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Teach your students to think critically about everything they read.

Amplify’s middle school literacy programs were designed to prepare students in grades 6–8 for high school and beyond by immersing them in complex texts and teaching them to think for themselves about everything they read. Learn more about Amplify ELA (our core English language arts curriculum) and Boost Close Reading (our supplemental reading program).

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Amplify ELA

Amplify ELA is a blended English language arts curriculum designed for grades 6–8. With Amplify ELA, students learn to tackle any complex text and make observations, grapple with interesting ideas, and build connections.

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Boost Close Reading

Boost Close Reading is an immersive supplemental reading program that engages students with an interactive graphic novel. Through high-interest storytelling and guided instruction, students build their close reading skills.

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Ready to learn more about our middle school suite?

Fill out this form, and we’ll be in touch with you shortly.

Explore more programs based on the Science of Reading.

Our early literacy suite programs based on the Science of Reading are designed to support and complement each other. Learn more about integrated programs below.

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Amplify CKLA

Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) is a language arts program for Grade…

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mCLASS

mCLASS is an assessment and instruction system that helps measure your child’s l…

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Boost Reading

Boost Reading provides your child with the opportunity to learn and practice lit…

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Welcome, New Mexico state reviewers!

Thank you for taking the time to review Amplify’s K–8 science programs for New Mexico. This site provides resources to aid in your review so you can experience all that our high-quality instructional materials have to offer.  Simply click a grade level band below to get started.

Amplify Science K–5 Amplify Science 6–8
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The one-stop solution for New Jersey’s literacy mandates

New Jersey now requires universal literacy screening and parent notifications. To meet these mandates, NJDOE’s Student Literacy Working Group fully recommends mCLASSⓇ DIBELSⓇ 8th Edition as the trusted solution to help schools.

Some of the requirements of the New Jersey Department of Education’s Senate Bill 2644 include: 

  • Mandatory screenings: Schools must conduct literacy screenings for all K–3 students at least twice annually to assess reading proficiency levels.
  • Parental notification: Within 30 days of the screening period’s end, schools are required to inform parents or guardians of the results, including comparisons to grade-level norms and available intervention supports.

mCLASS offers New Jersey all of the following, plus many more additional features to support students and teachers:

  • Universal screening
  • Dyslexia screening
  • Instant data analysis and reporting
  • Parental notification letter

Request a demo from your dedicated New Jersey team!

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What is mCLASS?

mCLASS, the only digital provider of DIBELS 8th edition assessments, provides universal screening, dyslexia screening, and progress monitoring to assess your students’ reading proficiency levels and determine what skills they need to develop.

You’ll observe students as they form sounds or read words and text. Then, mCLASS instantly scores and analyzes student response patterns to provide you with diagnostic data and instructional focus for each student and group.

With mCLASS, you’ll have everything you need to support every type of learner in your classroom, including advanced learners, multilingual learners, and students with signs of dyslexia.

Learn more about mCLASS.

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About the program

mCLASS offers teacher-administered assessment, intervention, and personalized instruction for grades K–6. Know exactly how to monitor and support every student in your classroom with features like:

  • Precise one-minute measures based on over three decades of predictive data.
  • Universal screening and dyslexia screening in one tool.
  • Instruction that highlights observed patterns and recommends activities.
  • Robust reports for teachers, specialists, administrators, and parents.

Learn more about mCLASS.

Support for your Spanish-speaking students.

By combining mCLASS Lectura and mCLASS® DIBELS 8th Edition, you’ll be able to understand where your Spanish-speaking students are in their English and Spanish literacy paths.

Learn more about mCLASS Lectura.

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NEW! mCLASS Math

Expect more from your assessments with mCLASS Math, a brand-new benchmarking and progress-monitoring assessment system.

Explore mCLASS® Math. 

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Looking for high-quality instructional materials for literacy?

Amplify CKLA 3rd edition is built on a decade of research focusing on background knowledge, foundational skills, and writing. Pair CKLA with mCLASS to align for a powerful early literacy suite.

Learn more about CKLA 3rd edition.

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Request a demo

If you’d like a demo, complete this form and your dedicated New Jersey team will be in touch.

New research brief: K–2 early literacy improvements offer hope, but persistent challenges remain.

Amplify’s research brief on the latest K–2 middle-of-school-year literacy data reveals encouraging gains in early reading, particularly among the nation’s youngest students. This year’s kindergarten cohort has returned to pre-pandemic literacy readiness levels. But overall progress remains slow: Only 56% of students are on track for learning to read, and 29% of students are far behind.

Middle-of-year data can help schools plan for instructional changes and implement those changes before the following school year. See the report’s recommendations for actions schools and districts can take now.

Download the research brief
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Explore Amplify’s middle-of-year research brief.

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How many students are on track to learn to read?

While all grades across K–2 show signs of year-over-year progress, with more students on-track for learning to read than there were in 2023–24, broader literacy gains remain slow, with a little more than half of students across early grades (K–2) on track for core reading instruction.

Read More

Bar chart showing the percent of kindergarten students far behind: 29%, 47%, 37%, 32%, 30%, and 29% across six groups.

How many students are at risk for not learning to read?

All grades across K–2 show the percentage of students at the greatest risk for not learning to read decreasing year-over-year. While fewer students are considered far behind today than in 2023–24, more than a quarter of students across grades K–2 are at the greatest risk for not learning to read.

Read More

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Take a deeper dive into progress monitoring.

Progress monitoring—identifying, supporting, and tracking outcomes—is one strategy schools can engage in when working with students who are the most at-risk for not learning to read.

Read More

Read more research and case studies.

Amplify’s high-quality programs benefit millions of students every day using methods that are evidence-based, ESSA-aligned, and showing efficacy in a variety of contexts. Read more research and case studies and see more briefs on early literacy.

Welcome, Oregon educators!

Thank you for taking the time to review Amplify’s K–8 science programs for Oregon. This site will allow your committees to easily access grade-level teacher and student resources digitally, and experience all that our high-quality instructional materials have to offer.

Amplify Science for grades K–8 has been rated all-green by EdReports. Read the review on EdReports.

Explore Grades K–5 Explore Grades 6–8
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Contact us

Support is always within reach. Our team is dedicated to supporting districts across Oregon and can be reached at any time by emailing HelloOregon@amplify.com or by calling us directly.

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Erin Elfving-Strayhan

Senior Account Executive

Districts over 3,000 students

(971) 291-9854

estrayhan@amplify.com

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Kristen Rockstroh, M.Ed.

Account Executive

Districts under 3,000 students

(480) 639-8367

krockstroh@amplify.com

Welcome, Ohio educators!

Thank you for taking the time to review Amplify’s CKLA resources for K–5.

Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts® (CKLA) is an effective core literacy resource for students in grades K–5 and is aligned to Ohio’s Rule for Phonics. CKLA was developed in partnership with the Core Knowledge Foundation and was specifically designed to help teachers implement proven evidence-based instructional practices.

Click here for correlations to the Ohio Learning Standards for English Language Arts.

Click here to view Amplify CKLA’s Alignment to Ohio’s “Shifting to the Science of Reading” Framework.

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Recognized Quality

Amplify CKLA is one of only a few high-quality, knowledge-building literacy curricula recognized by the Knowledge Matters campaign. Our shared message: Background knowledge is essential to literacy and learning.

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Independently and rigorously reviewed

Amplify CKLA not only received an all-green rating from the rigorous evaluators at EdReports, but it was also recently recognized by the Knowledge Matters Campaign as a literacy program that excels in building knowledge.

Read our EdReports review
Read our Knowledge Matters review

Intentional knowledge-building

The Science of Reading reveals knowledge as an essential pillar of reading comprehension and lifelong literacy. Hear from author Natalie Wexler and CKLA customers on edWebinar about the importance of knowledge-building in reading instruction.

Hear from Natalie Wexler
edWebinar Links

Designed for Ohio

We know there are several different paths you can take when implementing a Science of Reading program in your district::

  • Prekindergarten
  • K-2 Core No Foundational Skills
  • K-2 Supplemental Foundational Skills
  • K-2 Core Comprehensive English Language Arts
  • 3-5 English Language Arts
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PreKindergarten

Amplify CKLA PreK easily fits into any class routine, with 45 minutes of interac…

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K-2 Core No Foundational Skills

The most extensive and robust knowledge-building sequence that builds within and…

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K-2 Supplemental Foundational Skills

Amplify CKLA Skills is a comprehensive foundational skills program offering expl…

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K-2 Core Comprehensive English Language Arts

In grades K–2, students complete one lesson that builds foundational reading ski…

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3-5 English Language Arts

In Amplify CKLA grades 3–5, lessons begin to combine skills and knowledge with i…

Program Overview

Amplify CKLA is a core ELA program for grades K–5 that delivers:

  • A unique research-based approach truly built on the Science of Reading.
  • A combination of explicit foundational skills with meaningful knowledge building.
  • Embedded support and differentiation that gets all students reading grade-level texts together.
  • Opportunities for students to see the strengths and experiences that all people share while also celebrating each others’ unique identities and experiences.
  • Authentic Spanish language arts instruction with Amplify Caminos.

Amplify CKLA for Grades K–2

After watching the K–2 video below, scroll down to learn even more, download resources, and access a demo.

Amplify CKLA for Grades 3–5

After watching the 3–5 video below, scroll down to learn even more, download resources, and access a demo.

How it works

Amplify CKLA teaches both foundational skills and background knowledge in K–2 and combines them in 3–5, as required by the science of reading.

  • In grades K–2, students complete one full lesson that builds foundational reading skills, as well as one full lesson that builds background knowledge.
  • In grades 3–5, student complete one integrated lesson that combines skills and knowledge with increasingly complex texts, close reading, and a greater writing emphasis.
Download CKLA Program Guide
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Rich topics

Amplify CKLA builds knowledge coherently across subjects and grades.

Students make connections from year-to-year by exploring grade-appropriate subject-area knowledge and vocabulary in history, science, literature, and the arts while learning to read, write, and think creatively and for themselves.

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Units by grade

Take a closer look at the topics students explore.

New! Knowledge Research Units

Explore our newly added Knowledge Research units.

Skills by grade

Take a closer look at the skills students develop.

Diverse text

Amplify CKLA puts a variety of texts in the hands of students every day to build and strengthen background knowledge and vocabulary, listening and reading comprehension, and decoding and fluency skills.

More than that, we ensure the texts students read represent the world around them. With a diverse range of authors, topics, and characters, all students have ample access to both windows and mirrors. Our texts include:

  • authentic books.
  • authentic text passages.
  • student readers.
  • novel guides (grades 3–5).

Grade K Text List

Grade 1 Text List

Grade 2 Text List

Grade 3 Text List

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Grade 4 Text List

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Grade 5 Text List

Aligned to LETRS and Orton Gillingham

Amplify CKLA aligns with the instructional principles recommended by Orton Gillingham and LETRS.

  • Structured–Concepts are taught through consistent routines
  • Sequential–Concepts are taught in a logical, well-planned sequence
  • Systematic–Phonemes are taught from simplest to most complex
  • Explicit–Decoding and encoding concepts are taught directly and explicitly
  • Multi-sensory–Instruction is delivered through visual, auditory, and kinesthetic-tactile pathways
  • Cumulative–Concepts are applied in decodable, connected texts with constant review and reinforcement
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CKLA Skills sequence for K–2

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CKLA Skills sequence for 3–5

Universal access

We believe we have a responsibility to provide literacy instruction that gives every student the same opportunity to succeed and excel.

We know that early reading affects achievement throughout school and beyond—well into college and career. Yet most literacy programs continue to fall short of supporting early literacy success. That’s why we’re so proud that CKLA is helping close the reading gap between students within diverse communities.

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Grades K–2: Supporting all learners

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Grades 3–5: Supporting all learners

Complete curriculum

A strong literacy program is not just about a reading program or an assessment tool: it brings together curriculum, instruction, regular practice, intervention, and assessments.

Amplify has brought these components together in our early literacy suite of curriculum, ensure that you have what you need for multi-tiered support.

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CKLA and mCLASS

CKLA connects to our comprehensive diagnostic universal screener called mCLASS.

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CKLA and Boost Reading

CKLA connects to our adaptive reading practice program called Boost Reading.

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CKLA and Language Studio

CKLA aligns with Language Studio–our ELD companion program for grades K–5.

CKLA and Writing Studio

CKLA aligns with Writing Studio–our writing companion program for grades K–5.

Science of Reading Resources

Watching students learn to read: magic. Knowing how they get there: science.

As you consider your next core ELA program, it’s critically important to understand what the Science of Reading really means and what it tells us about how to teach more effectively. Unlike other programs, Amplify CKLA was built upon these insights and practices, making it easier for teachers to implement this proven approach.

Explore Science of Reading Handbook
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Access demo

Ready to explore on your own? Follow the instructions below to access your demo account.

Explore the CKLA Teacher Digital Site

First, watch the quick navigation video to the right. Then follow the directions below:

  • Click the CKLA Teacher Digital Site button
  • Select Log in with Amplify.
  • Enter this username: t1.cklareviewohio@demo.tryamplify.net
  • Enter this password: Amplify1-cklareviewohio
  • Select the desired grade level
Access CKLA Teacher Digital Site

Explore the CKLA Student Digital Site

To access the student digital site follow the directions below:

  • Click the CKLA Student Digital Site button
  • Select Log in with Amplify.
  • Enter this username: s1.cklareviewohio@demo.tryamplify.net
  • Enter this password: Amplify1-cklareviewohio
  • From the Home page, scroll down to the robot and “Click to go to the Hub“
  • From the Hub, click the Grade button to select the grade.
Access CKLA Student Digital Site

Welcome, Idaho ELA Review Committee!

Amplify CKLA and Amplify ELA aren’t your traditional core programs. They’re different to make a difference — and the results are undeniable. Truly built on the Science of Reading, our high-quality ELA solutions help teachers bring evidence-based practices to life in the classroom.

This site includes everything you need for your review, including digital access to teacher and student materials and additional review resources.

Review PK–5 ELA Review 6–8 ELA

Welcome, Washington County ELA Review Committee!

Amplify CKLA and Amplify ELA aren’t your traditional core programs. They’re different to make a difference — and the results are undeniable. Truly built on the Science of Reading, our high-quality ELA solutions help teachers bring evidence-based practices to life in the classroom.

