amplify CKLA—a core English Language Arts curriculum.

We want to hear from you! Please share your thoughts by completing this district survey.

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What is Amplify CKLA?

Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) is a language arts program for Grades PreK-5 that combines a multi-sensory approach to phonics with rich texts carefully sequenced to build content knowledge—so that students learn to read and read to learn at the same time. 

Every day in Grades PreK–2, students complete one full lesson that builds foundational reading skills, as well as one full lesson that builds background knowledge. In Grades 3–5, students start to master the skills of reading, further opening up their worlds.

Illustrative circles depicting educational stages from prek to grade 5, each showing children engaged in age-appropriate activities or learning themes.

CKLA in Action

There’s no better way to understand the power of Amplify CKLA than seeing it in action. Watch Ms. Lehman’s second graders in the video below as they learn how to decode and spell words with the long /ā/ sound.

Unit Overviews

Below are quick overviews of the units your student will be working through in their grade throughout the year. Next to each unit are downloadable guides which provide a more in-depth look at the content covered and how you can help your student advance their understanding of the topics.

Kindergarten Knowledge Curriculum 

Kindergarten Skills Curriculum

Grade 1 Knowledge Curriculum

Grade 1 Skills Curriculum

Grade 2 Knowledge Curriculum

Grade 2 Skills Curriculum

Grade 3 Curriculum Overview

Grade 4 Curriculum Overview

Grade 5 Curriculum Overview

Materials overview

Amplify CKLA is a blended program, which means your student will be interacting with both print and digital materials.

Print materials

Student Readers

These readers are uniquely designed to provide intensive practice while reading simple but authentic stories. All readers are also available as ebooks and audiobooks on the teacher resource site, which caregivers can now access.

In grades K-2, these readers are chapter books that allow students to practice just-learned sound-spellings within an authentic reading experience that incorporates compelling plots and interesting characters.

In grades 3-5, readers develop close reading and other literacy skills through a selection of diverse, content-rich literary and informational texts.

A collage of kindergarten-level reading books titled Kit and Seth, with illustrated pages showing children, plants, and scenes of reading and eating grapes and cake.
Grade 1 reading materials featuring illustrated children, a Snapshots cover, two open storybooks showing kids and activities, and a page about a holiday with text and drawings.
Open educational book for grade 2, showing illustrations and text about a chicken nugget story and the war of 1812.

Student Activity Books

Part of the daily lessons, these activity pages ask students to respond to the text they’ve read and apply skills and knowledge. They also include assessments that track students’ skills development, to which teachers have access.

Two illustrated pages titled Knowledge 1-6 and Knowledge 7-12, each showing colorful scenes representing different educational topics in numbered circles.

Digital materials

CKLA Hub for grades K–5

We are excited to announce that students will be able to access multimedia resources and engage in a new digital experience on the CKLA Hub. Unlike ever before, students can access digital resources independently from anywhere, taking full advantage of the instructional multimedia experiences that Amplify CKLA has to offer. Students can access the Hub at home, in the classroom, and on the go, making it ideal for remote learning. It’s compatible with laptops, Chromebooks, tablets, and desktops—we’ve also optimized it for mobile devices.

Knowledge Builder videos for grades K–2

Each Knowledge Domain starts with a Knowledge Builder video: a short, fun, animated story that enriches the lesson and motivates students with new characters, places, and concepts.

A cartoon scientist stands next to a sparking robot in a laboratory, displayed on a laptop screen with purple-themed laboratory equipment in the background.

Recorded daily read-alouds for grades K–2

Teachers and students will have access to video recordings of all K–2 Knowledge Read-Alouds with pictures from the Flip Books.

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Sound Library for grades K-2

The Sound Library uses audio sounds, catchy songs, and animated articulation videos to help students learn and master sounds.

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Foundational Skills Boost for grades 1–3

Designed for grades 1–3, these video-based, self-guided lessons target critical foundational skills from the previous year’s instruction in order to fill in any gaps. They offer approximately nine weeks of instruction organized as daily lessons, with additional teacher-led small-group activities and family resources.

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Vocab App for grades 3-5

The Vocabulary App is designed for independent practice with vocabulary. Students can use the Vocabulary App for game-like activities that challenge them.

