See Amplify CKLA Skills in action.
Step inside a kindergarten classroom and watch students light up during a fun, interactive lesson. From phonics and decoding to fluency, see how structured practice with Amplify CKLA Skills builds the confidence and abilities students need to become strong readers.
Follow along as a real teacher brings Unit 7, Lesson 10: Review Single-Syllable, Short-Vowel Words to life. You’ll see students building foundational reading skills—and you might even pick up a few instructional tips along the way!
Inside the classroom
Oral segmenting
The lesson kicks off with a phonemic warm-up: segmenting words like frost and raising a finger for each sound. After practicing together, individual students take turns modeling for the class, blending movement and sound to show what they know.
Sound/spelling review
The teacher presents cards with letters and digraphs, prompting the whole class to say the sounds and match them to hand motions. She traces key letters, reinforces spelling patterns, and invites individual students to identify sounds, letters, and digraphs aloud.
Spelling and handwriting practice
Students follow along as the teacher models how to identify, read, and write words with digraphs, first working together and then on their own, while the teacher moves around the room to offer guidance. This routine supports phonics, spelling, and handwriting all at once.
Introduce the story
Students review digraphs they’ve just practiced by identifying and circling them in sample words they’ll encounter in an upcoming story. Then, they set a purpose for reading: getting ready to listen for key details.
Read the story
The teacher models fluent reading using a big book. Then, the class reads aloud together, tracking each word with their fingers. To wrap up, students point out digraphs, punctuation, and details in the story to show what they’ve learned.
Discuss the story
Students respond to questions about the story, first as a class and then with a partner, using the book to support their answers. They listen closely to their partners, build on each other’s thinking, and share their partners’ ideas with the whole class.
Partner reading
Students reread the story in pairs, applying their decoding skills together. Because the text is 100% decodable, they can rely on what they’ve learned and on each other when they get stuck. The teacher stays close by to offer support as needed.