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Amplify CKLA 3rd Edition Pilot Packs

Beginning-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.

Beginning-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.

    Two computer screens display educational assessment interfaces, with reports and questions on charting world geography and sentence usage.
    Three book covers: "Stories" with animals, "Poetry" with butterflies, and "Knights" with a knight on horseback, linked by colorful lines and shapes.

    Beginning-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.

    Amplify CKLA Kindergarten Skills 1 Teacher Guide cover with a large number 1, a cat, insects, a hat, a table, and speech sound symbols on a pink background.
    Skills Unit 1 Teacher Guide
    Book cover titled "Skills 2 Teacher Guide" with a large white number 2. Includes illustrations of a cat, insects, a hat, and phonetic symbols. Red background with "Amplify CKLA" label.
    Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide
    Cover of "Skills 3" Teacher Guide by Amplify CKLA for Kindergarten featuring large number 3, phonetic symbols, a cat, insects, and a bowl on a pink background.
    Skills Unit 3 Teacher Guide
    Cover of "Skills 4" teacher guide with a large number 4, cat, insects, and speech sound symbols on a pink background. Top left shows "Amplify CKLA" and "Grade K.
    Skills Unit 4 Teacher Guide
    Cover of "Amplify CKLA Skills 5 Teacher Guide." Features a large number 5, a cat, a hat, a stand, insects, and speech balloons with phonetic symbols on a pink background.
    Skills Unit 5 Teacher Guide
    Illustration of three characters standing by a white fence. A man and two dressed animals observe chickens and chicks in the foreground, with a barn and tree in the background.
    Skills Unit 4 Big Book
    Illustrated book cover titled "Ox and Man" shows an ox and three children running through a colorful landscape with hills and trees under a blue sky with clouds.
    Skills Unit 5 Big Book
    Red educational card cover with "Small Letter Cards" for Grade K. Features illustrations of a cat, insects, table with an apple, and a hat. Speech bubbles showing phonetic sounds.
    Small Letter Card Set
    Red cover with illustrations of a cat, insects, fruit bowl, and hat. Label reads "Skills Large Letter Cards" for Grade K. Various phonetic symbols and patterns are scattered around.
    Large Letter Card Set
    Red educational poster with phonetic symbols. Includes illustrations of a cat, a table with an apple, and insects. Labeled "Amplify CKLA" and "Grade K" with "Skills Sound Posters" at the bottom.
    Sound Posters Sample
    Cover of Amplify CKLA Grade K Skills Sound Cards with a bowl, cat, hat, and insects on a pink background. ISBN and barcode displayed.
    Sound Cards Sample
    Cover of a book titled "Assessment Guide: Check-Point Assessments" with images of a cat, dragonfly, bugs, and a hat on a red background.
    Skills Assessment Guide (Black Line Master)
    Book cover for "Star Light, Star Bright: Nursery Rhymes and Fables, Teacher Guide." Features illustrations of animals, a house, and a garden. Amplify CKLA logo is visible.
    Knowledge 1 Teacher Guide
    Children and adults engaging in various outdoor activities, such as playing instruments and picnicking, in a park; cover of "See, Hear, Smell, Taste, Touch: The Five Senses" teacher guide.
    Knowledge 2 Teacher Guide
    Children's book cover depicting a boy playing a violin outdoors with animals and trees, titled "Underdogs and Heroes: Stories.
    Knowledge 3 Teacher Guide
    Book cover depicting a child sitting in a garden with trees and plants, picking flowers. The title reads "See How They Grow: Plants.
    Knowledge 4 Teacher Guide
    A whimsical book cover featuring a countryside cottage with a red door and vibrant garden. Illustrations of Mother Goose, a tortoise, a hare, and clouds are scattered around. Title: "Nursery Rhymes and Fables.
    Knowledge 1 Image Cards
    A diverse group of people enjoying a park, with children playing, a person playing guitar, others cooking on a barbecue, and a person petting a dog. A small ice cream stand is nearby.
    Knowledge 2 Image Cards
    Illustration of a child playing a violin in a forest clearing, surrounded by animals including chickens, a sheep, and a bear. A large pink boot-shaped house is in the background.
    Knowledge 3 Image Cards
    Children's book cover: a child in a hat tends a garden with trees, flowers, and a squirrel. Text reads "See How They Grow: Plants" for Grade K.
    Knowledge 4 Image Cards
    A screenshot of a cell phone.
    Skills 1–5 Activity Book Sample
    Red educational cover with illustrations of a cat, insects, a hat, and phonetic symbols. Text reads: "Amplify CKLA Skills Chaining Folder Sample For Review Purposes Only.

