Explore Amplify CKLA and Amplify Caminos
Thank you for reviewing the top-rated Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) and its new Spanish-language partner Amplify Caminos.
Built on the Science of Reading, Amplify CKLA and Amplify Caminos sequence deep content knowledge with research-based foundational skills to help New York City students become strong readers, writers, speakers, and thinkers. As part of our commitment to creating richer curricula that is more diverse and culturally responsive, we’ve built on the foundation of our 1st Edition to create a new Amplify CKLA, complete with program enhancements that better help you reach every student.
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Built on the Science of Reading
Through a unique, evidence-based two-strand approach, Amplify CKLA helps students master foundational skills and build a robust knowledge base–both of which are necessary for accessing and comprehending complex texts.
Grades K–2: Dedicated knowledge building and explicit skills instruction
Every day, students in Grades K–2 complete one full lesson that builds foundational reading skills in the Amplify CKLA Skills Strand, as well as one full lesson that builds background knowledge in the Amplify CKLA Knowledge Strand. Through learning in each of these strands, students develop the early literacy skills necessary to help them become confident readers and build the context to understand what they’re reading.
Grades 3–5: Integrated instruction
In Grades 3–5, Knowledge and Skills are integrated in one set of instructional materials. Lessons begin to combine skills and knowledge with increasingly complex texts, close reading, and a greater writing emphasis. Students can then use their skills to go on their own independent reading adventures.
Illustrated for engagement
All of the Amplify CKLA K–2 Skills Readers have been redesigned and reillustrated to increase student engagement and students’ sense of connection with the decodable stories and their characters. Stories with human characters now have improved inclusivity and authenticity and feature individuals with a broad range of identity factors, including socioeconomic status, age, ability, race, ethnicity, country of origin, religion, and more. Other stories feature fantastical creatures to bring excitement and whimsy to the tales.
These new readers better reflect New York City classrooms and give students intensive practice with 100% decodable text.
Inspire inquiry and spark curiosity
New Knowledge Research Units in each grade of Amplify CKLA and Amplify Caminos provide a collection of high-interest authentic trade books that will spark your students’ curiosity and inspire more inquiry. The rich topics and highly visual components featured in these units provide students with new perspectives and additional windows and mirrors as they work to build knowledge.
In these units students will soar to new heights with Dr. Ellen Ochoa, Amelia Earhart, and the Tuskegee Airmen. They’ll feel the rhythm as they learn about Jazz legends Miles Davis, Tito Puente, and Billie Holiday. And they’ll explore the far reaches of the world with Jacques Cousteau, Matthew Henson, and Eugenie Clark.
Parallel Spanish literacy instruction
Like Amplify CKLA, Amplify Caminos provides a two-strand approach to instruction via authentic Spanish foundational skills instruction sequenced with the same knowledge-building content found in Amplify CKLA. Every day in Grades K–2, students complete one full lesson that builds foundational reading skills in the Amplify Caminos Lectoescritura strand, as well as one full lesson that builds background knowledge in the Amplify Caminos Conocimiento strand.
When used with Amplify CKLA, Amplify Caminos provides parity across English and Spanish that’s suitable for any Spanish and English biliteracy implementation model.
New York City review materials
The Amplify CKLA Program Guide and the Amplify Caminos Program Guide provide you with more details on how these programs work, how they’re structured, and why they’re uniquely capable of helping you bring English and Spanish reading instruction built on the Science of Reading to your classroom.
NYC DOE requested review information:
- Amplify CKLA Scope and Sequence documents
- Amplify Caminos Scope and Sequence documents
- Amplify CKLA is recognized by Knowledge Matters Campaign and has received high ratings from EdReports.
- Alignment to New York State Next Generation ELA Learning Standards
- Alignment to Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework
- New York City DOE Implementation and Professional Development Proposal
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