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Amplify CKLA 2nd Edition Pilot Packs

Pilot educator,

This is the beginning of the Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) 2nd Edition journey in your classroom! Making this important, evidence-based shift shows your commitment and dedication to your students. We truly appreciate the work you’re doing and are here to help you along the way.

We know it can be overwhelming to start a new curriculum, but we’re here to help! 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 6–12 weeks of core literacy instruction with Amplify CKLA. We hope this site is helpful in getting you started with your pilot.

Thank you for all you do,

—The Amplify CKLA team

Get started

To get started with your new pilot of Amplify CKLA, you’ll first want to review the following:

You may also find these documents helpful as you begin your pilot:

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Pilot Pack components checklist

Below you’ll find the Amplify CKLA Pilot Pack components you should have received in your shipment, outlined by grade level and teacher/student materials. Please click your grade-level teacher materials and student materials to review the list and ensure that you received all of the materials.

An orange workbook cover featuring a ladybug illustration, part of "Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts." The text "Skills 5" is shown at the bottom.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 5 Teacher Guide

Orange book cover for "Skills 6" from Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts, featuring outlined hands and items like hats and pants. Subtext: Teacher Guide, TK Masterscripts.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 6 Teacher Guide

Orange language arts workbook cover with a white shower sketch, water drops, and the word "Skills 7" at the bottom. Drawings include fish, bird, and words like "bath," "th," "finch," and "splash.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 7 Teacher Guide

Book cover titled "Ox and Man" shows people running with an ox on a green hillside.

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Skills Unit 5 Big Book: Ox and Man

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Skills Unit 6 Big Book: Kit

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Skills Unit 7 Big Book: Seth

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Skills Small Letter Card Set

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Skills Large Letter Cards

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Knowledge Domain 2 Teacher Guide: The 5 Senses

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Knowledge Domain 3 Teacher Guide: Stories

Colorful illustration of a lush hillside with a variety of plants and a house in the background, titled "knowledge 4 plants" for a kindergarten workbook.

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Knowledge Domain 4 Teacher Guide: Plants

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Knowledge Domain 2 Image Cards: The 5 Senses

Cover of "knowledge 3" kindergarten image cards featuring a colorful illustration of children and animals engaging with storybook characters in a fantasy setting.

Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 3 Image Cards: Stories

Illustration on a book cover showing various plants, a garden, and a red house, under a bright sun, titled "knowledge 4 - plants" for kindergarten level.

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Knowledge Domain 4 Image Cards: Plants

Illustration of children exploring giant sensory organs in a vibrant landscape, representing the five senses in a playful educational setting.

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Knowledge Domain 2 Flip Book: The 5 Senses

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Knowledge Domain 3 Flip Book: Stories

Illustration on a book cover showing various plants, a garden, and a red house, under a bright sun, titled "knowledge 4 - plants" for kindergarten level.

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Knowledge Domain 4 Flip Book: Plants

Back cover of an amplify core knowledge language arts pilot sample card deck, with qr code and isbn, featuring education-themed illustrations.

Teacher materials

Sound Cards Sampler

Educational poster titled "sound posters" for kindergarten, featuring various illustrations like a boat, globe, and animals on a red background with a qr code on the bottom right.

Teacher materials

Sound Posters Sampler

Student materials

Skills Unit 6 Reader: Kit

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Skills Unit 7 Reader: Seth

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Skills Unit 5 Activity Book

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Skills Unit 6 Activity Book

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Skills Unit 7 Activity Book

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Chaining Folder

Book cover titled "look at the", marked as a "pilot sample" with educational doodles on a red background, labeled "picture reader" for "kindergarten" skills.

Student materials

Picture Reader Sampler

Educational book cover titled "amplify core knowledge language arts" featuring colorful illustrations of animals, fruits, and plants across four seasonal themes.

Student materials

Knowledge Domains 2, 3, and 4 Sampler

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Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide

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Skills Unit 3 Teacher Guide

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Skills Unit 4 Teacher Guide

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Skills Unit 2 Big Book: Gran

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Skills Unit 3 Big Book: Fables

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Skills Vowel Code Flip Book

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Skills Large Letter Cards

A grade 1 spelling cards booklet titled "core knowledge language arts" from the center for early reading-amplify, featuring educational symbols like a pencil and sun on a orange cover.

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Skills Spelling Cards

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Knowledge Domain 2 Teacher Guide: The Human Body

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Knowledge Domain 3 Teacher Guide: Different Lands, Similar Stories

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Knowledge Domain 5 Teacher Guide: Early American Civilizations

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Knowledge Domain 2 Image Cards: The Human Body

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Knowledge Domain 3 Image Cards: Different Lands, Similar Stories

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Knowledge Domain 5 Image Cards: Early American Civilizations

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Knowledge Domain 2 Flip Book: The Human Body

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Knowledge Domain 3 Flip Book: Different Lands, Similar Stories

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Knowledge Domain 5 Flip Book: Early American Civilizations

Illustration of a grandmother embracing two children, with a house labeled "gran" in the background, surrounded by foliage.

