Welcome, Minnesota educators!

Thank you for taking the time to review Amplify’s CKLA resources for K–5.

Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts^® (CKLA) is an effective core literacy resource for students in grades K–5. CKLA was developed in partnership with the Core Knowledge Foundation and was specifically designed to help teachers implement proven evidence-based instructional practices. CKLA is all green on EdReports- read the full review on EdReports.org.

Click here for correlations to the Minnesota Learning Standards.

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Amplify CKLA for Grades K–2

Amplify CKLA for Grades 3–5

About CKLA

Amplify CKLA is a core ELA program for grades K–5 that delivers:

A combination of explicit foundational skills with meaningful knowledge-building.
Embedded support and differentiation that get all students reading grade-level texts together.
Opportunities for students to see the strengths and experiences that all people share while celebrating each others’ unique identities and experiences.
Authentic Spanish language arts instruction with Amplify Caminos.

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Program effectiveness

How it Works

Amplify CKLA teaches both foundational skills and background knowledge in grades K–2 and combines them in 3–5.

In grades K–2, students complete one full lesson that builds foundational reading skills and one full lesson that builds background knowledge.
In grades 3–5, students complete one integrated lesson combining skills and knowledge with increasingly complex texts, close reading, and a greater emphasis on writing.

CKLA Program Guide

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Caminos Program Guide

Assessments

What students Explore

Amplify CKLA builds knowledge coherently across subjects and grades.

Students make connections from year to year by exploring grade-appropriate subject-area knowledge and vocabulary in history, science, literature, and the arts while learning to read, write, and think creatively and for themselves.

Download the at-a-glance resources below to learn more.

What students read

Amplify CKLA puts a variety of texts in the hands of students every day to build and strengthen background knowledge and vocabulary, listening and reading comprehension, and decoding and fluency skills.

A comprehensive approach to literacy instruction requires students to have a wide range of text experiences, including reading, listening, discussing, and writing. Check out our text complexity guide to learn more by clicking here. Most questions, tasks, and assignments in CKLA materials are text-dependent. See how we use questioning and analysis skills to help students understand text in CKLA here.

More than that, we ensure the texts students read represent the world around them. With a diverse range of authors, topics, and characters, all students have ample access to both windows and mirrors. Our texts include the following:

Authentic books
Authentic text passages
Student Readers
Novel Guides (grades 3–5)

Download a list of K-5 student texts.

Supports LETRS

Amplify CKLA aligns with the instructional principles recommended by LETRS.

Structured: Concepts are taught through consistent routines.
Sequential: Concepts are taught in a logical, well-planned sequence.
Systematic: Phonemes are taught from simplest to most complex.
Explicit: Decoding and encoding concepts are taught directly and explicitly.
Multi-sensory: Instruction is delivered through visual, auditory, and kinesthetic-tactile pathways.
Cumulative: Concepts are applied in decodable, connected texts with constant review and reinforcement.

CKLA Skills sequence for K–2

CKLA Skills sequence for 3–5

Amplify CKLA and LTRS Crosswalk

A comprehensive and cohesive solution

A strong literacy program is more than a reading program or an assessment tool: it combines curriculum, instruction, regular practice, intervention, and assessments.

Amplify has brought these components together in our early literacy curriculum suite to ensure you have what you need for multi-tiered support.

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CKLA and mCLASS®

CKLA aligns with our mCLASS^® with DIBELS 8th Edition, Amplify’s comprehensive diagnostic universal screener. Approved by the MN DOE, mCLASS^® with DIBELS^® 8th Edition is a dyslexia screener, diagnostic, and formative assessment all in one.

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CKLA and Boost Reading

Boost Reading provides literacy acceleration and remediation for your students.

Trial Access

Ready to explore on your own? Follow the instructions below to access your demo account.

Explore CKLA’s digital site:

Go to my.amplify.com
Select Log in with Amplify
Teacher login: t1.mde-mn@demo.tryamplify.net
Password: Amplify1-mde-mn
Select the CKLA icon and your desired grade level