    Student materials

    Chaining Folder
    Red book cover titled "Skills Picture Reader." Features illustrations of a cat, table, insects, dragonfly, and a hat with speech bubbles containing vowels. Designed for kindergarten.
    Picture Reader Sample
    Cover of Amplify CKLA Activity Book for Kindergarten, featuring a red design, a globe, sunflowers, and a list of topics including the five senses and geography.
    Knowledge 1–4 Activity Book Sample
    Cover of "Skills 1" teacher guide from Amplify CKLA. Features a large number one, knight, frog, coins, and phonetic symbols on a yellow background.

    Teacher materials

    Skills Unit 1 Teacher Guide
    Yellow book cover titled "Skills 2: Teacher Guide" from Amplify CKLA. Features a large number "2," a frog, a knight, coins, phonetic symbols, and a moon.

    Teacher materials

    Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide
    Yellow book cover titled "Skills 3 Teacher Guide" with illustrations of coins, a knight, a grasshopper, and phonetic symbols. Amplify CKLA logo at top.

    Teacher materials

    Skills Unit 3 Teacher Guide
    Illustration of two children posing with a bagpiper dressed in traditional Scottish attire; text below reads "Snap Shots.

    Teacher materials

    Skills Unit 1 Big Book
    Illustration of a family hugging under a tree, with a house in the background. The word "Gran" is at the top of the image.

    Teacher materials

    Skills Unit 2 Big Book
    Illustrated book cover titled "Fables" shows a fox sitting on a stump, reading aloud to a rabbit and a bird, surrounded by mushrooms and grass under tall trees.

    Teacher materials

    Skills Unit 3 Big Book
    Screenshot of a language learning webpage focusing on English consonants, including sounds such as /g/, /ch/, /j/, /v/, /s/, and /f/, displayed with example words and visual cues.

    Teacher materials

    Code Poster Set
    Cover of "Skills Spelling Cards" by Amplify CKLA, featuring a knight, frog, moon, and sound symbols on a yellow background.

    Teacher materials

    Spelling Card Set
    Orange card with "Amplify CKLA Grade 1" and "Skills Large Letter Cards." Features a moon, knight, frog, coins, and phonetic symbols.

    Teacher materials

    Large Letter Card Set
    Yellow book cover titled "Assessment Guide: Check-Point Assessments" with images of a knight, coins, a frog, and a planet. Text includes "Amplify CKLA" and "Skills.

    Teacher materials

    Skills Assessment Guide (Black Line Master)
    Book cover with a spider web in the foreground. A red house, animals, and trees are in the background. Title reads "The Moral of the Story: Fables and Tales.

    Teacher materials

    Knowledge 1 Teacher Guide
    Book cover titled "From Nose to Toes: How Your Body Works" featuring X-ray images of body parts.

    Teacher materials

    Knowledge 2 Teacher Guide
    Cover of "Common Threads: Different Lands, Similar Stories" by Amplify CKLA. Features illustrations of children sitting on a red mushroom and standing near a large flower.

    Teacher materials

    Knowledge 3 Teacher Guide
    Book cover titled "Reach for the Stars: Astronomy" featuring an astronaut, a spaceship, Earth, and Saturn in space. Part of the Amplify CKLA series, Grade 4, Unit 1, Teacher Guide.

    Teacher materials

    Knowledge 4 Teacher Guide
    Illustration of a rural scene with a red house, cow, cat, woman, muddy path, and a spider on a web. The text reads: "The Moral of the Story: Fables and Tales, Grade 1.

    Teacher materials

    Knowledge 1 Image Cards
    Educational book cover titled "From Nose to Toes: How Your Body Works" featuring X-ray images and illustrations of human anatomy.

    Teacher materials

    Knowledge 2 Image Cards
    Children exploring a whimsical forest scene with oversized mushrooms and a snail shell. Text on the cover reads "Common Threads: Different Lands, Similar Stories, Grade 1, Image Cards.

    Teacher materials

    Knowledge 3 Image Cards
    Illustrated cover of a Grade 1 astronomy book titled "Reach for the Stars," featuring a space scene with an astronaut, Earth, Saturn, and shooting stars.

    Teacher materials

    Knowledge 4 Image Cards
    Cover of "Activity Book: Volume 1" featuring coins, a knight, and a grasshopper on a yellow background with phonetic symbols and a globe.

    Student materials

    Skills 1–3 Activity Book
    Illustration of two children posing with a bagpiper. The background is filled with doodles, and "Snap Shots" is written at the bottom of the image.

    Student materials

    Skills Unit 1 Reader
    Illustration of a family hugging under a tree, with a house in the background. The word "Gran" is at the top of the image.

    Student materials

    Skills Unit 2 Reader
    Illustrated book cover titled "Fables" shows a fox sitting on a stump, reading aloud to a rabbit and a bird, surrounded by mushrooms and grass under tall trees.

    Student materials

    Skills Unit 3 Reader
    Yellow cover of an activity book titled "Amplify CKLA Grade 1" featuring images of a map, a child with a hat, a shuttle, and a forest path. "Knowledge" sections listed on the cover.