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Quests for grades 3–5

Each of the grade levels in 3–5 contains a Core Quest. In these special units, all the normal rules of the classroom change, and students engage with language in surprising new ways. For example, in grade 5, they learn to love the dense Shakespearian language of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through imagery, close reading, and performance.

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Support your child at home

Read and talk at home

  • If possible, read with your child daily; even 15 minutes of reading together each day can make a huge impact. 
  • You can read sections of the text aloud together. If your child struggles, you might try reading the text to them with expression, and then have them read it aloud back to you. 
  • For additional practice, watch the recorded read-alouds with your K-2 student or have your grade 3-5 student use the Vocabulary App. 
  • Find moments to discuss what they are reading and discovering. Examples of questions you could ask: What stood out to you from what you read today? Were any sentences or words confusing? What was most surprising? What do you think the writer was trying to communicate? Do you agree with the writer’s ideas or descriptions? What connections can you make between what you are reading and your own life or other issues?
  • Listen to your child read their written responses or have them share with a friend over video chat. 
  • We recommend reviewing this Protecting Kids Online article by the Federal Trade Commission addressing digital safety.

Skills practice at home

We’ve developed a set of resources for caregivers to use with their students that includes instructions and materials to teach and practice grade-level phonics at home. Resources include sound videos, Readers, and a how-to video with editable instructions that caregivers can customize to meet individual student needs.

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Where to go for help

Whether you have questions about your technology or want to know more about the program, Amplify’s Support Team is here to help!

Contact Support via telephone at (833) 97-Care-8 (833-972-2738) or caregiver@amplify.com.

Our support hours are Monday – Friday, 7 am – 9 PM ET, and Sunday, 10 – 6 ET.

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Welcome, Oakland Steering Committee!

Thank you for considering Caminos Lectoescritura—our new authentic Spanish skills program for grades K–2.

Within this site, you’ll find:

  • Large-grain resources: Program overview, research basis, and scope and sequence
  • Medium-grain resources: Program components and digital supports.
  • Small-grain resources: Digital navigation support and demo account access.
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Large-grain resources

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

The Lectoescritura strand of Amplify Caminos provides explicit, systematic foundational skills instruction that was distinctly developed with the Spanish language in mind.

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Program guide

Learn more about key program features and how the program works.

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Research brief

Learn more about the research behind Amplify Caminos.

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Program scope and sequence

Explore how the program unfolds and builds over the course of the year.

Medium-grain resources

Amplify Caminos is not a direct translation of Amplify CKLA—the English language arts counterpart to Caminos.

Instead, it features an instructional pathway, scope and sequence, and set of components that address the unique ways in which students learn the Spanish language—whether in the classroom or learning from home.

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Program components

Take a closer look at the program’s authentically designed components.

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Spanish Decodable Readers

Our authentic decodable readers play a key role in developing foundational skill…

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Digital components

Learn more about the digital experience coming soon for the 2023 school year.

Small-grain resources

In addition to reviewing the printed resources shipped to the district, we’ve created a digital demo site for you to explore grade-level materials. Simply follow the steps below to get started.
 
Step 1: Watch this video >
This video provides a walkthrough of how to navigate our Teacher Resource site.

Demo access

Step 2: Explore the site

  • Click the orange button below to access the site.
  • Enter this username: t1.k5cklacaminos@demo.tryamplify.net
  • Enter this password: Amplify1-k5cklacaminos
  • When prompted, select your desired grade level.
  • Next, click the Daily Instruction link in the top right navigation bar.
  • Then, click the Español button above the navigation menu on the left side of the page.
  • Last, click on any Lectoescritura unit tile to explore the Teacher Guide, Student Activity Book, and Digital Materials for that unit.
Access the Teacher Resource site

Contact us

Support is always within reach. Our team is dedicated to supporting Oakland USD and can be reached at any time by emailing or calling us directly.

Lisa Marinovich

Senior Account Executive

(831) 461-4187

lmarinovich@amplify.com

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Biliteracy Specialist

(805) 345-6024

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Math resources that tap into your students’ curiosity

As a teacher, you create a collaborative math community with students at its center.