This site includes everything you need for your review, including digital access to teacher and student materials and additional review resources.

Review PK–5 ELA Review 6–8 ELA
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Welcome, Davis ELA Reviewers!

Amplify’s ELA solutions aren’t your traditional core programs. They’re different to make a difference — and the results are undeniable. Truly built on the Science of Reading, our high-quality ELA solutions help teachers bring evidence-based practices to life in the classroom.

This site includes information for your review, including digital access to teacher and student materials and additional review resources.  Click below to get started.

Review Grades K–1 Review Grades 2-3
Review Grades 4–5 Review Grade 6

Contact Us

Looking to speak directly with your Amplify representative? Please contact…

Bob McCarty
Senior Account Executive
435-655-1731
rmccarty@amplify.com

Amplify ELA Review for Washington County

Amplify ELA is the only ELA curriculum that takes the Science of Reading to the next level.

Truly designed for students entering the middle grades, Amplify ELA engages and empowers learners, and addresses the very specific and unique needs of students in grades 6–8.

Scroll down to learn how ELA is uniquely designed to help all your middle schoolers make learning leaps in literacy.

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Meet Amplify ELA

Developed specifically for the needs of students entering the middle grades, Amplify ELA is a blended curriculum that promises:

  • A structured, yet flexible approach.
  • Carefully crafted, age-appropriate materials and activities that aren’t too “babyish” or too mature.
  • Complex, content-rich literature and informational texts that ensure ample opportunities for students to encounter both “windows and mirrors”.
  • Highly engaging lessons that keep adolescents plugged in and motivated to learn.
  • An instructional design that levels the playing field for every student.
  • Superior results.
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Program Guide

Learn more about key program features and how the program works.

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Program structure

Take a look at how ELA is structured and organized.

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Grade 6 Overview

Take a closer look at the units that make up our Grade 6 curriculum.

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Grade 7 Overview

Take a closer look at the units that make up our Grade 7 curriculum.

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Grade 8 Overview

Take a closer look at the units that make up our Grade 8 curriculum.

Access, engagement, and equity

In Amplify ELA, all students read the same text with the help of differentiated supports. In other words, we don’t dumb things down; we bring students up. Our robust collection of diverse texts and research-based approach to instruction not only engage students, but build confidence.

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Differentiated supports

Learn more about how Amplify ELA supports every student by providing six levels…

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Robust library

Learn more about the more than 650 classic and contemporary fiction and nonficti…

Novel Guides

Our novel guides provide teachers with flexible study guides for the books they…

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Newsela partnership

Amplify ELA has partnered with Newsela to bring the world into your classroom.

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Poetry in America

Our partnership with Poetry in America brings poets like Richard Blanco right to…

ELLs

With Amplify ELA’s integrated and designated ELD support, English language learners are given a chance to shine.

Embedded supports enable students to engage with and participate in discussion of grade-level texts with their grade-level peers.

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Integrated ELD

Learn more about the types of integrated support found in Amplify ELA.

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Designated ELD

Learn more about our designated ELD program that works alongside Amplify ELA.

Access demo

Ready to explore on your own? Follow the instructions below to access your demo account.

Access the ELA Teacher Digital Platform

First, watch the quick navigation video to the right. Then login using the directions below.

  • Click the ELA Teacher Platform button below.
  • Select Log in with Amplify.
  • Enter this username: t1.washcolangarts@demo.tryamplify.net
  • Enter this password: Amplify1-washcolangarts
  • Select Grade 6
Access ELA Teacher Platform

Welcome to Amplify ELA!

Amplify ELA is the only ELA curriculum that takes the Science of Reading to the next level.

Truly designed for students entering the middle grades, Amplify ELA engages and empowers learners, and addresses the very specific and unique needs of students in grades 6–8.

Scroll down to learn how ELA is uniquely designed to help all your middle schoolers make learning leaps in literacy.

Illustration of a woman's profile with floral hair decorations, a group of diverse children reading, and an astronaut, with text "read the report: edreports review year 2019.

Meet Amplify ELA

Developed specifically for the needs of students entering the middle grades, Amplify ELA is a blended curriculum that promises:

  • A structured, yet flexible approach.
  • Carefully crafted, age-appropriate materials and activities that aren’t too “babyish” or too mature.
  • Complex, content-rich literature and informational texts that ensure ample opportunities for students to encounter both “windows and mirrors”.
  • Highly engaging lessons that keep adolescents plugged in and motivated to learn.
  • An instructional design that levels the playing field for every student.
  • Superior results.

Program Guide

Learn more about key program features and how the program works.
Two women sitting at a table. One is using a laptop, and the other is writing in a notebook. Both are smiling.

Program structure

Take a look at how ELA is structured and organized.

Grade 6 Overview

Take a closer look at the units that make up our Grade 6 curriculum.

Grade 7 Overview

Take a closer look at the units that make up our Grade 7 curriculum.

Grade 8 Overview

Take a closer look at the units that make up our Grade 8 curriculum.

Access, engagement, and equity

In Amplify ELA, all students read the same text with the help of differentiated supports. In other words, we don’t dumb things down; we bring students up. Our robust collection of diverse texts and research-based approach to instruction not only engage students, but build confidence.

Access, engagement, and equity
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Differentiated supports

Learn more about how Amplify ELA supports every student by providing six levels of differentiated support.
La pantalla de una computadora portátil muestra una cuadrícula de varias portadas de libros, incluidos títulos como "Las aventuras de Alicia en el país de las maravillas", "Siempre octubre" y "La vuelta al mundo en ochenta días".

Robust library

Learn more about the more than 650 classic and contemporary fiction
and nonfiction books in the Amplify Library.

Novel Guides

Our novel guides provide teachers with flexible study guides
for the books they most want to teach.
Screenshot of an educational website's interface displaying a unit on "mysteries and investigations" with articles and images related to different mysteries.

Newsela partnership

Amplify ELA has partnered with Newsela to bring the world into your classroom.

Poetry in America

Our partnership with Poetry in America brings poets like Richard Blanco right to your classroom.

ELLs

With Amplify ELA’s integrated and designated ELD support, English language learners are given a chance to shine.

Embedded supports enable students to engage with and participate in discussion of grade-level texts with their grade-level peers.

ELLs
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Integrated ELD

Learn more about the types of integrated support found in Amplify ELA.

Designated ELD

Learn more about our designated ELD program that works alongside Amplify ELA.

Access Demo

Ready to explore on your own? Follow the instructions below to access your demo account.

Access the ELA Teacher Digital Platform

First, watch the quick navigation video to the right. Then login using the button below.

  • Click the ELA Teacher Platform button below.
  • Select Log in with Amplify.
  • Enter this username: t1.davislangarts@demo.tryamplify.net
  • Enter this password: Amplify1-davislangarts
  • From the homepage, click “ELA” on the left hand side.

 

Access ELA Teacher Platform

Access the ELA Student Digital Platform

To access the Student Digital Platform, follow these directions below:

  • Click the ELA Student Platform button below.
  • Select Log in with Amplify.
  • Enter this username: s1.davislangarts@demo.tryamplify.net
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Recognized Quality

Amplify CKLA is one of only a few high-quality, knowledge-building literacy curricula recognized by the Knowledge Matters campaign. Our shared message: Background knowledge is essential to literacy and learning.

Science of Reading Approved by USBE

Amplify CKLA is a content-rich literacy curriculum that systematically braids knowledge-building with skills instruction. Click below to see our state submission rubric on how Amplify CKLA addresses the Science of Reading requirements outlined in SB 127.

Review our state checklist

Independently and rigorously reviewed

Amplify CKLA not only received an all-green rating from the rigorous evaluators at EdReports, but it was also recently recognized by the Knowledge Matters Campaign as a literacy program that excels in building knowledge.

Read our EdReports review
Read our Knowledge Matters review

Intentional knowledge-building

The Science of Reading reveals knowledge as an essential pillar of reading comprehension and lifelong literacy. Hear from author Natalie Wexler and CKLA customers on edWebinar about the importance of knowledge-building in reading instruction.

Hear from Natalie Wexler
edWebinar Links

Program Overview

Amplify CKLA is a core ELA program for grades K–5 that delivers:

  • A unique research-based approach truly built on the Science of Reading.
  • A combination of explicit foundational skills with meaningful knowledge building.
  • Embedded support and differentiation that gets all students reading grade-level texts together.
  • Opportunities for students to see the strengths and experiences that all people share while also celebrating each others’ unique identities and experiences.
  • Authentic Spanish language arts instruction with Amplify Caminos.

 

Amplify CKLA for Grades K–2

After watching the K–2 video below, scroll down to learn even more, download resources, and access a demo.

Amplify CKLA for Grades 3–5

After watching the 3–5 video below, scroll down to learn even more, download resources, and access a demo.

How it works

Amplify CKLA teaches both foundational skills and background knowledge in K–2 and combines them in 3–5, as required by the science of reading.

  • In grades K–2, students complete one full lesson that builds foundational reading skills, as well as one full lesson that builds background knowledge.
  • In grades 3–5, student complete one integrated lesson that combines skills and knowledge with increasingly complex texts, close reading, and a greater writing emphasis.

 

Download CKLA Program Guide

How it works

Rich topics

Amplify CKLA builds knowledge coherently across subjects and grades.

Students make connections from year-to-year by exploring grade-appropriate subject-area knowledge and vocabulary in history, science, literature, and the arts while learning to read, write, and think creatively and for themselves.

Rich topics
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Units by grade

Take a closer look at the topics students explore.
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New! Knowledge Research Units

Explore our newly added Knowledge Research units.
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Skills by grade

Take a closer look at the skills students develop.

Diverse text

Amplify CKLA puts a variety of texts in the hands of students every day to build and strengthen background knowledge and vocabulary, listening and reading comprehension, and decoding and fluency skills.

More than that, we ensure the texts students read represent the world around them. With a diverse range of authors, topics, and characters, all students have ample access to both windows and mirrors. Our texts include:

  • Authentic books.
  • Authentic text passages.
  • Student Readers.
  • Novel Guides (grades 3–5).
Diverse text
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Grade K Text List
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Grade 1 Text List
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Grade 2 Text List
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Grade 3 Text List
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Grade 4 Text List
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Grade 5 Text List

Aligned to LETRS and Orton Gillingham

Amplify CKLA aligns with the instructional principles recommended by Orton Gillingham and LETRS.

  • Structured–Concepts are taught through consistent routines
  • Sequential–Concepts are taught in a logical, well-planned sequence
  • Systematic–Phonemes are taught from simplest to most complex
  • Explicit–Decoding and encoding concepts are taught directly and explicitly
  • Multi-sensory–Instruction is delivered through visual, auditory, and kinesthetic-tactile pathways
  • Cumulative–Concepts are applied in decodable, connected texts with constant review and reinforcement
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CKLA Skills sequence for K–2
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CKLA Skills sequence for 3–5

Universal access

We believe we have a responsibility to provide literacy instruction that gives every student the same opportunity to succeed and excel.

We know that early reading affects achievement throughout school and beyond—well into college and career. Yet most literacy programs continue to fall short of supporting early literacy success. That’s why we’re so proud that CKLA is helping close the reading gap between students within diverse communities.

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Grades K–2: Supporting all learners

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Grades 3–5: Supporting all learners

Complete curriculum

A strong literacy program is not just about a reading program or an assessment tool: it brings together curriculum, instruction, regular practice, intervention, and assessments.

Amplify has brought these components together in our early literacy suite of curriculum, ensure that you have what you need for multi-tiered support.

 

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CKLA and mCLASS

CKLA connects to our comprehensive diagnostic universal screener called mCLASS.
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CKLA and Boost Reading

CKLA connects to our adaptive reading practice program called Boost Reading.
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CKLA and Language Studio

CKLA aligns with Language Studio–our ELD companion program for grades K–5.
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CKLA and Writing Studio

CKLA aligns with Writing Studio–our writing companion program for grades K–5.

Science of Reading Resources

Watching students learn to read: magic. Knowing how they get there: science.

As you consider your next core ELA program, it’s critically important to understand what the Science of Reading really means and what it tells us about how to teach more effectively. Unlike other programs, Amplify CKLA was built upon these insights and practices, making it easier for teachers to implement this proven approach.

Explore Science of Reading Handbook

Science of Reading Resources

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Welcome, Anoka-Hennepin Public Schools literacy review committee!

Thank you for taking the time to review Amplify’s high-quality instructional literacy resources. Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts® (CKLA K-2 and 3-5) is your students’  core literacy resource with explicit and systematic foundational skills and a rich knowledge-building curriculum. CKLA was developed with the Core Knowledge Foundation and designed to help teachers implement proven evidence-based instructional practices. CKLA is all green on EdReports–read the full review on EdReports.org.

Click here for correlations to the Minnesota Learning Standards.

Click here for a crosswalk between CKLA and LETRS.

Scroll down to access your review credentials and learn more about CKLA.

Explore CKLA K-5
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Ready to explore on your own? Follow the instructions below to access your demo account.

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Password: Amplify1-ah-ckla

Watch this video to help you navigate CKLA digital.

Idaho ELA Review for Grades 6-8

Amplify ELA is the only ELA curriculum that takes the Science of Reading to the next level.

Truly designed for students entering the middle grades, Amplify ELA engages and empowers learners, and addresses the very specific and unique needs of students in grades 6–8.

Scroll down to learn how ELA is uniquely designed to help all your Idaho middle schoolers make learning leaps in literacy.

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Meet Amplify ELA

Developed specifically for the needs of students entering the middle grades, Amplify ELA is a blended curriculum that promises:

  • A structured, yet flexible approach.
  • Carefully crafted, age-appropriate materials and activities that aren’t too “babyish” or too mature.
  • Complex, content-rich literature and informational texts that ensure ample opportunities for students to encounter both “windows and mirrors”.
  • Highly engaging lessons that keep adolescents plugged in and motivated to learn.
  • An instructional design that levels the playing field for every student.
  • Superior results.
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Program Guide

Learn more about key program features and how the program works.

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Program structure

Take a look at how ELA is structured and organized.

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Grade 6 Overview

Take a closer look at the units that make up our Grade 6 curriculum.

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Grade 7 Overview

Take a closer look at the units that make up our Grade 7 curriculum.