    Student materials

    Knowledge 1-4 Activity Book Sample

    Teacher materials

    Skills Unit 1 Teacher Guide

    Teacher materials

    Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide

    Teacher materials

    Skills Unit 3 Teacher Guide

    Teacher materials

    Code Posters

    Teacher materials

    Spelling Card Set

    Teacher materials

    Skills Assessment Guide (Black Line Master)

    Teacher materials

    Knowledge 1 Teacher Guide

    Teacher materials

    Knowledge 2 Teacher Guide

    Teacher materials

    Knowledge 3 Teacher Guide

    Teacher materials

    Knowledge 4 Teacher Guide

    Teacher materials

    Knowledge 2 Image Cards

    Teacher materials

    Knowledge 3 Image Cards

    Teacher materials

    Knowledge 4 Image Cards

    Student materials

    Skills 1–3 Activity Book Sample

    Student materials

    Skills Unit 1 Reader

    Student materials

    Skills Unit 2 Reader

    Student materials

    Skills Unit 3 Reader

    Student materials

    Knowledge 1-4 Activity Book Sample
    Cover of a book titled "Classics Tales: Student Edition" from Amplify, featuring a cross-section of a tree with underground rooms and a scene above of a person walking.

    Teacher materials

    Unit 1 Teacher Guide
    The image shows the cover of a book titled "Fur, Fins, and Feathers: Animal Classification." It features illustrations of various animals and a pond surrounded by lush greenery.

    Teacher materials

    Unit 2 Teacher Guide
    Book cover of "Amplify CKLA Teacher Guide: Rhythm and Rhyme: Poetry Unit 3" featuring butterflies, lily pads, and flowers in a pond scene.

    Teacher materials

    Unit 3 Teacher Guide
    Illustration of Ancient Rome with people in togas, Colosseum, aqueduct, hills, and buildings. Text reads "Amplify CKLA, Unit 4, Rise and Fall: Ancient Rome, Teacher Guide.

    Teacher materials

    Unit 4 Teacher Guide
    Cover of Amplify CKLA Grade 3 unit titled "Timeless Tales: Classic Stories" showing a cross-section of underground animal homes and a rider on a horse above ground.

    Teacher materials

    Unit 1 Image Cards
    Cover of a poetry image cards book titled "Rhythm and Rhyme: Poetry," featuring butterflies and lily pads on a pond with a landscape background.

    Teacher materials

    Unit 3 Image Cards
    Cover image of a textbook titled "Rise and Fall: Ancient Rome" featuring the Colosseum and ancient Roman architecture with people in historical attire and distant hills.

    Teacher materials

    Unit 4 Image Cards
    Blue cover with geometric patterns, labeled "Amplify CKLA" at the top and "Spelling Cards" at the bottom, featuring a "Grade 3" badge.

    Teacher materials

    Spelling Card Set
    Cover of an Amplify CKLA Grade 3 Activity Book showing two units: "Classic Stories" with an underground scene, and "Animal Classification" with a pond scene.

    Student materials

    Unit 1–2 Activity Book
    Book cover of "Rhythm and Rhyme: Poetry," Unit 3, Grade 3, featuring a scenic illustration with a turtle, butterflies, lily pads, and flowers by a pond.

    Student materials

    Unit 3 Poet’s Journal
    Cover of "Amplify CKLA" Grade 3 Activity Book Unit 4, featuring an illustration of Ancient Rome, including the Colosseum and Roman structures against a painted sky background.

    Student materials

    Unit 4 Activity Book
    Book cover titled "Classic Stories" from Amplify CKLA. Illustrations show a cross-section of animals in underground homes and a landscape above with a tree, cyclist, and bridge.

    Student materials

    Unit 1 Reader
    Children's book cover titled "Unit 2: Rattenborough's Guide to Animals" featuring jungle scenery with various animals, including a monkey, jaguar, parrots, and a crocodile.

    Student materials

    Unit 2 Reader
    Illustrated book cover titled "Stories of Ancient Rome" by Amplify CKLA, featuring Roman architecture and people in ancient attire with hills and aqueducts in the background.

    Student materials

    Unit 4 Reader
    Blue book cover titled "Amplify CKLA Skills 1" featuring a large number 1, a deer, a slice of cake, a comb, and trophy icons.

    Teacher materials

    Skills Unit 1 Teacher Guide (supplemental)
    Blue "Skills 2" book cover with number 2, a deer, a comb, cakes, trophies, and phonetic symbols. Labeled "Amplify CKLA Teacher Guide.

    Teacher materials

    Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide (supplemental)
    Blue "Skills Assessment Guide: Unit Assessments" book cover with geometric patterns, labeled "Amplify CKLA" Edition 3 in the top left corner.