Student materials

Skills Unit 2 Reader: Gran

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Skills Unit 3 Reader: Fables

Illustration of various animals, including a puffin, deer, fox, otter, and others, on a green background with the title "the green fern zoo.

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Skills Unit 4 Reader: The Green Fern Zoo

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Skills Unit 2 Activity Book

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Skills Unit 3 Activity Book

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Skills Unit 4 Activity Book

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Skills Individual Code Chart

Illustration of a colorful educational book cover titled "amplify core knowledge language arts" for grade 1, featuring diverse thematic circles like farming, space, and cultures.

Student materials

Knowledge Domains 2, 3, and 5 Sampler

Green book cover titled "Skills 2," showing a white outline drawing of a mole above the word "mole." Background features doodles and words like "bite" and "bat.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide

Bright green cover of a textbook titled "Skills 3," featuring a graduation cap illustration. The text mentions "Core Knowledge Language Arts" and "Grade 2 Teacher Guide.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 3 Teacher Guide

Green educational worksheet displaying a large letter "V" surrounded by various illustrations representing words starting with "V," such as a volcano and violin.

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Skills Vowel Code Flip Book

A green educational workbook cover titled "Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts," featuring a large white letter 'C' and doodles of animals and objects in the background.

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Skills Consonant Code Flip Book

Cover of "Core Knowledge Language Arts: Spelling Cards, Grade 2" featuring symbols like an eye, lightbulb, key, paw, and letters on a green background.

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Skills Spelling Cards

Cover illustration of a book titled "Knowledge 1: Fairy Tales and Tall Tales." Shows a giant lumberjack, castle, fish, and a person facing the scene, surrounded by trees and a river.

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Knowledge Domain 1 Teacher Guide: Fairy Tales and Tall Tales

Cover of a book titled "Knowledge 4, Greek Myths," showing illustrations of mythical figures, creatures, and landscapes under a sunny sky.

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Knowledge Domain 4 Teacher Guide: Greek Myths

Illustrated book cover showing a garden scene with butterflies, insects, flowers, and greenery under a blue sky. Title reads "Knowledge 8: Insects" from the Core Knowledge Language Arts series.

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Knowledge Domain 8 Teacher Guide: Insects

Illustrated book cover featuring Greek mythological characters, including a lion-headed figure and an archer, with a landscape of mythical creatures and structures in the background.

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Knowledge Domain 4 Image Cards: Greek Myths

Colorful illustration of a natural scene with insects, flowers, and a pond on a book cover titled "Knowledge 8 Insects" for Grade 2 language arts.

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Knowledge Domain 8 Image Cards: Insects

Illustration of a giant lumberjack with an axe, a cow, and people on a castle wall, in a colorful storybook design. Titled "Knowledge 1: Fairy Tales and Tall Tales.

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Knowledge Domain 1 Flip Book: Fairy Tales and Tall Tales

Illustration of Greek mythology featuring Artemis aiming a bow, a Minotaur in a labyrinth, and mythical symbols. Labeled "Knowledge 4 Greek Myths" for a language arts program.

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Knowledge Domain 4 Flip Book: Greek Myths

Colorful illustration of a garden with flowers, a beehive, butterflies, bees, and a beekeeper by a pond. The book is titled "Knowledge 8: Insects" for Grade 2 Language Arts.

Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 4 Image Cards: Greek Myths

Illustrated book cover titled "Bedtime Tales" showing a man sitting on a bed with two children, one boy and one girl, leaning against him. Colorful patterns are in the background.

Student materials

Skills Unit 2 Reader: Bedtime Tales

Children play jump rope on a basketball court near a park. The words "Kids Excel" are on the image.

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Skills Unit 3 Reader: Kids Excel

A workbook cover featuring a stylized illustration of a mole, labeled "mole" and "oe." It includes sketches of a bed, clock, and letters. Title: "Skills 2 Activity Book, Grade 2.

Student materials

Skills Unit 2 Activity Book

Image of a green activity book cover titled "Skills 3" with a graduation cap illustration and various educational doodles in the background.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 3 Activity Book

A chart featuring various hand-drawn doodles, including a sailboat, dog, hat, bell, and cooking pot, used for language arts.

Student materials

Skills Individual Code Chart

Cover of a Grade 2 activity book titled "Knowledge" by Amplify, featuring colorful illustrations of myths and folktales, including "Kite" and "Why the Sky Is Far Away.

Student materials

Knowledge Domains 1, 4, and 8 Sampler

Illustrated book cover titled "Unit 2 Animal Classification," featuring a leopard, frog, turtle, crane, rocks, and foliage under a partly cloudy sky.

Teacher materials

Unit 2 Teacher Guide: Animal Classification

Cover of a textbook titled "Unit 5: Light and Sound" featuring an illustration of a bouncing cow and various objects like a tree and lemon slices on a table.

Teacher materials

Unit 5 Teacher Guide: Light and Sound

Book cover titled "Unit 3: Native American Regions and Cultures" with an illustration of a desert landscape and sky designs.

