Welcome LAUSD CKLA teachers!
On this site, you’ll find teacher tips, videos, and classroom photos to guide your implementation of Amplify’s CKLA® curriculum.
Want to submit your own tip? Share your ideas in the LAUSD Schoology group.
Classroom Materials
Thank you for choosing to pilot our elementary core ELA solutions. To support you in preparing for and familiarizing yourself with your grade-level resources for CKLA and Caminos, please review the Classroom Material Handbook. This handbook will provide additional information about your programs, implementation training, and classroom materials.
This handbook is not intended to be printed in its entirety; select and print applicable grade-level pages including inventory lists.
Teacher tips
More teacher tips
You may be looking for tools to help make instruction in CKLA even easier. Here’s a guide on where to find the top tools for CKLA instruction, followed by some logistics about the new materials you’ll be receiving.
The 4.5-minute video below provides a walk-thru of the main resources found online for every unit, including tips on finding and using them. Want to find just a particular piece? I’ve time-stamped it for you! Feel free to skip ahead.
- What’s on the CKLA Hub
- What’s on the Teacher Resource Site
- ELD supports
- Caminos materials
- Assessments
- Supports for struggling students
A strong literacy program is about more than just a reading program or an assessment tool—it brings together curriculum, instruction, regular practice, differentiation, and assessments that measure where students are, where they need to go, and what is needed to promote ongoing success. CKLA, Amplify Reading, and mCLASS® work together to build strong readers.
Instead of pulling resources from different places and wondering what students need, you can use CKLA, Amplify Reading, and mCLASS to support students in all different types of settings. The chart below shares more about the connections between DIBELS® 8 measures, CKLA instruction, and activities in Amplify Reading.
| D8 measure | Amplify CKLA instructional activity | Amplify reading activity |
|---|---|---|
| Phonemic Segmentation Fluency (PSF) | Phonological Awareness/Phonemic Awareness | Zoom Boom, Gem & Nye, Wordbots, Cut It Out, All Aboard!, eReader |
| Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) | Phonics: Basic Code, Letter-Sound Correspondence, Chaining, Decoding | Picky Goblins, Grumpy Goblins, Hangry Goblins, Word City, Curioso Crossing, Word Slide, Sort It Out, Rhyme Time, Tongue Twist, Food Truck, Read All About It, eReader |
| Word Reading Fluency (WRF) | Phonics: Advanced Code, Tricky Words, Reading, Wiggle Cards, Chaining, Decoding | Word City, Curioso Crossing, Word Slide, Sort It Out, Rhyme Time, Tongue Twist, Food Truck, Read All About It, eReader |
| Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) | Reading, Fluency Assessments, Fluency Packets | Curioso Crossing, Story Lab |
| Maze | Reading Comprehension Activities | Comprehension Processes: Because This, That, CodeX, Connect It!, Director’s Cut, Message in a Bottle, Show Off, Sloppy Scrolls, Storyboard, Super Match, Unmask That, Reader Comprehension: Best Buddy, Book Club, City Planner, Curious Cases, Debate-a-Ball, Field Observer, Newsflash, Picture This, Poet’s Path, Storybox, Tube Tales, What’s the Big Idea, Wild Planet, Yearbook, eReader Maze Assessment: Mind the Gap |
We can even take this a step further and use CKLA Connect within the mCLASS platform! CKLA Connect matches small groups with targeted Amplify CKLA lessons based on their mCLASS assessment data, helping you get the data you need with powerful reporting and instant recommendations of which Amplify CKLA activities can be used to reteach or remediate specific skills.
Check out the below video to learn more about the CKLA Connect feature and how to access it.
We partnered with some of the most prominent cognitive scientists and leading experts in education to bring you a content-rich, systematic, and engaging curriculum that ensures all LAUSD students have a chance to make significant leaps in their literacy journey.
This guide will help your campus personnel and classroom teachers receive and organize the materials included in your shipment.
Want to see some example lessons? Here are two videos that show a primary and upper elementary example. There are many more examples that teachers have posted from Amplify partner districts. Check us out in the Schoology group for more ideas.
CKLA’s unique knowledge-centered approach allows students to explore great civilizations, meet remarkable people, and examine world-changing events and ideas—all while developing as proficient readers, writers and conversationalists. CKLA introduces students to characters with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, ages, races, religions, and more.
Daily read-alouds and authentic texts give students the chance to dive deeper into the knowledge needed for strong comprehension. Want to know more about why read-alouds are so important? Check out this article from the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
ReadWorks articles support the Amplify CKLA Knowledge Sequence in deepening students’ content knowledge and helping them to develop rich vocabulary. Experiencing the world through different lenses allows students to connect ideas across topics. These articles enhance comprehension and expand student knowledge. There are ReadWorks articles for every domain and unit.
To see which ReadWorks articles align with your Amplify CKLA pilot unit, refer to the About ReadWorks page on the CKLA Hub, or watch this quick video for more.
Share your ideas
Submit a tip
Have ideas you’d like to share with others? We can’t wait to hear them!
Share your ideas in the LAUSD Schoology group for an opportunity to be featured on the LAUSD CKLA teacher tip page.
Submit a photo
Captured pictures to support your tip(s)? We can’t wait to see them!
Submit a photo* by in the LAUSD Schoology group.
Within your post, please include:
- A header (quick title)
- A description of what’s happening in the photo and any additional support to use the tools shown.
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Pictures! LAUSD classrooms
Animal classifications
Check out @MrsSidneyEdu’s classroom completing animal habitat dioramas!
Decoding games
Students in @MrsSichko’s class have fun practicing decoding while playing games.
Poetry on display
Beautiful poetry created by students in @m_medina’s class for Red Ribbon week!
Building empathy and perspectives
Students in @IndianaAreaSD create projects anchored in text that’s fun and engaging in many ways!
Analyzing poetry
Watch student growth happen as students learn about poetry and begin to create their own at @WilsonES_IASD.
Building skills in upper grades
Building skills in CKLA goes beyond Grade 4! See how students learn about affixes at @CarollES_AISD.
Velcro sound spelling cards
This Grade 2 teacher is attaching velcro sound spelling cards to the Consonants Code Flip Book (CCFB).
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