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Grade 8 Overview

Take a closer look at the units that make up our Grade 8 curriculum.

Access, engagement, and equity

In Amplify ELA, all students read the same text with the help of differentiated supports. In other words, we don’t dumb things down; we bring students up. Our robust collection of diverse texts and research-based approach to instruction not only engage students, but build confidence.

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Differentiated supports

Learn more about how Amplify ELA supports every student by providing six levels…

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Robust library

Learn more about the more than 650 classic and contemporary fiction and nonficti…

Novel Guides

Our novel guides provide teachers with flexible study guides for the books they…

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Newsela partnership

Amplify ELA has partnered with Newsela to bring the world into your classroom.

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Poetry in America

Our partnership with Poetry in America brings poets like Richard Blanco right to…

ELLs

With Amplify ELA’s integrated and designated ELD support, English language learners are given a chance to shine.

Embedded supports enable students to engage with and participate in discussion of grade-level texts with their grade-level peers.

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Integrated ELD

Learn more about the types of integrated support found in Amplify ELA.

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Designated ELD

Learn more about our designated ELD program that works alongside Amplify ELA.

Idaho Review Resources

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Access the ELA Teacher Digital Platform

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  • Click the ELA Teacher Platform button below.
  • Select Log in with Amplify.
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Welcome to Amplify ELA!

Welcome to the Amplify ELA review site for Arizona. This site is designed to help you learn about Amplify ELA—a core English Language Arts curriculum for Grades 6–8. Here are a few important documents so you can rest assured that Amplify ELA is aligned to Arizona’s English Language Arts standards.

Amplify ELA’s alignment to Arizona standards

Amplify ELA’s correlations to Arizona standards

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Overview Presentation

After watching the video to the right, scroll down to learn even more, download resources, and access a demo.

What is Amplify ELA?

Amplify ELA is a core program for grades 6–8 that delivers:

  • A unique research-based approach designed to get all students reading grade-level text together.
  • An instructional design that inspires students to read more deeply, write more vividly, and think more critically.
  • A rich combination of dynamic texts, lively discussions, and interactive Quests that truly engages middle schoolers and inspires them to participate in learning.

Interested in learning more about the research behind the program?

Click the link to access the Amplify ELA Research Hub.

All-green on EdReports

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Amplify ELA Program Guide

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Program effectiveness

How does it work?

Amplify ELA provides everything you need to deliver a full year’s worth of high-quality instruction.

Looking for a more flexible version of the curriculum? Check out our abridged lesson pathways ensure full coverage of the standards in just 100 days.

Grade 6: Program structure

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Grade 7: Program structure

Grade 8: Program structure

What do students explore?

Each grade level of Amplify ELA consists of six multimedia units. Four or five of the units are focused on complex literary texts and one or two are collections based on primary source documents and research. Each grade also provides two or three immersive learning experiences called Quests, a dedicated story writing unit, and a poetry unit.

Download the unit overviews below to learn more.

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Grade 6: Unit overviews

Grade 7: Unit overviews

Grade 8: Unit overviews

How does it engage all students?

Watching students mature into adolescents: inspiring. Knowing how to engage and motivate their changing brains: science.

The middle-school years are marked by a period of tremendous growth and change for students—physically, emotionally, and socially. Amplify ELA understands and embraces these changes, and delivers instruction specifically designed to tap into adolescents’ natural inclinations toward collaboration, exploration, and autonomy.

 

Amplify ELA Novel Guides
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Amplify ELA Library

Principles of engagement

Differentiation

Amplify believes all students are capable of reading grade-level text together.

Amplify ELA ensures all students have access to the same text. With six distinct levels of differentiation, your student is supported or challenged in a way that meets their unique needs. This includes ELLs at the Developing, Expanding, and Bridging levels, as well as students needing substantial support or an extra challenge.

 

Differentiation
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Differentiation for all students
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Support for Multilingual Learners

Differentiated Writing Prompts

Assessment

In Amplify ELA, all units include a robust system of embedded assessment that provides teachers with actionable student performance data long before end-of-unit or benchmark exams. The Embedded Assessment Measure (EAM) reports allow teachers to easily track and interpret student performance without ever interrupting the flow of daily instruction to test students.

Clear and actionable student performance data
With intelligent feedback tools and embedded assessments, Amplify ELA makes it easy to monitor student progress and intervene where needed—no matter where teaching and learning is taking place.

Automated Writing Assessment
Amplify’s Automated Writing Evaluation assesses student writing for Focus, Use of Evidence, and Conventions, providing critical feedback for teachers and data for Amplify’s writing reports.

Reporting
Amplify ELA Reporting provides teachers with clear data to understand patterns of student performance and deliver scaffolds and supports as students need them.

Click this link for more information on assessments in Amplify ELA.

Access demo

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Explore as a teacher

To access the teacher digital platform, first watch the quick navigation video to the right. Then login using the directions below.

  • Select Teacher
  • Select Get Started
  • Select the desired grade level once logged in.
Access ELA Learning Platform

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To access the student digital platform, follow the login directions below.

  • Select Student
  • Select Get Started
  • Select the desired grade level once logged in.
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LITERACY CHAMPIONS

The 2025 Science of Reading Star Awards

Making the shift to the Science of Reading is no small feat. Every day, educators like you are successfully improving student outcomes in their schools and communities, and we’re eager to celebrate your accomplishments with the Science of Reading Star Awards.

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Recognizing leaders in education

Imagine the spark in a child’s eye when letters and words on a page come alive. Learning to read is nothing short of a transformation—and at the heart of this transformation are literacy educators harnessing the Science of Reading to ignite lifelong learning.

Science of Reading Star Award winners shine bright, going above and beyond to light the path for students nationwide. Be part of this celebration—help us recognize these heroes!

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“This award is a testament to the collaborative efforts of our dedicated teachers, supportive staff, and engaged parents who have all played a crucial role in creating an environment where our students can thrive. It also reflects our commitment to continuous improvement and our belief in the transformative power of education.”

—Charles Beckley, Principal

Windber Elementary, Pennsylvania

An award category for everyone!

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District:
The District Captain

For the district that exemplifies strong Science of Reading practices across the board

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School:
The Literacy Legend

For the school that has seen significant reading gains among their students school-wide when using the Science of Reading

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Individual:
The Changemaker

For showcasing exemplary Science of Reading routines and practices, and serving as an inspiration to others on the journey

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Individual:
The Language Luminary

For outstanding success in developing the skills and strengths of multilingual/English learners.

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Individual:
The Background Knowledge Builder

For showing the world that the Science of Reading empowers students with knowledge, context, and vocabulary from elementary through middle school

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Individual:
The MTSS Maestro

For implementing a data-driven Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework that creates a thriving and robust literacy ecosystem

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Individual:
The Science of Reading Rookie

For a teacher in their first year of teaching, already making strides with the Science of Reading

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Individual: The
Cross-Disciplinarian

For skilled weaving of literacy practices across subject areas in the classroom

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Individual:
The Writing Whiz

For integrating writing instruction with the Science of Reading, cultivating articulate and confident writers through innovative and effective practices

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“My Star Award has become a hallmark of the hard work I have done in my district to support our push in the Science of Reading.”

—Javonna Mack, Lead Content Teacher

Caddo Parish Schools, Louisiana

Data’s essential role in your Science of Reading implementation

Support teachers and students in working toward literacy goals by leading with data as you shift to the Science of Reading. With tools like ongoing progress monitoring and a robust Multi-Tiered System of Supports, we’ll show you how data can give your students the literacy instruction they deserve.

Building buy-in for change—with data

You can use literacy data to harness buy-in for a paradigm shift, monitor student progress, and support your transition to the Science of Reading. But which data measures best identify areas for growth and reveal the path to student achievement?

Our free ebook, The Story That Data Tells, will help you take the first steps in using data to guide your journey toward impactful change..

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“I had to dig into and learn: What is [the Science of Reading] all about? How are we gonna be using this data instructionally, and then take that data and use it with our kids? So that’s really how we got the ball rolling.”

—Corey Beil, Interventionist and Instructional Coach

Quaker Community School District, Pennsylvania

Getting started with a data-driven literacy implementation

As any experienced educator can agree, change is not straightforward in the classroom. This is especially true when it comes to shifting to the Science of Reading, a process that requires meticulous planning, open communication, and—most importantly—data.

Discover which data to focus on throughout the school year, and how to use it to direct your implementation—whether you’re just starting the shift, or already implementing the Science of Reading.

Learn more

Align your MTSS to the Science of Reading

Learn more about MTSS in literacy principles and how to align it with the Science of Reading.

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The five guiding principles for an effective MTSS

To provide your students with literacy instruction that meets their needs, you need seamless planning and plenty of forethought. Deliver the instruction, assessment, and personalized learning your students deserve with a Multi-Tiered System of Supports grounded in data and the Science of Reading.

Read about the five guiding principles that can help you align your MTSS with the Science of Reading in our free ebook Systems of Success: Getting Started With a Multi-Tiered System of Supports Aligned to the Science of Reading.

Download the ebook

Review the five guiding principles

An effective MTSS framework requires collaboration from all stakeholders (such as teachers, administrators, and caregivers) to ensure students have access to the right instructional support at the right time.

Frequent collection and interpretation of high-quality data is essential to identifying student needs, monitoring progress, and guiding decision-making. Universal screening and progress monitoring data are used to evaluate the effectiveness of all tiers in an MTSS, and to identify students at risk.

An MTSS provides increasing levels of support for students when they need it. It also focuses on prevention first to reduce the need for intervention later.

Implementing evidence-based instruction and interventions with fidelity improves outcomes for all students. A focus on all students, not just those in need of additional support, ensures that all students can access high-quality instruction.

In an MTSS framework, decisions are based on research and the constantly evolving needs of all students and schools.

Season 5, Episode 5: Implementing Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports

Hear from educator Brittney Bills, Ed.D., as she discusses her districts’ experience learning to use data, avoid burnout, and sustain ongoing improvements.

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What Does Data Tell Us? Building Buy-In and Determining Areas of Need With Data

Data can paint a clear picture of where your students are, where they need to go, and how the Science of Reading can get them there. Hear from Amplify Executive Director of Learning Science Danielle Damico about the story that data tells, how to use data to build buy-in, and the kind of data you should be collecting to ensure a successful implementation.

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Starting Your Science of Reading Shift With Screening: How to Use Assessment Data as a Building Block of MTSS

Screening and assessment data can drive MTSS-aligned change management in your district, supporting you as you navigate and sustain lasting transformation. Learn more about the importance of universal screening in your literacy implementation.

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Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) se enorgullece de ofrecer Amplify Caminos, una auténtica solución de artes del lenguaje en español.
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Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) es un programa de artes del lenguaje para los grados PreK-5 que combina un enfoque multisensorial de la fonética con textos enriquecidos cuidadosamente secuenciados para desarrollar el conocimiento del contenido.
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Amplify ELA ayuda a los niños de 6.º a 8.º grado a leer y comprender textos complejos, animándolos a lidiar con ideas interesantes y encontrar relevancia para ellos mismos.
Dos personas manipulan símbolos matemáticos en una balanza mientras equilibran un conjunto de globos y pesas, ilustrando un concepto matemático en un entorno conceptual vibrante.

Amplify Desmos Math es un plan de estudios básico de matemáticas creado desde jardín de infantes hasta Álgebra 1.
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Amplify Science es un plan de estudios atractivo para los grados K-8 diseñado por expertos del Lawrence Hall of Science de UC Berkeley.

Boost Lectura es un programa basado en la Ciencia de la Lectura creado para acelerar la alfabetización en español para estudiantes de K-2. Leer más.
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Boost Reading le brinda a su hijo la oportunidad de aprender y practicar habilidades de alfabetización dentro de un mundo de historias atractivo que se adapta a cada estudiante a medida que avanza en el programa.
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mCLASS es un sistema de evaluación e instrucción que ayuda a medir el desarrollo de alfabetización y matemáticas de su hijo. Ayuda a determinar dónde se encuentra su hijo en su viaje de lectura y matemáticas. Leer más.
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mCLASS® Lectura es un evaluador universal para K-6 que ayuda a los educadores a acelerar el crecimiento en lectura de los estudiantes de habla hispana. Leer más.

Amplify Tutoring ofrece programas de tutoría de alto impacto alineados con ESSA para complementar los esfuerzos de los estudiantes, educadores y familias de K-6 para desarrollar la competencia y la confianza en la lectura.

Be a changemaker for science.

Profound science learning experiences have the power to transcend classroom walls—cultivating students’ curiosity, fostering critical thinking and creativity, building knowledge about the real world, and supporting students on their pathway to college and beyond. Unfortunately, science continues to fight for sufficient instructional time and resources.

The good news? Intentional shifts, combined with evidence-based practices and effective high-quality instructional materials, can help teachers make the most of the time they do have—transforming students into concerned global citizens ready to take on the world.

Science instruction designed for all students

K–8 science instruction is the crucial foundation that prepares students for high school learning. Our change management playbook details manageable and realistic changes to your process and practice that will make your K–8 instruction even more powerful.

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Establishing high-quality teaching and learning

Access to high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) is a vital piece of the change management puzzle. Support the leaders who are on a mission to identify HQIM and set up the best possible conditions for implementation success.

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Connecting science and literacy

Want to make every instructional moment count? Integrate science and literacy more deeply—and witness the transformation in student learning. Find out how with this resource pack.

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The foundation for long-lasting and sustainable change

Change is more likely to stick and get results when you take a systemic approach. Partner with us to do just that by developing a learning plan that will drive your program implementation, enrich your instructional practices, and increase student impact. Amplify’s high-quality programs make it easier for you to teach inspiring, impactful lessons that celebrate and develop the brilliance of your students.

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Science free resource library

Find free K–8 activities, posters, and guides to engage all students in science.

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2024 Science Symposium

Access best practices and tips from science leaders through our on-demand Science Symposium.

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Science Connections archives

Hear more strategies from educator Eric Cross and other experts in this podcast.

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Ready to champion science in your school? We’re here to help!

Connect with our Amplify Science experts to see how we can help create change in your school or district.

Tap into your Arkansas math students’ curiosity and brilliance.

As a math teacher, you work every day to celebrate student brilliance, build deep conceptual understanding, and create the conditions for every student to be successful.