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Unit 8 Teacher Guide: Native Americans: Regions and Culture

Illustrated cover depicting a dog chasing a bee under a tree with a sun and lens flare in the background. Text reads "Unit 5, Light and Sound, Image Cards, Grade 3" with Amplify logo.

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Unit 5 Image Cards: Light and Sound

Book cover with a stylized illustration of a person in a rocky landscape under a cloudy sky. Text reads: "Unit 8 Native Americans: Regions and Cultures, Image Cards, Grade 2.

Teacher materials

Unit 8 Image Cards: Native Americans: Regions and Cultures

Colorful illustration of various animals including a jaguar, heron, frog, turtle, and fish in a natural setting, featured on the cover of an educational material titled "Rattenborough’s Guide to Animals.

Student materials

Unit 2 Reader: Rattenborough’s Guide to Animals

Cover of "Adventures in Light and Sound," Unit 5 Reader by Amplify, showing illustrations of a dog jumping near a tree, with abstract shapes and colors in the background.

Student materials

Unit 5 Reader: Adventures in Light and Sound

Book cover featuring a landscape painting of cliffs under a cloudy sky, labeled "Unit 8: Native American Stories," with "Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts" at the top.

Student materials

Unit 8 Reader: Native American Stories

Illustrated book cover featuring a leopard, frog, turtle, crane, and jewel-like objects in a natural setting. Title reads "Unit 2 Animal Classification, Grade 3.

Teacher materials

Unit 2 Activity Book: Animal Classification

Illustrated cover of an educational book titled "Unit 5: Light and Sound" for Grade 1, depicting a tree, playing squirrels, a sun, and large glasses on a white table.

Student materials

Unit 5 Activity Book: Light and Sound

Cover of a book titled "Unit 8: Native Americans: Regions and Cultures," featuring an illustration of a person walking through a desert landscape.

Student materials

Unit 8 Activity Book: Native Americans: Regions and Cultures

Cover of a Unit 3 Poetry workbook featuring gold illustrations of mythical creatures and designs on a brown background.

Teacher materials

Unit 3 Teacher Guide: Poetry

A geology textbook cover with an image of wavy, layered rock formations. The text on the cover reads "Unit 5 Geology.

Teacher materials

Unit 5 Teacher Guide: Geology

Cover of "Unit 7: American Revolution" shows people in colonial attire ringing a large bell indoors.

Teacher materials

Unit 7 Teacher Guide: American Revolution

A journal cover titled "Poet's Journal" for Grade 6, Unit 2. The design includes brown illustrations of a sun, dinosaur, leaves, and other decorative elements on a tan background.

Student materials

Unit 3 Poet’s Journal

Textbook cover titled "Unit 5: Geology: The Changing Earth" featuring a photo of wave-like rock formations with layered patterns.

Student materials

Unit 5 Reader: Geology: The Changing Earth

Illustration of colonial people and a large bell, with text: "Unit 7 American Revolution: The Road to Independence.

Student materials

Unit 7 Reader: American Revolution: The Road to Independence

Textbook cover titled "Unit 5: Geology" featuring a photo of layered rock formations with swirling patterns and vivid colors.

Student materials

Unit 5 Activity Book: Geology

Illustration of people ringing a large bell in a historical setting, with men, women, and a child present. Text on the cover reads "Unit 7 American Revolution" for Grade 4.

Student materials

Unit 7 Activity Book: American Revolution

Textbook cover titled "Unit 2: Early American Civilizations" with an illustrated figure in red, white, and green, adorned with feathers and holding a staff.

Teacher materials

Unit 2 Teacher Guide: Early American Civilizations

Book cover featuring illustrations of an umbrella, microscope, compass, bird, and stars. Label indicates Unit 3 on poetry for 5th-grade language arts.

Teacher materials

Unit 3 Teacher Guide: Poetry

Cover of a workbook titled "Adventures of Don Quixote," featuring an illustration of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza on horseback under a crescent moon.

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Unit 4 Teacher Guide: The Adventures of Don Quixote

Textbook cover titled "Unit 2: Early American Civilizations: Maya, Aztec, and Inca," featuring colorful illustration of a figure in traditional attire.

Student materials

Unit 2 Reader: Early American Civilization

Cover of "Poet's Journal," Grade 6, Unit 5. Features illustrations of an umbrella, crow, book, key, and a telescope against a brown background. Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts at top.

Student materials

Unit 3 Poet’s Journal

Cover of "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios, Dover Children's Thrift Classics. It features an illustration of Don Quixote and his horse near windmills.

Student materials

Unit 4 Reader: The Adventures of Don Quixote (trade book)

Cover of a Grade 5 activity book titled "Unit 2: Early American Civilizations" features a colorful illustration of an Aztec-style figure.

Student materials

Unit 2 Activity Book: Early American Civilization

Cover illustration of "Adventures of Don Quixote" from Unit 4, featuring Don Quixote on horseback with a spear, under a crescent moon, in a vintage purple-toned style.

Student materials

Unit 4 Activity Book: The Adventures of Don Quixote

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