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Amplify Desmos Math

Complete core program (Grades K–12)

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A new, curiosity-driven K–12 program that builds lifelong math proficiency.

Amplify Desmos Math provides:

  • The ability to transform every classroom into an engaged math community that invites, values, and develops student thinking.
  • Supports and guidance for teachers to systematically build from students’ prior knowledge to grade-level learning.
  • Actionable, asset-based data that informs instruction and personalizes learning, building on what students already know.
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Amplify Classroom

Free teaching and learning platform (Grades K–12)

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Amplify Classroom is an interactive teaching and learning platform with hundreds of free K–12 lessons, virtual manipulatives, and teaching tools. With a free teacher account, you can access:

  • Interactive lessons and activities that strengthen classroom learning while building math fact-fluency
  • Polypad virtual manipulatives that allow you to model mathematical concepts in a creative way.
  • A Teacher Dashboard with real-time visuals that provide visibility into student thinking.
  • A lesson-building tool where you can customize or create your own lessons.
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mCLASS® Math

Screening and progress monitoring (Grades K–8)

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Expect more from your assessments with mCLASS® Math, a complete K–8 benchmark and progress monitoring assessment system. mCLASS Math provides educators not only with reliable measures of student achievement, but also with an asset-based approach that analyzes student responses to uncover underlying mathematical thinking.

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Boost Math

Targeted intervention and practice (Grades K–8)

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Boost Math is a K–8 intervention and practice math program that brings grade-level, core-aligned math within reach for every learner. By turning assessment data into targeted learning pathways connected to core math topics, Boost Math helps streamline MTSS and support teachers in delivering the right instruction at the right time.

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Phonological awareness games

In Cut It Out, students isolate individual phonemes by listening to a beginning, middle, or ending sound and choosing a picture of the word containing the sound in that position.

Skills
Phonological awareness

  • Blending at the compound word, syllable, onset-rime, and phoneme level

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.2.C — Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.D — Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words.1 (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)

In Gem & Nye, students blend sounds into words, starting with compound words and syllables and then moving to beginning (onset) and ending (rime) sounds and finally individual phonemes, to identify the picture of the word the Soundbots say when blended together.

Skills
Phonological awareness

  • Blending at the compound word, syllable, onset-rime, and phoneme level

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.2.B — Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.B — Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.C — Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.

In Wordbots, students practice segmenting words into their onsets and rimes to determine which Startbots and Endbots form a stimulus word.

Skills
Phonological awareness

  • Segment at the compound-word and onset-rime level

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.C — Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.B — Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.

In Zoom Boom, students practice rhyming by listening to a word and identifying the picture of the word that rhymes with it.

Skills
Phonological awareness

  • Rhyming

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.A — Recognize and produce rhyming words.

Phonics Games in Amplify Reading: K–2

In Curioso Crossing, students practice accurate and automatic word recognition by identifying the correct spoken word to guide their Curioso safely throughout the land.

Skills
Phonics – Early Decoding; Advanced Decoding

  • Read high-frequency irregular words, regular words, words with inflected endings, two-syllable words, words with prefixes and suffixes, and multi-syllable words

Standards Covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.B — Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.B — Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.C — Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.E — Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.F — Read words with inflectional endings.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.3.A — Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.3.C — Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.3.D — Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.3.F — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.C — Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.G — Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

In Food Truck, students practice “chopping” blends, ending sounds (rimes), and whole words into beginning sounds (onsets), ending sounds, and individual letters to create orders for their hungry goblin customers. The difficulty of words and segmenting tasks increases with each level as customers order more sophisticated “dishes.”

Skills
Phonics – Early Decoding

  • Decode and spell words with common rime families

Standards Covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.A — Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.B — Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.D — Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.E — Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.B — Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.

In Grumpy Goblins, students learn sound-spelling correspondences for consonant digraphs and vowel teams by listening to a sound from a goblin and feeding it the piece of toast with the corresponding letter or combination.

Skills
Phonics – Letter Combinations

  • Sound-spelling correspondences for consonant digraphs and vowel teams

Standards Covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.B — Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.A — Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.3.B — Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.