    Teacher materials

    Skills Assessment Guide Black Line Master (supplemental)
    Blue book cover titled "Skills Activity Book: Volume 1" with images of a comb, trophies, cake, and a deer. It includes the Amplify CKLA logo at the top left corner.

    Student materials

    Skills Activity Book: Unit 1–2 Black Line Master (supplemental)
    Textbook cover titled "Personal Narratives" with spiral binding, featuring images of an accordion, bike, windmill, chocolate milkshake, and crayons. Angle of view shows part of a rotary phone.

    Teacher materials

    Unit 1 Teacher Guide
    Book cover featuring two knights on horses with flags, in a medieval setting. Title: "Medieval Knights and Castle Life: Europe’s Middle Ages.” Grade 4, Unit 2.

    Teacher materials

    Unit 2 Teacher Guide
    Amplify CKLA Grade 4 book cover titled "Meaning and Metaphor: Poetry" features an illustration of a bookshelf with colorful books, a tree, and mythical creatures.

    Teacher materials

    Unit 3 Teacher Guide
    Cover of "Amplify CKLA: Eureka! Student Inventor, Teacher Guide" featuring illustrated presenters at podiums, with a colorful wheel displaying various icons.

    Teacher materials

    Unit 4 Teacher Guide
    Cover of an activity book titled "Amplify CKLA," with images depicting "Personal Narratives" and "Europe's Middle Ages" against a meadow background. Grade 4 indicated at the top.

    Student materials

    Unit 1–2 Activity Book
    Book cover for "Meaning and Metaphor: Poetry" showing a tree, a book, and a horse silhouette, with colorful elements like leaves and stars on a bookshelf. Grade 4, Unit 3, Amplify CKLA.

    Student materials

    Unit 3 Poet’s Journal
    Cover of "Inventor's Notebook," Amplify CKLA, Grade 4, Unit 4. Features a green, spiral-bound notebook with a doodle on a colorful geometric background.

    Student materials

    Unit 4 Inventor’s Notebook
    Textbook cover titled "Personal Narratives" with spiral binding, featuring images of an accordion, bike, windmill, chocolate milkshake, and crayons. Angle of view shows part of a rotary phone.

    Student materials

    Unit 1 Reader
    Book cover featuring two knights on horses with flags, in a medieval setting. Title: "Medieval Knights and Castle Life: Europe’s Middle Ages.” Grade 4, Unit 2.

    Student materials

    Unit 2 Reader
    A book cover titled "Grade 4 Unit 4: Eureka! Files, Reader" with pencils and colorful tabs.

    Student materials

    Unit 4 Reader
    Cover of an educational book titled "In My Own Words: Personal Narratives" from Amplify CKLA. It features images of bicycles, a building in Washington D.C., and an old bus in Montgomery, AL.

    Teacher materials

    Unit 1 Teacher Guide
    Book cover featuring illustrations of ancient structures, landscapes, and plants with the title "Early Americas: Maya, Aztec, and Inca" on top.

    Teacher materials

    Unit 2 Teacher Guide
    Cover of "Amplify CKLA" Grade 5, Unit 3: Visions in Verse; Poetry. Features a colorful landscape with trees, birds, a pond, and flowers. Labeled as a Teacher Guide.

    Teacher materials

    Unit 3 Teacher Guide
    Illustration of Don Quixote on a horse, pointing at windmills in a field. Cover text reads, "A Knight's Tale: Don Quixote, Teacher Guide, Unit 4, Amplify CKLA.

    Teacher materials

    Unit 4 Teacher Guide
    Cover of the Amplify CKLA Grade 5 Activity Book featuring Unit 1, Personal Narratives, and Unit 2, Maya, Aztec, and Inca topics, against a blue background with marine imagery.

    Student materials

    Unit 1–2 Activity Book
    Book cover titled "Visions in Verse: Poetry" with birds, a snake, and varied fruit near a pond.

    Student materials

    Poet’s Journal
    Cover of "Don Quixote" activity book, featuring a circular illustration of Don Quixote tilting at windmills, with a blue background and marine-themed border.

    Student materials

    Unit 4 Activity Book
    Cover of "Personal Narratives" reader for Grade 5, featuring images of a bicycle, postcards from Miami, Montgomery bus, U.S. Capitol, and a space shuttle. Colorful stationery surrounds the book.

    Student materials

    Unit 1 Reader
    Textbook cover titled "Early Americas: Civilizations and Empires" with images of a pyramid, a landscape, and plants. Part of a Grade 5 curriculum by Amplify CKLA.

    Student materials

    Unit 2 Reader
    Cover of "Adventures of Don Quixote" shows a man in armor on a horse facing a windmill. It's labeled as a Dover Children's Thrift Classic, with easy-to-read type and by Argentine Palacios.

    Student materials

    Unit 4 Reader

    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.