We’re here to help.

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Desmos Classroom

Grades 3+

Free

A teaching and learning platform offering a collection of free digital lessons and lesson building tools

  • Teachers can build their own lessons using the Activity Builder tool
  • Teachers can explore lessons including:
    • Library of user created lessons
    • Featured Collection lessons authored by the Desmos Classroom team

Learn more at teacher.desmos.com

Desmos Math 6–A1

Grades 6–8, Algebra 1

Paid

A year-long, blended middle school math curriculum delivered through the Desmos Classroom platform

  • A rigorous curriculum based on Illustrative Mathematics® IM K–12™, authored by the Desmos Classroom team
  • Grades 6–8 courses rated perfect scores on EdReports (Algebra 1 not yet reviewed)
  • Pre-made, fully customizable lessons, available in English and Spanish
  • Powerful facilitation tools to allow for real-time insight and feedback

Learn more amplify.com/desmosmath

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Amplify Desmos Math

Grades K–Algebra 2

Paid

Coming Soon: A new core PreK–12 program from Amplify and Desmos Classroom

  • The power of Desmos Classroom technology and instruction with additional easy-to-use print and digital components
  • Based on Illustrative Mathematics® IM K–12™
  • Aligned to standards
  • Available in English and Spanish
  • K–A1 pilots available back-to-school 2024

A new core PreK–12 program from Amplify and Desmos Classroom

Amplify Desmos Math taps into students’ natural curiosity from the start of every lesson. When students are presented with age-appropriate, interactive, social learning experiences, spaces open up for creative thinking in which they can fully engage with interesting and important math ideas.

Key features of Amplify Desmos Math:

  • Interactive, 45-minute lessons in print and online based on Illustrative Mathematics® IM K–12™
  • Powerful facilitation tools at point-of-use in the lesson, including:
    • Teacher dashboard, providing real-time insights into student thinking
    • Sharing student work features to highlight student thinking
    • Classroom conversation toolkit to facilitate productive classroom discussions
  • Differentiation, including just-in-time prerequisite supports
  • Instructional and language development routines
  • Assessment customization
  • Reporting

Expect more from your math program.

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For students

Every student feels connected and a part of the conversation when participating in an Amplify Desmos Math lesson. And when students are actively engaged with the content, they achieve more.

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For teachers

The program delivers what math educators want and need, including:

  • Standards-aligned print and digital lessons that capture students’ interest every day.
  • The right mix of informal and more substantive diagnostic and summative assessments.
  • Differentiation support
  • Additional practice sets
  • Spanish language supports
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For leaders

The program delivers what school and district leaders want and need, including:

  • A coherent core program based on the industry-leading IM K–12 Math™ by Illustrative Mathematics®.
  • A comprehensive suite of usage and performance reports that gives educators a better sense of which students might be at risk of falling behind.
  • A team from Amplify dedicated to making your implementation a success.

What’s included

We’ve taken the power of Desmos’ technology and lessons and added beautiful, easy-to-use print and digital components to make a game-changing program that makes teaching a breeze.

  • Student Editions (two volumes)
  • Digital lessons, practice, assessment, and differentiation, built with Desmos technology
  • Teacher Edition
  • Digital tools and support
  • Classroom monitoring and management
  • Reporting
  • Assessment customization
  • Differentiation, including just-in-time prerequisite supports and mini-lessons
  • Additional practice and Assessment blackline masters (print and digital)

Ready to learn more?

Speak to a representative to find out how to be among the first to preview Amplify Desmos Math.

Stay up-to-date on the latest Amplify Desmos Math and Desmos Classroom news.

Digital lessons should be powerful in their ability to surface student thinking and spark interesting and productive discussions. Sign up to learn more about how Amplify Desmos Math and Desmos Classroom bring all students into the math conversation.

The Math Teacher Lounge is open!

Amplify presents the Math Teacher Lounge, a podcast with hosts Bethany Lockhart Johnson and Dan Meyer.

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Bring the world to students with a proven PreK–5 literacy curriculum

Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) is the leading early literacy curriculum grounded in the Science of Reading. By combining knowledge-building and research-based foundational skills, our instruction guides educators in developing strong readers, writers, and thinkers.

With a powerful online platform and a parallel Spanish language arts curriculum, Amplify CKLA provides a comprehensive solution for PreK–5 educators and students. Para la versión en español, haga clic aquí.

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Background knowledge drives results

The Amplify CKLA PreK–5 literacy curriculum equips students with rich knowledge that intentionally builds to inspire curiosity and drive results. Explore research revealing the power of our knowledge-based curriculum including a study that meets qualifications for ESSA Tier I: Strong Evidence.

Amplify CKLA serves

38,000+

Classrooms

2,700,000+

Students

50

U.S. States and D.C.

Independently and rigorously reviewed

Amplify CKLA is among the few curricula that is both recognized by the Knowledge Matters Campaign—for its excellence in intentionally building knowledge—and rated all-green on EdReports, earning green scores across all gateways.


Read the review on EdReports

Our approach

Grounded in the Science of Reading and following the Core Knowledge approach, the Amplify CKLA PreK–5 curriculum combines rich content knowledge in history, science, literature, and the arts with systematic, research-based foundational skills instruction.

Grounded in the Science of Reading

As the first publisher to build a curriculum based on the Science of Reading, we put research into action with explicit systematic foundational skills instruction alongside a proven knowledge-building sequence. In collaboration with education experts and practitioners, we provide powerful resources that drive real results. Explore our Science of Reading success stories.

Developing foundational skills with explicit, systematic instruction

Amplify CKLA’s research-based scope and sequence progresses from simple to more complex skill development, starting with phonological and phonemic awareness. Instruction guides you in explicitly teaching the 150 spellings for the 44 sounds of English, with an intentional progression and review of skills to set your students up for success.

Following a proven knowledge-building approach

Following the Core Knowledge Sequence–a content-specific, cumulative, and coherent approach to building knowledge–students dig deeper and make connections across content areas to build a robust knowledge base for comprehending complex texts. See how the Core Knowledge curriculum is proven to improve reading scores and eliminate achievement gaps.

Built in partnership with the Core Knowledge Foundation

Amplify CKLA is the premier high-quality instructional materials offering for elementary language arts, built in partnership with the Core Knowledge Foundation to help students effectively develop deep content knowledge and foundational skills.

Learn more about the Core Knowledge Foundation

Cultivating biliteracy with parallel English and Spanish programs

Amplify Caminos is the perfect Spanish language arts partner to Amplify CKLA. The aligned programs combine rich content knowledge with systematic foundational skills instruction grounded in the Science of Reading that follows biliteracy principles, and supports multiple teaching models.

Learn more about Amplify Caminos

Amplify CKLA efficacy study

Tier I ESSA Evidence: Amplify CKLA knowledge-building improves achievement.

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What’s included

The program provides engaging print and multimedia materials designed to build a robust literacy-rich foundation in every classroom.

CoreELD and companions

High-quality teacher materials

Amplify CKLA teachers effectively deliver instruction with print and digital resources, including:

  • Teacher Guides with embedded differentiation.
  • Formal and informal assessments.
  • Ready-made and customizable lesson slides.
  • Trade books and Novel Guides.
  • Teacher resources and on-demand professional development.

Immersive student resources

Amplify CKLA students stay engaged with a variety of print and digital resources, including:

  • Original decodables and read-aloud Big Books (K–2), Student Readers (3–5), and trade books (K–5).
  • Student Activity Books with embedded assessments (K–5).
  • Research units for independent research built around a trade book (K–5).
  • Poet’s Journal and Writer’s Journal (write-in student readers for Grades 4–5).
  • Quests for the Core to support immersive, problem-based learning in Grades 3–5.

Hands-on phonics materials

Multisensory phonics and foundational skills resources help students practice key skills using fun, varied approaches that build independence.

  • Chaining Folder (K)
  • Letter Cards (K–2)
  • Syllable Cards (K–2)
  • Image Cards (K–3)
  • Blending Picture Cards (K)
  • Consonant and Vowel Code Flip Books (1–2)
  • Exclusive digital Sound Library

Robust digital experience

Amplify CKLA teacher and student resources are available through a digital experience platform that enhances instruction and saves you time. With everything you need in one place, you can effectively plan lessons, present content, and review student work.

  • Real-time program support via email, live chat, and phone
  • Ready-made yet customizable lesson presentation slide decks
  • Dynamic live-review student tool
  • Interactive and student-friendly experience
  • LMS integration
  • Knowledge Builder animated videos
  • Recorded Read-Alouds
  • Professional development website

English Language Learner program

Language Studio, designed for Amplify CKLA, provides WIDA-aligned daily instruction for English Language Learners to deepen their academic English.

Writing explorations program

A unique companion for Amplify CKLA, Writing Studio provides a deep dive into informational, narrative, and opinion writing to build strong, passionate writers.

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Explore more programs based on the Science of Reading

All of the programs in our literacy suite are designed to support and complement each other. Learn more about our related programs:

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Boost Reading

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Amplify is excited to introduce Amplify Desmos Math Texas!

We’re hard at work building a new K–5 math program for Texas. In the meantime, explore some of our free Desmos Classroom activities to get a feel for what’s to come for Texas!

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Experience an Amplify Desmos Math Texas lesson

View our previously recorded Live Lesson webinars to see Amplify Desmos Math Texas in action!

Math that motivates

Picture a classroom where students are so eagerly engaged in a lesson, they wish it wouldn’t end. The room is buzzing with the sounds of natural curiosity. This is what an Amplify Desmos Math Texas classroom looks and sounds like. This is math that motivates.

A structured approach to problem-based learning

Amplify Desmos Math Texas combines and connects conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application. Lessons are designed with the Proficiency Progression™, a model that provides teachers with clear instructional moves to build from students’ prior knowledge to grade-level learning.

A powerful suite of math resources

Amplify Desmos Math Texas combines the best of problem-based lessons, intervention, personalized practice, and assessments into a coherent and engaging experience for both students and teachers.

Data informs instruction. Comprehensive student profiles provide full data on students’ assets and skills, empowering teachers to provide just-in-time scaffolds throughout core instruction and targeted intervention when needed.

Student thinking is valuable and can be made evident.

We believe that math class is a place where teachers can elicit, celebrate, and build on their students’ interesting ideas. Those ideas fuel meaningful classroom conversations and drive the learning process.

Robust assessments that drive learning and inform instruction

A variety of performance data in Amplify Desmos Math provides evidence of student learning, while helping students bolster their skills. With explicit guidance on what to look for and how to respond, teachers can effectively support students as they develop their understanding.

Diagnostic screening and progress monitoring assessments identify what students know and can do.

Integrated mCLASS® Assessments go beyond accuracy to reveal students’ math thinking through an asset-based approach. This data provides better insights about what students know, what math assets to leverage, and where students need support.

Amplify Desmos Math Reporting and insights

Teachers and administrators have visibility into what students know about grade-level math with a variety of data reports. By evaluating not only what students know about grade-level math but also providing insight into how they think, teachers can confidently plan whole-class instruction and targeted intervention.

Access to grade-level math for every student, every day

Amplify Desmos Math provides teachers with lessons, strategies, and resources to eliminate barriers and increase access to grade-level content without reducing the mathematical demand of tasks.

Differentiation when and where it matters most

Teachers are provided with clear student actions to look for, matched with immediately usable suggestions for how to respond to student thinking. Each lesson also includes recommendations for resources to use with students to support, strengthen, and stretch their understanding of the lesson goal.

Boost Personalized Learning

Boost Personalized Learning™ activities in Amplify Desmos Math Texas target a skill or concept aligned to the day’s core lesson, with each student receiving personalized scaffolds based on what they already know. Activities adapt to each student’s unique needs.

Intervention Mini-Lessons aligned to core instruction

Amplify Desmos Math Texas Mini-Lessons are aligned to the most critical topics throughout a unit and provide targeted intervention for small groups of students who need additional support or need more time.

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Science of Reading resources hub

The Science of Reading is complex, so your understanding of it should be, too. That’s why our resource pages break it all down for you, from word recognition and comprehension to dyslexia and Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports. Equip yourself with the knowledge you need to make the greatest difference to your students!

Select a resource:

Amplify’s Science of Reading overview

Learn the ins and outs of the Science of Reading—what it means, and why its principles matter.

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Science of Reading FAQ

Get early literacy guidance with our Science of Reading FAQ.

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Science of Reading: The Podcast

Listen to the latest insights from researchers and practitioners in early reading.

LEARN MORE 

Science of Reading programs

Achieve next-level literacy growth with a cohesive Science of Reading suite.

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Science of Reading success stories

We’ve helped thousands of Science of Reading champions make the shift, and they’re eager to share the secrets of their long-term success with fellow educators like you.

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Science of Reading webinars

Get on-demand professional development to build and refine your toolkit of Science of Reading resources and instructional practices.

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Science of Reading Star Awards

Nominate a literacy changemaker for our prestigious Science of Reading Star Awards!

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Science of Reading data and MTSS

Fortify your Science of Reading implementation using essential data and a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS).

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Change management

Educational change doesn’t happen overnight, or by itself. We’ll walk you through the process to help you make literacy success a lasting reality in your classroom.

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Knowledge building

Learn the ins and outs of the Science of Reading—what it means, and why its principles matter.

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Dyslexia and the Science of Reading

Discover how assessment and instruction grounded in the Science of Reading helps identify children at risk of developing dyslexia at the earliest possible moments, creating the widest opportunity for intervention.

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Science of Reading professional development course

Learn everything you need to know about Science of Reading instruction with Amplify’s Chief Academic Officer and host of Science of Reading: The Podcast Susan Lambert.

ENROLL NOW 

The Science of Writing

Explore the Science of Writing, and how you can use it with the Science of Reading to unlock life-changing literacy outcomes.

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Unlock possibility with the Science of Writing

The reality is…writing is hard. It’s hard to learn, it’s hard to teach, it’s hard to do.

Natalie Wexler, author of The Knowledge Gap and The Writing Revolution, says, “Writing is the hardest thing we ask students to do.” Fortunately, we have decades of research that shows us how best to teach and learn how to write, known as the Science of Writing. As an educator your job is to make this hard task easier and more fulfilling for students. And our job is to help you.