In Hangry Goblins, students practice letter-sound combinations by feeding individual letter sounds, consonant digraphs, blends, and vowel teams to goblins that become more and more “hangry” until they are given the letters that match their demands.

Skills
Phonics – Letter Sound Correspondence

  • Sound-spelling correspondences for individual letters and letter combinations

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.A — Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.B — Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.A — Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.3.B — Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.

In Picky Goblins, students practice sound-spelling correspondences for individual letters by listening to a sound from a goblin and feeding it the piece of toast with the corresponding.

Skills
Phonics – Letter-Sound Correspondence

  • Sound-Spelling Correspondences for single letters

Standards Covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.A — Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.B — Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.

In Read All About It, students practice reading sentences with words that include the sound-spelling correspondences, word features (e.g., prefixes/suffixes), and phonics rules (e.g., vowel consonant long e, syllable patterns) they learned and practiced in other games.

Skills
Phonics – Early Decoding; Advanced Decoding

  • Read grade level text accurately

Standards Covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3 — Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.4 — Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3 — Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.3 — Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

In Rhyme Time, students practice with different rime families (words that end with the same sounds and rhyme) and decode words in these families by swapping the first letter sounds of words while the ending sounds remain constant.

Skills
Phonics – Early Decoding

  • Decode words with common rime families

Standards Covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.A — Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.B — Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.D — Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.E — Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.B — Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.

In Tongue Twist, students practice with different rime families (words that end with the same sounds and rhyme) and build words by changing the ending sound (rime) while the beginning (onset) sounds, consonant blends, and consonant digraphs remain constant.

Skills
Phonics – Early Decoding

  • Decode words with common rime families

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.A — Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.B — Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.D — Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.E — Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.B — Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.

In Word City, students identify and manipulate beginning, middle, and ending letter sounds to assemble word chains that form buildings.

Skills
Phonics – Early Decoding

  • Letter-sound correspondence
  • Decoding and spelling regular words

Standards Covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACYRF.K.3.A — Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACYRF.1.3.A — Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACYRF.1.3.B — Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACYRF.1.3.C — Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACYRF.2.3.B — Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.

Microcomprehension Games in Amplify Reading: K–2

In Because This, That, students learn how common text structures give clues to meaning by rearranging sentences to identify cause and effect or problem and solution.

Skills
Microcomprehension

  • Text Structure: Organize sentences using sequence/chronological order

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.3 — Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.8 — Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.3 — Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.8 — Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.

In Connect It!, students practice using different types of conjunctions (temporal and causal, for example) to combine two clauses into a coherent sentence.

Skills
Microcomprehension

  • Syntactic awareness – connectives

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.3 — Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

In Message in a Bottle, students build their awareness of syntax and the impact word order has on meaning by unscrambling scraps of lost messages to reconstruct sentences.

Skills
Microcomprehension

  • Syntactic awareness

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.1 — Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.1 — Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

In Mind the Gap, comprehension levels are assessed through a modified cloze exercise in which students make selections to fill in the blanks of a text where approximately every seventh word has been omitted.

Skills
Microcomprehension

  • Reading fluency
  • Syntactic awareness
  • Inference
  • Comprehension monitoring

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1 — Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.10 — Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.

In Show Off, students learn how common text structures give clues to meaning, using cues from illustrations to rearrange sentences in the correct sequential or chronological order.
Skills
Microcomprehension

  • Text structure: Organize sentences using problem/solution and cause/effect

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.3 — Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.8 — Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.3 — Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.8 — Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.

In Sloppy Scrolls, students practice the art of comprehension monitoring, or ensuring that they continually build and check a mental model of what they read. In the game, students are introduced to a world of enchanted scrolls that have lost their magic: they contain inconsistencies, and no longer make sense. The students must attempt to identify the inconsistencies by tapping the sentences that don’t match the rest of the passage. To increase the challenge of the game, some of the passages are presented without errors.

Skills
Microcomprehension

  • Comprehension Monitoring

Standards Covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.10 — By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

In Storyboard, students practice making inferences by completing a storyboard that integrates relevant background knowledge missing from a given sentence.

Skills
Microcomprehension

  • Inference

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

In Super Match, students work on developing cognitive flexibility, or the ability to track multiple elements simultaneously, by completing interactive puzzles that associate pictures and words across multiple dimensions (e.g., color and category, or starting sounds and category).

