New Mexico ELA review Amplify ELA (6–8)
Thank you for taking the time to review Amplify ELA for New Mexico. Below you’ll find access to our print and digital materials as well as other resources to support your review and allow you to experience our program.

Program overview presentation
Amplify ELA is a blended English language arts curriculum designed specifically for grades 6–8. With Amplify ELA, students learn to tackle complex text, make observations, grapple with interesting ideas, and find reading relevance for themselves.
Online platform videos
The content and instruction in Amplify ELA’s digital program mirrors the content provided in the print Teacher Guides and Student Editions. Additionally, the digital program offers enhanced opportunities to engage students through the use of multimedia and a variety of learning apps. Teachers will also find embedded apps that make it easy to score student work, provide feedback, differentiate instruction, and report on progress.
Step 1: Download this teacher navigation guide and watch this video walkthrough to support your digital review.
Key program features
Amplify ELA’s structured yet flexible lessons are grounded in regular routines while still allowing for a variety of learning experiences and continuous student engagement.
Take a closer look at the program’s structure and the sequence of activity types that appear in a typical lesson.
Amplify ELA features high-quality lessons grounded in great books, with powerful multimedia tools to immerse young adolescents in reading, writing, and speaking.
Our rich and relevant texts are more than just excerpts. With more than 700 full titles in our digital library plus a variety of Novel Guides, Amplify ELA engages and inspires middle schoolers with great works, including poetry, rhetoric, and Spanish selections.
Amplify ELA’s new, hybrid curriculum can be used in classrooms with limited access to devices. Our engaging print highlights the many digital experiences that can be shared with students through classroom projections. Teachers can make choices about when their students use devices without compromising learning and while providing 100% standards coverage.
Download the Remote and Hybrid Learning Guide to learn how we support in-person, remote, and hybrid instruction.
Based on individual student needs and performance measures within Amplify ELA reports, teachers are able to select the differentiation level that’s best for each student. When students reach an activity, the platform delivers the assigned differentiation, allowing all students to experience the same lesson with supports tailored to their unique needs.
What’s more, when logging in each morning, teachers will be greeted by their Amplify ELA Homescreen where they can view a snapshot of student performance, access reports, see which students are struggling, and easily return to where they left off the day before.
- Our close reading apps bring texts to life for students. Students zoom in on specific moments of the text and map out character traits, trace emotions throughout a text, and gather evidence to build a case. These apps are also flexible so teachers can create their own activities for Amplify ELA core texts, texts in the library, and texts they bring in from other sources.
- The Vocab App strengthens vocabulary skills with fun and fully differentiated adaptive games, repeated encounters with new words across multiple contexts, and an interactive stats page that helps students track their own progress.
- Quests are fun, week-long explorations that help students practice analytical reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills while building a strong classroom community. In each Quest, students step into the world of the text they have been reading. They interact with different complex texts in multiple formats and media, gather evidence from these texts and interactions with classmates, and work together to achieve the Quest goal.
With Amplify ELA, your students will benefit from embedded assessments that maximize instructional time and allow them to keep learning without the disruption of step-away performance tests.
And as students complete activities within lessons and units, Amplify ELA teacher and admin reports provide a continuously updated picture of how each student is progressing with key skills and standards. Data is gathered from daily learning moments, allowing you to keep teaching while building a clear understanding of student performance.
Providing feedback has never been easier. With Classwork, teachers can review student writing and multiple choice answers and easily add scores and comments (and even emoji!) all in one place, giving students the immediate feedback they need to further develop their confidence and literacy skills.
Additional materials to support your review
- Correlations to NM Standards
- [Video] A deeper dive into Amplify ELA
- ELA_ProgramGuide_
- ELD Program Guide
- Grade overviews
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Differentiation for every student
- Assessment, data, and standards
- Formative and summative assessment
- Administrator reports
- Remote and hybrid learning
- Research base
- EQuIP Rubric