Why writing matters: Connection, expression, and better reading comprehension

Without writing, there would be no need for reading, and of course, writing is a part of literacy.

Through writing, students can express their ideas, connect with others, and deepen and communicate their understanding of what they are reading and thinking.

Having strong writing skills ensures students can engage fully in all settings, share their opinions and information, tell stories, and have a voice.

What is the Science of Writing?

Learning to write (and read) isn’t natural but it can be taught—and research shows us how. Like the Science of Reading, the Science of Writing is the collection of research and evidence-based practices that explains how writing develops along with the teaching strategies that help students develop into skilled writers.

Writing proficiency involves mastering the use of a complex set of skills that must be taught explicitly, again just like reading proficiency. The Simple View of Writing breaks down these processes into transcription and composition, and provides us with a framework for guiding instruction.

Download Science of Writing: A Primer

The relationship between reading and writing

Reading and writing reinforce and support each other. When reading, students are exposed to vocabulary, grammar, and syntax. And when writing, students can get more practice to improve the fluency and efficiency of their handwriting, and apply their knowledge of spelling and their understanding of vocabulary, grammar, and syntax.

Readers use comprehension skills such as summarizing, predicting, and making inferences to help them create meaning as they read. Writers use those same skills to develop a piece of writing that is clear and concise for the reader.

The benefits of applying reading skills and strategies when writing

  • If you teach students decoding skills, then they become better spellers.
  • If students learn strategies for planning, drafting, and revising during composition, then their reading comprehension improves.
  • If students have word and vocabulary knowledge, then they’re better at expressing their ideas in writing.
“Steve Graham and Michael Hebert (2010) carried out a meta-analysis of more than 100 studies in which students wrote about text. They found that writing in various ways about what one had read improved comprehension and learning, and it did so better than reading alone, reading and rereading, or reading and discussing.”

—Tim Shanahan, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC); Literacy researcher and writer

Oral language and writing

Oral language is the foundation for literacy, and its development begins in infancy. As their oral language develops, children learn how to string words into phrases and sentences, which progresses into telling stories and answering questions in detail. And as they listen to stories, children develop vocabulary and understanding of syntax and grammar. All of these build a foundation for writing.

Learn more about oral language and literacy

Discovering the Science of Writing

Explore helpful resources to learn more about the Science of Writing, and the importance of implementing evidence-based instructional practices into your classroom, school, and district.

Books:

Articles:

Webinars:

Podcast episodes:

Writing your way to better reading with Steve Graham, Science of Reading: The Podcast

Knowledge, reading, and writing ebook

Read our ebook to explore the links between knowledge, reading, and writing.

K–5 writing instruction brochure

Explore how to integrate writing and reading instruction for your K–5 students.

Multilingual learners writing ebook

Offer your multilingual learners writing instruction tailored to their needs.

Are you ready to transform your district with the Science of Reading and Writing?

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You’re invited to New Fellows Orientation 2025

Get ready for an unforgettable New Fellows Orientation event in Dallas, Texas! Come join a community of math enthusiasts (yes, that’s you!) and immerse yourself in an exciting journey of professional learning, jam-packed with enriching collaboration, thoughtful mentorship, new friends, and a whole lot more.

About the event

This interactive retreat for new Desmos Classroom Fellows will be held at the Fairmont Dallas Hotel July 15–17.

During the New Fellows Orientation, you will:

  • Engage in professional learning experiences led by Desmos Classroom experts.
  • Get early access to our best ideas and technology.
  • Share how you are supporting students with and without technology.
  • Collaborate with other Desmos Classroom Fellows to create a resource to share with other teachers.
  • Receive a certificate of attendance.
  • Leave with new perspectives, friends, and goals for the upcoming school year.

Logistics:

Please plan to arrive for the meeting by noon on Tuesday, July 15.

Participants will be provided lunch and dinner on July 15 and all meals on July 16. Attendees may depart on Thursday, July 17.

Lodging costs for July 15 and July 16 at the on-site hotel will be covered by Amplify. Travel costs are the responsibility of each attendee.

Register for New Fellows Orientation

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Transform literacy in Indiana with intentional knowledge building and systematic skills instruction

Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) is a core literacy resource aligned with the Indiana Academic Standards for English/Language Arts that empowers Indiana grades K–5 students. Developed in partnership with the Core Knowledge Foundation, Amplify CKLA was specifically designed to enable teachers to implement proven, evidence-based instructional practices.

Looking for core instruction for Grades 6–8? Click here.

Recognized quality

Amplify CKLA stands out as one of only a few high-quality, knowledge-building literacy programs recognized by the Knowledge Matters Campaign. Our shared message: Background knowledge is essential to literacy and learning.

Independently and rigorously reviewed

Amplify CKLA not only received an all-green rating from the rigorous evaluators at EdReports, but it was also recognized by the Knowledge Matters Campaign as a literacy program that excels in building knowledge.

Read our EdReports review

Read our Knowledge Matters Campaign review

Intentional knowledge building

The Science of Reading reveals knowledge as an essential pillar of reading comprehension and lifelong literacy. Hear from author Natalie Wexler and Amplify CKLA customers on edWebinar about the importance of knowledge building in reading instruction.

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Program overview

Amplify CKLA is a core ELA program for Grades K–5 that delivers:

  • A unique research-based approach truly built on the Science of Reading.
  • A combination of explicit foundational skills with meaningful knowledge building.
  • Embedded support and differentiation that gets all students reading grade-level texts together.
  • Opportunities for students to see the strengths and experiences that all people share while also celebrating each others’ unique identities and experiences.
  • Authentic Spanish language arts instruction with Amplify Caminos.

How it works

Amplify CKLA teaches both foundational skills and background knowledge in Grades K–2 and combines them in Grades 3–5, in alignment with the Science of Reading.

  • In grades K–2, students complete one full lesson that builds foundational reading skills, as well as one full lesson that builds background knowledge.
  • In grades 3–5, students complete one integrated lesson that combines skills and knowledge with increasingly complex texts, close reading, and a greater writing emphasis.
Program Guide

Rich topics

Amplify CKLA builds knowledge coherently across subjects and grades.

Students make connections from year to year by exploring grade-appropriate subject-area knowledge and vocabulary in history, science, literature, and the arts, while learning to read, write, and think creatively and for themselves.

Units by grade

Take a closer look at the topics students explore.

Knowledge Research Units

Explore our newly added Knowledge Research units.

Skills by grade

Take a closer look at the skills students develop.

Science of Reading resources

Watching students learn to read? Magic. Knowing how they get there? Science.

As you consider your next core ELA program, it’s critically important to understand what the Science of Reading really means—and what it tells us what it tells us about how to teach more effectively. Unlike other programs, Amplify CKLA was built upon these insights and practices, making it easier for teachers to implement this proven approach.

Explore resources

Indiana CKLA resources for your review

Contact us

Support is always available. Our team is dedicated to helping you every step of the way. Contact your dedicated Indiana representative here for program access, samples, and additional information.

Elizabeth Sillies Callahan
Southern IN
(513) 407-5801

Janet Barry
West/Northwest IN
(630) 777-6923

John Lash
East/Northeast IN
(260) 318-5729

Paige Lawrence
District enrollment below 1200
(980) 421-2608

Welcome Indiana literacy educators!

Amplify ELA is built specifically for the needs of middle school teachers and students. This blended curriculum is designed to help teachers implement the Indiana Academic Standards for ELA by delivering a structured yet flexible instructional approach grounded in the Science of Reading.

Looking for core instruction for Grades K–5? Click here.

Designed to prepare Indiana middle schoolers for high school and beyond

After watching the Amplify ELA 6–8 video to the left, scroll down to learn even more, download resources, and access a demo.

What is ELA?

Amplify ELA is a core program for Grades 6–8 that delivers:

  • A unique, research-based approach designed to get all students reading grade-level text together.
  • An instructional design that inspires students to read more deeply, write more vividly, and think more critically.
  • A rich combination of dynamic texts, lively discussions, and interactive Quests that truly engages middle schoolers and inspires them to participate in learning.

Rated all green on EdReports

Program effectiveness

How ELA works

Amplify ELA lessons follow a structure that’s grounded in regular routines, yet flexible enough to allow for a variety of learning experiences. You can find more information in our ELA Program Guide.

What students explore

Amplify ELA provides everything you need to deliver a full year’s worth of instruction.

Each grade level of Amplify ELA consists of six multimedia units. Four or five of the units are focused on complex literary texts and one or two are collections based on primary source documents and research. Each grade also provides a dedicated story-writing unit, a poetry unit, and two or three immersive learning experiences called Quests.

Download the Unit Overview and explore a model lesson below to learn more.

Unit Overviews

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Science of Reading

Watching students mature into adolescents? Inspiring. Knowing how to engage and motivate their changing brains? Science.

The middle school years are marked by a period of tremendous growth and change—physically, emotionally, and socially. Amplify ELA understands and embraces these changes, and delivers instruction specifically designed to tap into adolescents’ natural inclinations toward collaboration, exploration, and autonomy.

Principles of engagement

See yourself in Amplify ELA

Differentiation

We believe all students are capable of reading grade-level text together.

Amplify ELA ensures all students have access to the same text. With six distinct levels of differentiation, every student is supported or challenged in a way that meets their unique needs. This includes English learners at the Developing, Expanding, and Bridging levels, as well as students needing substantial support or an extra challenge.

Differentiation for all students

Support for ELLs

Amplify Library

Assessment

Amplify ELA not only includes captivating content, but also provides clear and actionable measurement data about student performance.

Our embedded formative and summative assessment tools maximize teaching time, while allowing teachers to make confident, data-driven decisions about the instruction and support students need to grow continually as readers and writers.

Formative and summative assessments…

Administrator reports

Indiana ELA resources to support your review

Get access

Ready to explore as a teacher? Follow these instructions:

  • Visit learning.amplify.com.
  • Select Log in with Amplify.
  • Enter your provided teacher username and password.
  • Select ELA.

Ready to explore as a student? Follow these instructions:

  • Visit learning.amplify.com.
  • Select Log in with Amplify.
  • Enter your provided student username and password.
  • Select ELA.

Contact us

Support is always available. Our team is dedicated to helping you every step of the way. Contact your dedicated Indiana representative here for program access, samples, and additional information.

Elizabeth Sillies Callahan
Southern IN
(513) 407-5801

Janet Barry
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Welcome, Florida middle school educators!

Amplify ELA Florida is the program built for Florida middle school teachers and students. We designed the program to help ensure the B.E.S.T standards are covered; the skills are taught; the test is prepped for; and your students are scaffolded and encouraged. We want you to spend your time bringing the text to life, making the classroom hum, and letting every student know you are paying attention to their growth.

Amplify ELA Florida Program Guide

Instruction matters

Florida’s new standards have been crafted to give your students the B.E.S.T. Amplify ELA Florida’s lessons explore the most compelling aspect of a text and target the standards that best support that analysis through reading, writing, and communication. These key standards are identified as the lesson’s Spotlight benchmark.  Strategic connections are attained in the program through:

  • Florida model texts including rich literature and compelling non-fiction, taught in engaging new ways for today’s learners.
  • Benchmark stacks that build connections within lessons and across units.
  • Writing that builds directly from reading complex text and is evaluated by Amplify’s Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE).
  • Reading with the B.E.S.T. Modules have been built to guide teachers and students as they begin to work with Florida’s new reading standards, providing an introduction to each grade-level B.E.S.T. Reading Benchmark.
    (Example module: Grade 6, Understanding Rhetoric)

Knowledge matters

Texts in the Amplify ELA Florida Edition curriculum cover a wide range of topics, themes, and genres with differentiated supports that ensure that all students can work through each reading and lesson. Taken as a whole, the texts show students a diverse picture of the world and help foster a lifelong love of reading. Comprehension develops as students engage with literary and informational text selections that are complex, rich, and meaningful. 

Texts were selected for Amplify ELA Florida Edition using the following criteria: 

  • Text complexity as defined by qualitative, quantitative, and reader and task measurements as required by the B.E.S.T. Standards and the Amplify Text Complexity Index
  • Balance of literary and informational texts
  • Varied representation of genres: novels, plays, poetry, biographies, and other full-length texts
  • Diverse cultures, perspectives, and authors
  • Engaging texts that extend learning and support students as they build knowledge
  • Grade-appropriate texts, with scaffolding and compelling activities to support student engagement with 100% authentic texts
  • A library with more than 700 complete books, both classic and contemporary, encompassing a wide range of genres, topics, and cultural perspectives

Curriculum matters

Amplify ELA Florida is a blended curriculum designed specifically for grades 6–8. The heart of every lesson is the text. Each grade includes six units centered on literary or informational texts, delivered in several forms of media. Your classroom will also benefit from two or three immersive, project-based experiences and a dedicated Story Writing unit.

  • Full B.E.S.T. coverage: Standards are clearly labeled in each lesson, so teachers can save time planning and get back to what they love: teaching. Also included are Benchmark Modules that support teachers’ and students’ introduction to the new standards for Florida.
  • Five levels of differentiation: Based on each student’s needs and the performance measures within Amplify ELA reports, a teacher can choose the differentiation level that’s the right fit for everyone.
  • Embedded Assessments: Teachers benefit from uninterrupted instructional time and a continuously updated picture of each student’s progress with key skills and standards.
  • Powerful feedback tools: Comprehensive tools help teachers maximize both the quantity and quality of feedback.
  • Robust reporting: Our reporting app offers information on student progress to help inform instructional decisions.

All in one place: Embedded teacher support, differentiation tools, student data, text, and other curriculum features—they’re all right there.

Materials

Amplify ELA Florida Edition is a blended curriculum that seamlessly integrates print and digital resources to be used in any learning environment. The resources are designed to facilitate instruction for planning, teaching, learning, and assessment.

Student materials

Available digitally and in print, the student materials guide middle schoolers through complex texts and writing with the following:

  • Student Edition will engage students with high-quality narrative and informational texts.
  • Digital experience will provide videos, a library of more than 700 texts, audio supports, and other online experiences that capture their attention.

Poetry in America videos

 Amplify ELA Florida has rich digital experiences that students to read, think, and write like authors. Our  “Poetry in America” videos include interpretations by Shaquille O’Neal, Angela Duckworth, Regina Spektor,  Shiza Shahid, Anson Dorrance, Elizabeth Alexander, Duy Doan, and Richard Blanco.