Skills
Microcomprehension

  • Cognitive flexibility

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.5.A — Sort words into categories (e.g., colors, clothing) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.5.B — Define words by category and by one or more key attributes (e.g., a duck is a bird that swims; a tiger is a large cat with stripes).
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3 — Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

In Unmask That, students build their understanding of anaphora, a tool authors use to avoid repetition, by linking pronouns to their antecedents in text.

Skills
Microcomprehension

  • Syntactic awareness – anaphora

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.1 — Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.1 — Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Comprehension Games in Amplify Reading: K–2

In Best Buddy, students examine character traits to determine which school club provides the best fit for their fictional friends.

Skills
Comprehension – Key Ideas and Details

  • Character Traits

Standards Covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

In Book Club, students compare and contrast two books on the same topic or theme to determine which book best meets the needs of a character in the game.

Skills
Comprehension – Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

  • Compare and Contrast Texts

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.9 — Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.Rl.2.9 — Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.9 — Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.

In Debate-a-Ball, students practice identifying the best evidence to support a claim. Students pick an animal avatar to compete with an automated opponent in debates on familiar topics. To win, students must put forward the best evidence to support each claim more frequently than their opponents. They are taught to identify evidence that is factual and strongly related to the claim.

Skills
Comprehension – Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

  • Evaluate evidence

Standards covered

  • CSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.8 — Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.

In Picture This, students complete the illustrations for a story by identifying words that describe its setting, characters, problems, and solutions.

Skills
Comprehension – Key Ideas and Details

  • Story Elements/Plot

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

In Storybox, students choose settings, situations, and solutions to send characters on different adventures, using details and context to help them resolve problems and complete the story.

Skills
Comprehension – Key Ideas and Details

  • Story Elements/Plot

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

In Tube Tales, students learn the attributes of different genres and practice identifying them in brief texts.

Skills
Comprehension – Craft and Structure

  • Text schema

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.10 — By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.5 — Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.10 — By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

In What’s the Big Idea, students examine pictures, picture sequences, and short passages to practice differentiating the main idea from story details.

Skills
Comprehension – Key Ideas and Details

  • Main idea

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.2 — With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.2 — Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.

Vocabulary Games in Amplify Reading: K–2

In Punchline!, students learn how words can have multiple meanings by channeling their inner comedian to crack homonym-based jokes.

Skills
Vocabulary

  • Multiple-meaning words

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.4.A — Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

In Shades of Meaning, students differentiate the nuances in similar words — first by ordering them from weakest to strongest, largest to smallest, or least to greatest; then by putting them into sentences that further clarify their meaning.

Skills
Vocabulary

  • Shades of meaning

Standards covered

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.5.D — Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in manner (e.g., look, peek, glance, stare, glare, scowl) and adjectives differing in intensity (e.g., large, gigantic) by defining or choosing them or by acting out the meanings.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.5.B — Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs (e.g., toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (e.g., thin, slender, skinny, scrawny).

Amplify Reading: K–2’s Integrated eReader

eReader Overview

Amplify Reading: K–2 has a new library of over 25 fiction and non-fiction ebooks and an adaptive algorithm that unlocks each book at the exact right point in a reader’s development. Moreover, they contain familiar interactions from the games so that students move seamlessly from text-embedded-in-games to games-embedded-in-text, maximizing their sense of growing competency.

The eReader also provides optional supports for its readers. From the settings icon on the title page of each book, students can turn on sentence numbering, read aloud functionality, and reveal words, as well as adjust the text size.

Student Experience
When students are ready for a text, it will appear as one of their quest steps.

When readers first unlock a new book, they read through it without interruption (with read-aloud support if appropriate).

In the second read, students discover embedded activities that repeat the familiar iconography of a game they previously mastered.

At the end of the book, additional activities evaluate students’ comprehension.

Achievements in books are part of the same overall reward system: helping your Curioso grow, just like achievement in skill-building games. Mastery of the content is reflected in the teacher dashboard within the given skill.

How teachers are using Amplify Reading

Independent study/rotation stations
Amplify Reading is a personalized, differentiated program designed to keep students engaged and on task in independent study. The program is most effective when used for a minimum of 45 minutes per week.