To the left, Richard Blanco reads his poem “Looking for the Gulf Motel.”

Teacher materials

Available digitally and in print, the Teacher Edition contains all of the information teachers need to facilitate classroom instruction, including:

  • From detailed lesson plans.
  • Video teacher tips embedded in the lesson.
  • B.E.S.T. standards alignment and assessments including exit tickets.
  • Real-time differentiation strategies.
  • Clarify and Compare lessons.

Professional learning

Amplify employs a national cohort of more than 50 ELA facilitators, all of whom have experience as former classroom teachers and many of whom are former school and/or district leaders. Our professional learning team has decades of experience working with large districts across the nation. Amplify has experience supporting district launches over multiple years and has partnered with districts of all sizes nationwide. We partner deeply with districts and tailor professional learning to their unique needs.

Florida ELA Implementation 

Florida Review Resources

Florida Program Guide

Literature for Florida

Lleve el mundo a los estudiantes con un plan de estudios de alfabetización comprobado de PreK a 5.º grado

Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) es el plan de estudios líder en alfabetización temprana basado en la Ciencia de la lectura. Mediante la combinación del desarrollo de conocimientos y de destrezas fundamentales a partir de la investigación, nuestra instrucción orienta a los educadores en el desarrollo de lectores, escritores y pensadores capaces.
Con una poderosa plataforma en línea y un plan de estudios paralelo de lengua y literatura en español, Amplify CKLA ofrece una solución integral para educadores y estudiantes de PreK a 5.º grado. For English version, please click here.

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Los resultados son fruto del conocimiento previo

El plan de estudios de alfabetización de Amplify CKLA de PreK a 5.º grado equipa a los estudiantes con un rico conocimiento que se construye intencionalmente para inspirar curiosidad e impulsar resultados. Explore las investigaciónes que revelan la eficacia del plan de estudios basado en el conocimiento, así como el logro de Amplify CKLA como intervención educativa de conformidad con la ESSA (nivel 1 de evidencia fuerte).

AMPLIFY CKLA

38,000+

Salones de clase

2,700,000+

Estudiantes

50

Estados de EE. UU. y D.C.

Revisado de forma independiente y rigurosa

Amplify CKLA se encuentra entre los pocos planes de estudio que es tanto reconocido por la campaña Knowledge Matters (por su excelencia en construir conocimiento intencionalmente) y como calificado verde en EdReports, obteniendo puntuaciones verdes en todos los criterios.

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Nuestro enfoque

Basado en la Ciencia de la lectura y siguiendo el principio de Core Knowledge, el plan de estudios Amplify CKLA para PreK a 5.º grado combina conocimientos de contenido rico en historia, ciencias, literatura y artes con una instrucción sistemática de destrezas fundamentales basada en la investigación.

Basado en la Ciencia de la lectura

Como la primera casa editorial en crear un plan de estudios basado en la Ciencia de la lectura, ponemos la investigación en acción con una instrucción explícita y sistemática de destrezas fundamentales junto con una secuencia comprobada de construcción de conocimientos. En colaboración con expertos y profesionales de la educación, proporcionamos recursos poderosos que generan resultados reales. Explore nuestras historias de éxito de Ciencia de la lectura.

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Desarrolla destrezas fundamentales con instrucción explícita y sistemática

El alcance y la secuencia basados en la investigación de Amplify CKLA progresan desde el desarrollo de destrezas simples hasta el más complejo, comenzando con la conciencia fonológica y fonémica. La instrucción le guía en la enseñanza explícita de las 150 ortografías de los 44 sonidos del inglés, con una progresión intencional y una revisión de las destrezas para preparar a sus estudiantes para el éxito.

Adopta una metodología demostrada de adquisición de conocimientos

Siguiendo la Core Knowledge Sequence, un enfoque coherente, acumulativo y de contenido específico para desarrollar conocimientos, los estudiantes profundizan y hacen conexiones entre áreas de contenido para construir una base de conocimientos sólida que les permita comprender textos complejos. Vea cómo se ha demostrado que el plan de estudios Core Knowledge mejora los puntajes de lectura y elimina las brechas en el rendimiento.

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Creado en colaboración con la Core Knowledge Foundation

Amplify CKLA es el líder en materiales educativos de alta calidad para lengua y literatura de primaria, creado en colaboración con la Core Knowledge Foundation para ayudar a los estudiantes a desarrollar con eficacia un conocimiento profundo del contenido y destrezas fundamentales.

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Cultivar la alfabetización bilingüe con programas paralelos en inglés y español

Amplify Caminos es el compañero perfecto en lengua y literatura del idioma español para Amplify CKLA. Los programas alineados combinan un rico conocimiento del contenido con una instrucción sistemática de destrezas fundamentales basada en la Ciencia de la lectura que sigue los principios de alfabetización bilingüe, y respalda múltiples modelos de enseñanza.

CONOCER MÁS SOBRE AMPLIFY CAMINOS

Estudio de eficacia de Amplify CKLA

Evidencia de conformidad con la ESSA (nivel 1): la adquisición de conocimientos con Amplify CKLA mejora los logros.

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Qué se incluye

El programa proporciona atractivos materiales impresos y multimedia diseñados para construir una base sólida y rica en lectoescritura en todos los salones de clase.

CoreELD y complementos

Materiales de alta calidad para los maestros

Los maestros de Amplify CKLA brindan instrucción de manera eficaz con recursos impresos y digitales, que incluyen:

  • Guías para el maestro con diferenciación integrada.
  • Evaluaciones formales e informales.
  • Diapositivas de lecciones listas para usar y personalizables.
  • Libros comerciales y Guías literarias.
  • Recursos docentes y desarrollo profesional a pedido.

Recursos inmersivos para estudiantes

Los estudiantes de Amplify CKLA se mantienen interesados con una amplia gama de recursos impresos y digitales, que incluyen:

  • Descodificables originales y Libros grandes de lectura en voz alta (K a 2.º grado), Libros de lectura (3.er a 5.º grados) y libros comerciales (K a 5.º grado).
  • Cuadernos de actividades para estudiantes con evaluaciones integradas (K a 5.º grado).
  • Unidades de investigación para investigaciones independientes desarrollados en torno a un libro comercial (K a 5.º grado).
  • Diario del poeta y Diario del escritor (libros de lectura con espacio para escribir para 4.º y 5.º grados).
  • Misiones de conocimiento para apoyar el aprendizaje inmersivo basado en problemas en los grados 3.º a 5.º.

Materiales prácticos de fonética

La fonética multisensorial y los recursos de destrezas fundamentales ayudan a los estudiantes a practicar destrezas clave utilizando enfoques divertidos y variados que desarrollan la independencia.

  •  Carpetas para la práctica de ortografía (K).
  • Tarjetas de letras (K a 2.º grado).
  • Tarjetas de sílabas (K a 2.º grado).
  • Tarjetas de imágenes (K a 3.er grado).
  • Tarjetas de combinación de imágenes (K).
  • Rotafolios de códigos de consonantes y vocales (1.er y 2.º grados).
  • Biblioteca de sonido digital exclusiva.

Experiencia digital robusta

Los recursos para maestros y estudiantes de Amplify CKLA están disponibles a través de una plataforma de experiencia digital que mejora la instrucción y le ahorra tiempo. Con todo lo que necesita en un solo lugar, puede planificar lecciones, presentar contenido y revisar el trabajo de los estudiantes de manera eficaz.

  • Presentaciones de lecciones con diapositivas listas para usar y personalizables.
  • Herramienta dinámica para estudiantes con revisión en vivo.
  • Experiencia interactiva y amigable para los estudiantes.
  • Integración LMS.
  • Videos animados de Desarrollo de conocimiento
  • Lecturas en voz alta grabadas.
  • Sitio web de desarrollo profesional.
  • Apoyo al programa en tiempo real por correo electrónico, chat en vivo y teléfono.
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Programa para estudiantes del idioma inglés

Language Studio, diseñado para Amplify CKLA, brinda instrucción diaria alineada con WIDA para que los estudiantes del idioma inglés profundicen su inglés académico.

Programa de exploración de escritura

Writing Studio, un complemento único para Amplify CKLA, ofrece una inmersión profunda en la redacción de información, narrativa y opinión para formar escritores fuertes y apasionados.

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Iowa CKLA review for Grades 6-8

Welcome to the Amplify ELA community review site for Iowa. This site is designed to help you learn about Amplify ELA—a core English Language Arts curriculum for Grades 6-8.

Amplify ELA is a blended curriculum designed to help teachers implement the Iowa Core Literacy Standards by delivering a structured, yet flexible instructional approach grounded in the Science of Reading.

Overview Presentation

After watching the video to the right, scroll down to learn even more, download resources, and access a demo.

What is Amplify ELA?

Amplify ELA is a core program for grades 6–8 that delivers:

  • A unique research-based approach designed to get all students reading grade-level text together.
  • An instructional design that inspires students to read more deeply, write more vividly, and think more critically.
  • A rich combination of dynamic texts, lively discussions, and interactive Quests that truly engages middle schoolers and inspires them to participate in learning.

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Amplify ELA Program Guide

Program effectiveness

How does it work?

Amplify ELA lessons follow a structure that is grounded in regular routines, but that is flexible enough to allow for a variety of learning experiences for your student.  To see the structure of the program at each grade level, please click below.

Grade 6: Program structure

Grade 7: Program structure

Grade 8: Program structure

What do students explore?

Amplify ELA provides everything teachers need to deliver a full year’s worth of standards-based instruction.

Each grade level of Amplify ELA consists of six multimedia units. Four or five of the units are focused on complex literary texts and one or two are collections based on primary source documents and research. Each grade also provides two or three immersive learning experiences called Quests, a dedicated story writing unit, and a poetry unit.

Download the unit overviews below to learn more.

Grade 6: Unit overviews

Grade 7: Unit overviews

Grade 8: Unit overviews

How does it engage all students?

Watching students mature into adolescents: inspiring. Knowing how to engage and motivate their changing brains: science.

The middle school years are marked by a period of tremendous growth and change for students – physically, emotionally, and socially. Amplify ELA understands and embraces these changes, and delivers instruction specifically designed to tap into adolescents’ natural inclinations toward collaboration, exploration, and autonomy.

Amplify ELA Novel Guides

Principles of engagement

Differentiation

Amplify believes all students are capable of reading grade level text together.

Amplify ELA ensures all students have access to the same text. With six distinct levels of differentiation, your student is supported or challenged in a way that meets their unique needs. This includes ELLs at the Developing, Expanding, and Bridging levels as well as students needing substantial support or an extra challenge.

Differentiation for all students

Support for Multilingual Learners

Amplify ELA Library

Assessment

Not only does Amplify ELA include captivating content. It also provides clear and actionable measurement data about student performance.

Our embedded formative and summative assessment tools maximize teaching time, while allowing teachers to make confident, data driven decisions about the instruction and supports students need to grow continually as readers and writers.

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Explore as a teacher

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Virginia 6–8 ELA Review Site

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Welcome, Denver, to Amplify ELA 6-8!

Amplify ELA is the only ELA curriculum that takes the Science of Reading to the next level.

Truly designed for students entering the middle grades, Amplify ELA engages and empowers learners, and addresses the very specific and unique needs of students in grades 6–8.

Rated all-green on EdReports, Amplify ELA earned perfect scores across all gateways.

Scroll down to learn how ELA is uniquely designed to help all your Denver middle schoolers make learning leaps in literacy.

Meet Amplify ELA

Developed specifically for the needs of students entering the middle grades, Amplify ELA is a blended curriculum that promises:

  • A structured, yet flexible approach.
  • Carefully crafted, age-appropriate materials and activities that aren’t too “babyish” or too mature.
  • Complex, content-rich literature and informational texts that ensure ample opportunities for students to encounter both “windows and mirrors”.
  • Highly engaging lessons that keep adolescents plugged in and motivated to learn.
  • An instructional design that levels the playing field for every student.
  • Superior results.

Program Guide

Learn more about key program features and how the program works.

Program structure

Take a look at how ELA is structured and organized.

Research Behind Amplify ELA

Take a look at the research behind the Amplify ELA program.

Grade 6 Overview

Take a closer look at the units that make up our Grade 6 curriculum.

Grade 7 Overview

Take a closer look at the units that make up our Grade 7 curriculum.

Grade 8 Overview

Take a closer look at the units that make up our Grade 8 curriculum.

Access, engagement, and equity

In Amplify ELA, all students read the same text with the help of differentiated supports. In other words, we don’t dumb things down; we bring students up. Our robust collection of diverse texts and research-based approach to instruction not only engage students, but build confidence.

Differentiated supports

Learn more about how Amplify ELA supports every student by providing six levels…

Robust library

Learn more about the more than 650 classic and contemporary fiction and nonficti…

Novel Guides

Our novel guides provide teachers with flexible study guides for the books they…

Newsela partnership

Amplify ELA has partnered with Newsela to bring the world into your classroom.

Poetry in America

Our partnership with Poetry in America brings poets like Richard Blanco right to…

ELLs

With Amplify ELA’s integrated and designated ELD support, English language learners are given a chance to shine.

Embedded supports enable students to engage with and participate in discussion of grade-level texts with their grade-level peers.

Integrated ELD

Learn more about the types of integrated support found in Amplify ELA.

Designated ELD

Learn more about our designated ELD program that works alongside Amplify ELA.

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  • Click the ELA Teacher Platform button below.
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Math resources that tap into your students’ curiosity

As a teacher, you create a collaborative math community with students at its center.

We’re here to help.

Amplify Desmos Math

Complete core program (Grades K–12)

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A new, curiosity-driven K–12 program that builds lifelong math proficiency.

Amplify Desmos Math provides:

  • The ability to transform every classroom into an engaged math community that invites, values, and develops student thinking.
  • Supports and guidance for teachers to systematically build from students’ prior knowledge to grade-level learning.
  • Actionable, asset-based data that informs instruction and personalizes learning, building on what students already know.
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Desmos Classroom

Free teaching and learning platform (Grades K+)

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Desmos Classroom is an interactive teaching and learning platform with hundreds of free K–12 lessons, virtual manipulatives, and teaching tools. With a free teacher account, you can access:

  • Interactive lessons and activities that students can use in the classroom.
  • Polypad virtual manipulatives that allow you to model mathematical concepts in a creative way.
  • A Teacher Dashboard with real-time visuals that provide visibility into student thinking.
  • A lesson-building tool where you can customize or create your own lessons.
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mCLASS® Math

Screening and progress monitoring (Grades K–8)

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Expect more from your assessments with mCLASS® Math.

The brand-new benchmarking and progress-monitoring assessment system represents the next generation in math assessment, providing educators not only with reliable measures of student achievement, but also with an asset-based approach that analyzes student responses to reveal underlying mathematical thinking.

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Boost Math™

Personalized learning and intervention (Grades K–8)

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Boost Math™ is a brand-new, digital-first intervention program. This game-based experience maximizes student potential by building on students’ existing understanding through targeted instruction, small-group intervention resources, and personalized practice.

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A Spanish and English literacy curriculum grounded in the Science of Reading

Discover a suite of Spanish literacy curriculum and assessment programs designed to build confident readers with mCLASS® Lectura, Amplify Caminos, and Boost Lectura. Amplify’s biliteracy suite includes assessment, core instruction, and personalized learning built on the Science of Reading.

mCLASS Lectura assessment

mCLASS Lectura is a Science of Reading-based universal and dyslexia screener for K–6 that helps educators accelerate students’ literacy in Spanish. When combined with mCLASS DIBELS® 8th Edition, it’s the only assessment offering a dual language instructional report that enables teachers to identify skills students can transfer across languages.

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Amplify Caminos core curriculum

When combined with Amplify Caminos, mCLASS Lectura helps you provide targeted whole-class instruction specific to your class’s or students’ risk levels and areas of growth for Spanish literacy.

Boost Lectura personalized learning

mCLASS Lectura drives placement into Boost Lectura, our personalized learning program, placing students on a skill map that meets them at their instructional level.

Amplify Caminos
core curriculum

Amplify Caminos is a K–5 Spanish language arts curriculum that helps teachers inspire students to become confident readers, writers, and thinkers in Spanish. Grounded in the Science of Reading and following biliteracy principles, the program combines rich content knowledge with systematic foundational skills instruction.

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mCLASS Lectura assessment

Amplify Caminos provides strong core instruction in the same critical literacy skills measured in mCLASS Lectura, helping align your assessment and core instruction.

Boost Lectura personalized learning

Amplify Caminos and Boost Lectura are grounded in the same evidence-based Spanish literacy skills progression, reinforcing skill development through personalized practice.

Boost Lectura personalized learning

Boost Lectura is a K–2 personalized Spanish literacy program with proven efficacy that focuses on key accelerants of critical literacy skills. Boost Lectura offers a highly adaptive, student-led approach to personalized learning that’s instructive and engaging. Boost Lectura also fits in any classroom model, allowing for easy integration without disrupting routines.

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mCLASS Lectura assessment

Boost Lectura uses mCLASS Lectura’s data for student placement, providing practice with the skills students need the most.

Amplify Caminos core curriculum

Boost Lectura expands on the learning experience from Amplify Caminos, delivering personalized practice to support foundational skill development.

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Built on principles that honor biliteracy

Biliteracy opens the door to rewarding learning opportunities for students. Amplify is committed to biliteracy development and empowering educators in fostering great teaching and learning experiences. Access our biliteracy and Science of Reading principles, the foundation of our biliteracy suite, for insights into how bilingual literacy develops.

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See what the evaluators at EdReports have to say about Amplify’s high-quality curriculum.

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Amplify CKLA

Using a fundamentally different approach to language arts, Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) is a PreK–5 program that sequences deep content knowledge with research-based foundational skills. CKLA met expectations and received green ratings from EdReports. Learn more about the program.

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Amplify CKLA Skills

Built on a systematic scope and sequence, Amplify CKLA Skills offers the explicit skills instruction needed in today’s classrooms. Amplify CKLA Skills earned a perfect score on foundational skills criteria from EdReports. Learn more about the program.

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Amplify ELA

Built specifically for middle school, Amplify ELA is an interactive core curriculum that engages students by bringing complex texts to life. ELA received near-perfect scores from EdReports. Learn more about the program.

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Amplify Science

Amplify Science empowers students to think, read, and write like real scientists and engineers. Amplify Science K–8 received all-green ratings in EdReports’ review of national science curricula. Learn more about the program.

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Desmos Math 6–8

Designed for middle school, Desmos Math 6–8 received perfect scores and an all-green rating from EdReports. Learn more about the program.

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The English language arts program designed to prepare Arkansas middle schoolers for high school and beyond.

Amplify ELA is a blended English language arts curriculum designed specifically to support students in grades 6–8 and prepare them for high school and beyond. With Amplify ELA, students learn to tackle any complex text and make observations, grapple with interesting ideas, and find relevance for themselves.

Built for middle school teachers and students

Built specifically for middle school, Amplify ELA is an interactive core curriculum that brings complex texts to life. Amplify ELA’s 100-Day Pathway is a built-in guide to covering required content for each grade level while allowing teachers time to add supplemental lessons and activities.

All-green rating on EdReports

The results are in! Amplify ELA received a near-perfect score by the independent review group.

Our approach

Amplify ELA is the ELA program designed for middle school. It offers rich texts that are a delight to teach, better connections with your students through powerful differentiation and assessment tools, and step-by-step instructional guides that save you time and simplify your day.

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We empower students to become critical thinkers.

With text always at the center, students are encouraged to make ideas and opinions about meaning for themselves. Rather than focusing on right or wrong answers, they develop ideas and opinions on relevant, real-world, texts.

We provide six levels of differentiation.

Multiple entry points and differentiated supports allow every student, regardless of fluency or ability level, to engage deeply with the same complex texts and rigorous curriculum.

We assess while you instruct.

Embedded assessments and reports provide insight into each student’s progress without having to interrupt daily instruction. With data being collected at every learning moment, teachers can respond to student needs faster than ever before.

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Beyond “make it fun”: Four principles of true engagement in middle school ELA

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What’s included

Amplify ELA is a rigorous core curriculum that empowers teachers and engages middle school students.

Student edition

Available digitally and in print, the student materials guide middle schoolers through complex texts and writing by:

  • engaging students with high-quality narrative and informational texts
  • providing videos, audio supports, and digital experiences that capture their attention
  • keeping all of their writing in one place with a personal writing journal

Teacher Edition

Available digitally and in print, the Teacher Edition contains all the information teachers need to facilitate classroom instruction, including:

  • detailed lesson plans
  • video teacher tips embedded in the lesson
  • standards alignment and exit tickets
  • real-time differentiation strategies
  • robust reporting

Interactive Quests

Quests are fun, week-long immersions into a specific, multilayered topic. They enable students to practice analytical reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills—all while building a strong classroom community.

Digital library for independent reading

The expansive Amplify Library includes more than 700 digital fiction, nonfiction, classic, and contemporary titles.

Amplify ELA makes teachers’ lives easier

Our program ensures that standards are covered, skills are taught, and students are prepared with proper scaffolding and encouragement.

  • Embedded differentiation to support all readers.
  • Informative and streamlined assessment system.
  • Robust reporting that tracks progress.
  • Powerful feedback tools.
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Amplify Tutoring

Amplify Tutoring supports—and accelerates—student proficiency in foundational literacy skills. Aligned to high-impact tutoring (HIT) design principles, it features research-backed lessons grounded in the Science of Reading from mCLASS® Intervention, an ESSA-aligned program.

Efficacy

Amplify Tutoring: 2021–2022 Data Summary: A nation at risk: disrupted learning: Post Covid, Amplify Tutoring offered programs for thousands of students.

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2022–2023 Data Summary: Accelerating learning through high-impact tutoring: Amplify has scaled high-impact tutoring solutions.

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Amplify Tutoring 2023–2024 Impact Summary: Students in Amplify Tutoring make outsized reading gains, showing the promise of high-impact tutoring, as 2024 NAEP reading results remain below pre-pandemic levels.

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Student Impact and Supports for High-impact Tutoring in Texas 2023–2024: High-impact tutoring scaled across Texas helped accelerate students’ reading growth.

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High-Dosage Tutoring: Accelerating Learning in Ohio 2024–2025: Ohio students in Amplify Tutoring made reading gains as the state prioritized high-impact tutoring.

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Boost Reading & Boost Lectura

Leveraging compelling storytelling and the latest research, Boost Reading supplemental instruction enables students to make better-than-expected progress, reduces students’ risk for reading difficulty, and helps close achievement gaps for multilingual learners. Boost Reading meets criteria for Tier II-Moderate Evidence as an education intervention under ESSA.

Efficacy

New! Overview: Accelerating literacy growth for SY 2021-22 (published in 2023)

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New! Report: Closing the literacy gap for students in K–5 (published in 2023)

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Overview: Accelerating literacy growth for SY 2020-21 (published in 2023)

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Report: Impact of Boost Reading on K–5 Student Growth (published in 2021)

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Report: Impact of Boost Reading on K–2 Student Growth (published in 2019)

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Report: Boost Reading pilot efficacy research report (published in 2019)

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Overview: Boost Reading pilot efficacy overview (published in 2019)

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Report: Boost Reading 6–8 efficacy research report (published in 2019)

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Research base

Boost Reading: The missing link in reading comprehension (published 2023)

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Boost Reading: Foundational skills instruction on Boost Reading (2023)

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Boost Lectura

New! Overview: Advancing Spanish literacy for Fall 2023 (published in 2024)

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mCLASS

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Amplify CKLA & Amplify Caminos

Using a fundamentally different approach to language arts, Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts® (CKLA) is built on decades of early literacy research that demonstrates the importance of wide-ranging background knowledge and explicit and systematic instruction in foundational skills. Increasingly more districts are choosing Amplify CKLA because they know they’ll see results.

Amplify CKLA meets the criteria for Tier I-Strong Evidence as an education intervention under ESSA.

Impact overview

Efficacy

[TIER I ESSA EVIDENCE] Building knowledge boosts comprehension: Amplify CKLA outperformed a control group on proximal and standardized tests.

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An evaluation of Core Knowledge curriculum in charter schools:
Reading scores significantly improved and income-based gaps were eliminated.

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NYC CKLA early literacy pilot: CKLA students’ literacy gains more than doubled those of students at demographically similar schools.

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AZ CKLA efficacy research report: CKLA significantly improved outcomes for students overall, as well as economically disadvantaged and Latino students.

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Case studies

Aldine Independent School District, Texas: Amplify’s early literacy suite boosts reading proficiency from 30% to 50%.

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Allen Parish School District, Louisiana: After just one year, student reading proficiency rose from 58% to 80%.

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Oak Harbor School District, Washington: Kindergarten reading proficiency improved by 19% and Grade 1 by 31% in 3 years.

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West Jefferson Hills School District, Pennsylvania: Students reach the 98th percentile among their peers nationwide after implementing Amplify.

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Salemberg Elementary School, North Carolina: Students made 80–100 composite points of growth in one semester.

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Euclid City School District, Ohio: Amplify CKLA, Boost Reading, and mCLASS boosted Euclid Kindergarten reading proficiency from 10% to 57% and Grade 1 from 20% to 37% in one school year.

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Gallia County Local School District, Ohio: With Amplify CKLA, the number of Gallia County students needing a Reading Improvement Plan dropped from 46% to 27% in one year.

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Research base

Amplify CKLA: The research behind the knowledge-based approach to reading comprehension

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The baseball experiment: How two Wisconsin researchers discovered that the comprehension gap is a knowledge gap

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CKLA Curriculum: Links to research on teaching and learning

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Amplify Caminos

Amplify Caminos: The research behind the program

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Our purpose

Dear teachers,

You do a job that is nearly impossible and utterly essential.

We are in your corner—extending your reach, saving you time, and enhancing your understanding of each student.

Thank you for working with us to craft rigorous and riveting learning experiences for your classroom. We share your goal of inspiring all students to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves.

Sincerely,

Amplify

Our commitment

Our goal is to make education, and thereby the world, more equitable and accessible.

We create education products that celebrate difference in life and thought as well as ideals we hold in common.

We help teachers craft rigorous learning experiences that reflect the diverse histories, cultures, and identities their students bring to the classroom.

We also help teachers support their students in constructing, questioning, expanding, and strengthening knowledge of where they come from and who they are becoming.

To do this, we hire and develop people with the broadest range of talents, life stories, and experiences, and together we build a diverse and inclusive culture.

Leading the way in high-quality, next-generation curriculum and assessments

Amplify collaborates with educators to create learning experiences that are rigorous and riveting for all students. Amplify creates K–12 core and supplemental curriculum, assessment, and intervention programs for today’s students.

Our impact

A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and formative assessment. Today, Amplify serves 15 million students in all 50 states. Read about our purpose and commitment.

Leadership

Amplify’s executive team includes proven leaders from the fields of education, technology, business, and media.

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Our team

We are passionate about the work we do at Amplify. If you want to help make schools great places to teach and exciting places to learn, please get in touch.

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A purpose-driven culture

At Amplify, we enable all students and teachers to access the highest quality instructional materials. This purpose informs everything we do every day. To this end, we hire and develop talented people with the broadest range of skills, life stories, and experiences, and together we build a purpose-driven, diverse, and inclusive culture.

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Our programs

Our captivating core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science support teachers in engaging all their students in rigorous learning and inspiring them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers provide the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math.

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Careers

We’re looking for innovators and optimists to join us in developing next-generation curriculum and assessment programs for K–12 schools.

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Who we are

Remote first. Brooklyn based. In person sometimes. Amplify is powered by a collaborative team of education, technology, and creative professionals who develop next-generation programs that inspire teachers and students to do their best work.  Apply for one of our open positions.

People and culture

Amplify is a purpose-driven community where diverse, cross-functional teams work together to create high-quality programs.

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With headquarters in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood, we’re at the center of New York’s thriving tech and creative community.

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Get inspired.

We take an agile approach that enables us to adapt our programs to the needs of teachers and students. Collaboration helps us stay innovative.

Meet the team.

Our common purpose drives us to work across disciplines to develop next-generation solutions for the classroom. Meet some of our team members.

Meet the team

Leadership

Amplify’s leadership includes executives and board members from the fields of education, technology, design, business, and media.