Other common uses
We designed the program to be flexible enough to fit any classroom model. Amplify Reading is browser-based, so it works on Chromebooks, iPads, laptops, desktops, and even iPhones. It can also be used at home to extend learning beyond the classroom.

Our research and case studies

Our programs benefit millions of students every day using methods that are evidence-based, ESSA-aligned, and showing efficacy in a variety of contexts. All Amplify programs meet the criteria for ESSA Tiers I–IV, demonstrating statistically significant and positive results for learners. All Amplify programs are eligible for ESSER funding.

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Crack the code with literacy skills instruction that works.

The Amplify CKLA Skills program helps establish strong reading foundations in your K–2 classrooms. Students practice reading and communicating every day. Their literacy skills grow alongside their confidence.

Amplify CKLA Skills is grounded in Science of Reading research and was the first foundational skills program to earn all-green scores on EdReports. Read the review.

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Perfect for any literacy block.

Use the powerful foundational literacy skills in Amplify CKLA Skills to supplement your core English Language Arts (ELA) program with focused lessons that fit any literacy block.

Interested in the full curriculum, including knowledge building? Explore the comprehensive Amplify CKLA program.

“Amplify CKLA Skills helped us have systematic phonics so that we could make sure we were doing the direct teaching that our students needed. We’re seeing that, over time, we don’t have to fill in those gaps because they’re not actually created in the first place.”

Heidi

Academic Director, Exceed Charter School

Our approach

Starting with sounds, students practice their phonemic awareness, handwriting skills, vocabulary, spelling, and grammar. They become aware of the connection between reading and writing, building confidence along the way.

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Explicit, systematic instruction that works for students and teachers

Amplify CKLA Skills’ research-based scope and sequence progresses from simple to more complex skill development, starting with phonological and phonemic awareness. Instruction guides you in explicitly teaching the 150 spellings for the 44 sounds of English, with an intentional progression and review of skills to set your students up for success.

Daily 60-minute lessons cover all skills standards.

Instruction includes print and phonological awareness, sound-letter patterns, decoding and encoding, writing mechanics, and writing structure and processes. Ready-made presentation slides help you effectively deliver each lesson.

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Decodable readers help students crack the code.

Amplify CKLA readers are 100 percent decodable, which means they include only words with letter-sound correspondences that have been explicitly taught. The readers are colorful fiction and nonfiction chapter books that kids love! In Grades K–1, visual supports such as underlined and bolded text scaffold students, while Big Book versions may be used for teacher modeling. Readers are also available as audio-enhanced e-books.

Learn more about the decodable readers here.

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What’s included

Amplify CKLA Skills includes engaging print and digital materials for comprehensive and effective learning.

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High-quality teacher materials

Amplify CKLA Skills teachers effectively deliver instruction with print and digital resources, including:

  • Teacher Guides with embedded differentiation.
  • Formal and informal assessments.
  • Ready-made and customizable lesson slides.
  • Teacher resources and on-demand professional development.

Immersive student resources

Amplify CKLA Skills students stay engaged with a variety of print and digital resources, including:

  • Original decodables and read-aloud Big Books.
  • Student Activity Books with embedded assessments.
  • A digital Sound Library with recordings, animated videos, and fun karaoke-style songs.
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Hands-on phonics materials

Multisensory phonics and foundational skills resources help students practice key skills using fun, varied approaches that build independence.

  • Chaining Folder (K)
  • Letter Cards (K–1)
  • Spelling Cards (2)
  • Syllable Cards (K–2)
  • Image Cards (K–3)
  • Blending Picture Cards (K)
  • Consonant and Vowel Code Flip Books (1–2)
  • Exclusive digital Sound Library

Robust digital experience

Amplify CKLA Skills teacher and student resources are available through a digital experience platform that enhances instruction and saves you time. With everything you need in one place, you can effectively plan lessons, present content, and review student work.

  • Ready-made yet customizable lesson presentation slide decks
  • Dynamic live-review student tool
  • Interactive and student-friendly experience
  • LMS integration
  • Recorded Read-Alouds
  • Professional development website
  • Real-time program support via email, live chat, and phone

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