Our team

Hiring practices

We hire and develop people with the broadest range of talents, life stories, and experiences, and together we build a cohesive team. We follow fair hiring practices and create an environment where team members feel valued, empowered, and heard.

Amplify workplace awards

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Best fully remote places to work

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Excellence in back to school 2023

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What we offer

Amplify employees report feeling engaged and eager to come to work every day. They’re motivated by our mission of improving the lives of teachers and students. And learning isn’t just for the students we serve—we are dedicated to providing our employees opportunities for ongoing growth. Explore our benefits in detail.

Full benefits

Our robust suite of health insurance options includes health, dental, and vision coverage for spouses, domestic partners, and children—and becomes effective on your date of hire. We make a generous contribution to all employee HSA plans, which can be used to cover eligible health expenses. We also offer unlimited paid time off, a 401(k) plan with an employer match, long- and short-term disability, employer-sponsored employee life insurance, and a pre-tax commuter program. We also offer paid parental leave, backup childcare for those times when your regular care falls through, and backup eldercare to take care of those who supported you when you needed it most. On top of all that, we also provide our full-time employees with a robust voluntary benefits program that includes coverage options for everyone in the family, including pets.

Opportunities for inspiration

Amplify believes in the importance of supporting charitable nonprofit organizations in the communities where we live and work. We encourage our employees to support organizations that promote the advancement of equity, particularly through the welfare of children and families in the areas of education, health, and social services. One way for employees to give back is through our Volunteer Time Off program, which allows employees to take 16 hours each year to contribute to an eligible charitable or nonprofit organization. In addition, our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) offer many opportunities to get involved in various charitable activities throughout the year.

Tuition reimbursement

Full-time employees who are enrolled in an accredited college or university course related to their areas of work are eligible to receive tuition reimbursement..

We’re hiring.

Want to use your talents to make a real difference—and have fun doing it? Come join us.

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Inspiring future scientists: Amplify Science success stories

You have the next generation of scientists in your classroom—and we’re here to help! Science students across the country are using Amplify Science to think, read, write, investigate, and argue like scientists. 

Why Amplify Science? Educators like you will activate curiosity by asking science students to solve real-world problems. Hear from educators across the country about the benefits of Amplify’s phenomena-based science curriculum.

You’re changing learning outcomes and helping to inspire the next generation of scientists today. Explore the unit topics covered in Amplify Science.

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District spotlights

Big Lake, Minnesota

“Teachers really hit the ground running” with Amplify Science, setting off significant improvements for students.

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Yukon Public Schools, Oklahoma

Students in Yukon Public Schools make strong progress in mastering critical science content with Amplify Science.

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Lafourche Parish School District, Louisana

Students in Lafourche Parish School District achieve academic success with Amplify Science after prolonged devastation.

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Grand Island, Nebraska

Grand Island Public Schools made significant gains in science and literacy after implementing Amplify Science.

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The power of phenomena: Portland, Maine

Discover how students in Portland Public Schools use hands-on investigations to solve real-world problems.

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A week in the life: Denver, Colorado <br>

Learn how middle school educators in Denver Public Schools take on a week of lessons in Amplify Science.

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What educators say about Amplify Science

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“I would recommend Amplify Science to any district looking for a curriculum that is going to engage their students and their teachers in a compelling phenomena-based curriculum.”

—Brooke Teller

STEM Director, Portland Public Schools

Unlock classroom success with Amplify webinars.

Watch one of our on-demand webinars to learn how educators like you can use Amplify Science in your classroom.

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Our K–12 international education programs inspire students around the world.

At Amplify, we believe that every teacher and student deserves access to high-quality materials. That’s why we collaborate with international schools to meet their core curriculum, assessment, and intervention needs.

By providing solutions grounded in research and evidence-based practices, Amplify is making an impact on international K–12 education.

We are making an impact around the globe.

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continents

80+

countries

900+

schools worldwide

700,000+

students globally

Amplify international education programs

The following programs are available internationally.

Core curriculum

STEM

Literacy

Assessment and Intervention

STEM

Literacy

Supplemental

STEM

Literacy

Amplify professional learning

From live, in-person training and coaching to online courses and virtual professional development, we offer a range of support to fit schools’ needs and educators’ busy schedules. Professional development offerings include the following:

  • Launch sessions
  • Strengthen sessions
  • Coach sessions
  • Custom packages
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Custom development

We collaborate with governments and government agencies to localize and customize our high-quality instructional materials to ensure they align with specific education standards and frameworks.

Get in touch with our sales team to discuss how we can help your organization.

License our digital tools.

Explore Amplify’s digital tools and how they can make your programs more engaging and digital-forward.

Publishers can license the Amplify teaching and learning digital platform, which offers robust digital functionality—including digital manipulatives—that can transform print-based instructional programs into interactive, collaborative, and engaging digital experiences for teachers and students.

If you want to use our platform for commercial purposes, please contact our team.

Amplify international education support

Amplify aims to provide the best customer support throughout each stage of your journey, whether you are exploring our programs for the first time or are a long-term partner.

Below, you’ll find a quick guide on the international purchase process and expected timelines.

Simple steps to get your order processed quickly:

To ensure that there are no delays, we advise you to place your order 3–4 months prior to your first day of school. This should allow enough time for shipping and digital set up.

Purchasing

Our international sales team can answer your questions about our programs and services. Please fill out the form to speak with your account executive.

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Ordering and payment

We want your purchasing experience to be as seamless as possible. Visit our customer portal to learn more about your payment options.

Please be sure to include:

  • A signed PO. Don’t forget to add your PO number.
  • A copy of your Price Quote.
  • A copy of your Tax-Exemption Certificate.

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You can also email your documents to IncomingPO@amplify.com.

Shipping physical materials

  • Submit your logistics and product quantities on the Order Management Page (OMP).
  • Track shipment(s) with the Shipment Status Page (SSP).

Enrollment and licensing

Please note that our team needs to review your school’s rosters for accuracy and completeness:

  • This process can take up to 12 business days.
  • You will be notified when the licensing process is complete!

Frequently asked questions

Payment processing time can vary, depending on chosen payment method, as well as banking institution. Please allow at least 10 business days for it to be processed. For additional support contact internationalsalessuport@amplify.com.

For digital licenses, you will need to submit your digital logistics information, which includes your school’s rosters data. Our technical onboarding team then needs to verify it for accuracy and completeness. (They might contact you, should they need any clarification.) The digital setup process can take up to four weeks to be completed. For help along the way, please use our Amplify Onboarding Hub.

To avoid delays, please submit your logistics information and product quantities on the Order Management Page as early as possible. Note that international shipping time varies from one country to another due to many factors, including different customs procedures. We are therefore unable to estimate and guarantee delivery time in each case. Amplify offers two international shipping options: 1. Your materials can be shipped from the U.S. directly to you, which will incur an international shipping and handling fee of 25% on the physical products ordered. 2. Alternatively, Amplify can ship your materials to a U.S. freight forwarder, and you can manage the shipping.

Note that setup communications will be sent to the contact person listed on the quote. This email is sometimes routed to the spam folder, so please check there as well. If you do not receive a link within five business days, please contact help@amplify.com with your quote number.

Get support

Our dedicated team members will assist you with purchasing, order fulfillment, enrollment and licensing, and more!

Our support hours are Monday through Friday,
11 a.m.–11 p.m. GMT.

New to our programs? Our international sales support team is here to help!

Email us: internationalsalessupport@amplify.com

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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.

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Teacher materials

Skills Unit 5 Teacher Guide

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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.

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 5 Big Book: Ox and Man

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 6 Big Book: Kit

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 7 Big Book: Seth

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Teacher materials

Skills Small Letter Card Set

Teacher materials

Skills Large Letter Cards

Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 2 Teacher Guide: The 5 Senses

Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 3 Teacher Guide: Stories

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Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 4 Teacher Guide: Plants

Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 2 Image Cards: The 5 Senses

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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.

Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 4 Image Cards: Plants

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Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 2 Flip Book: The 5 Senses

Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 3 Flip Book: Stories

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Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 4 Flip Book: Plants

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Teacher materials

Sound Cards Sampler

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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

Student materials

Skills Unit 6 Activity Book

Student materials

Skills Unit 7 Activity Book

Student materials

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

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Student materials

Knowledge Domains 2, 3, and 4 Sampler

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 3 Teacher Guide

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Skills Unit 4 Teacher Guide

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 2 Big Book: Gran

Teacher materials

Skills Unit 3 Big Book: Fables

Teacher materials

Skills Vowel Code Flip Book

Teacher materials

Skills Large Letter Cards

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Teacher materials

Skills Spelling Cards

Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 2 Teacher Guide: The Human Body

Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 3 Teacher Guide: Different Lands, Similar Stories

Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 5 Teacher Guide: Early American Civilizations

Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 2 Image Cards: The Human Body

Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 3 Image Cards: Different Lands, Similar Stories

Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 5 Image Cards: Early American Civilizations

Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 2 Flip Book: The Human Body

Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 3 Flip Book: Different Lands, Similar Stories

Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 5 Flip Book: Early American Civilizations

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Student materials

Skills Unit 2 Reader: Gran

Student materials

Skills Unit 3 Reader: Fables

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Student materials

Skills Unit 4 Reader: The Green Fern Zoo

Student materials

Skills Unit 2 Activity Book

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Skills Unit 3 Activity Book

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Skills Unit 4 Activity Book

Student materials

Skills Individual Code Chart

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Student materials

Knowledge Domains 2, 3, and 5 Sampler

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Teacher materials

Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide

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Teacher materials

Skills Unit 3 Teacher Guide

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Teacher materials

Skills Vowel Code Flip Book

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Teacher materials

Skills Consonant Code Flip Book

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Teacher materials

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.

Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 1 Teacher Guide: Fairy Tales and Tall Tales

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Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 4 Teacher Guide: Greek Myths

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Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 8 Teacher Guide: Insects

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Teacher materials

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.

Teacher materials

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.

Teacher materials

Knowledge Domain 1 Flip Book: Fairy Tales and Tall Tales

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Teacher materials

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Unit 5 Teacher Guide: Geology

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Unit 4 Activity Book: The Adventures of Don Quixote

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A curiosity-driven K–8 science curriculum

Amplify Science is a K–8 phenomena-based science curriculum that blends hands-on investigations, literacy-rich activities, and interactive digital tools. The result? Elementary and middle school students who think, read, write, and argue like real scientists.

Amplify Science for grades K–8 has been rated all green by EdReports.

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Our approach

Each unit of Amplify Science engages all learners in a relevant, real-world problem where they assume the role of a scientist to investigate scientific phenomena, engage in collaboration and discussion, and develop models or explanations to arrive at solutions.

A research-backed approach to 3D learning

The research-based Do, Talk, Read, Write, Visualize instructional approach—developed by UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science—provides students with multiple opportunities and modalities with which to access science instruction. Independent research proves that this model of learning benefits all learners, and our efficacy research shows improved student achievement.

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Students take on roles of scientists and engineers.

In each unit, students take on the role of a scientist or engineer to investigate a realistic problem. These problems provide relevant contexts through which students investigate real-world phenomena that are seamlessly integrated throughout the unit. By positioning students as engineers or scientists, they are actively engaged in designing innovative solutions and making sense of the world around them.

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Two kids in safety goggles pour liquid from a bottle into a clear container over a blue tray, fully engaged in an Amplify Science activity. Their curiosity and excitement shine as they explore the wonders of middle school science.
Two girls sit at a table, smiling as they explore colorful craft materials, including small containers and papers. Against a light blue background, their project takes shape, reflecting the curious spirit of middle school science enhanced by Amplify Science.

Authentic 3D learning brought to life

Amplify Science integrates the NGSS—and state standards based on them—not just at a surface level, but throughout every lesson of the unit. Students engage with science and engineering practices, figure out disciplinary core ideas, and make connections when they apply Crosscutting Concepts across thoughtfully structured, multimodal lessons.

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Developed by science education experts

Amplify Science was developed by The Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley in partnership with Amplify. It reflects state-of-the-art practices in science teaching and learning.

Children enthusiastically climbing a DNA sculpture at The Lawrence Hall of Science, echoing the spirit of Amplify Science, with the building and a bubbling fountain providing a captivating backdrop that inspires young minds to delve deeper into middle school science wonders.

A flexible, blended program

Amplify Science includes hands-on activities, print materials, and powerful digital tools to support online and offline teaching and learning. Highly adaptable and user-friendly, the program gives schools and individual teachers flexibility based on their technology resources and preferences.

What’s included

Our flexible resources work seamlessly together. Explore the units in Amplify Science.

A middle school science textbook cover sits beside an open laptop displaying a digital unit overview for "Spinning Earth: Investigating Patterns in the Sky" from Amplify Science.

Teacher’s Guides

Available digitally and in print, the Teacher’s Guides contain all of the information teachers need to facilitate classroom instruction, including:

  • Detailed lesson plans.
  • Unit and chapter overview documentation.
  • Differentiation strategies.
  • Standards alignments.
  • In-context professional development.
Explore the world of middle school science with Amplify Science investigation notebooks, featuring captivating titles like "Balancing Forces: Investigating Floating Trains" and "Properties of Matter.

Student Investigation Notebooks

Available for every unit, the Student Investigation Notebooks provide space for students to:

  • Record data.
  • Reflect on ideas from texts and investigations.
  • Construct explanations and arguments.
Five educational science books with captivating covers explore fascinating topics like magnets, plants, biomimicry, and geological wonders. Perfect for middle school science enthusiasts, this series complements Amplify Science's engaging curriculum.

Student Books

Age-appropriate Student Books allow students to:

  • Engage with content-rich texts.
  • Obtain evidence.
  • Develop research and close-reading skills.
  • Construct arguments and explanations.
Explore the digital farming simulation interface, perfect for middle school science classes with Amplify Science integration. Watch plant growth stages, water flow graphics, and detailed soil analysis come to life on tablet and computer screens.

Simulations and Modeling Tools

Developed exclusively for the Amplify Science program, these engaging digital tools:

  • Serve as venues for exploration.
  • Enable data collection.
  • Allow students to explore scientific concepts.
  • Show what might be impossible to see with the naked eye.
Discover the wonders of Amplify Science with a pegboard, rubber bands, and a ball. Perfect for middle school science enthusiasts, this set also includes an electronic component with wires and clips, complemented by three containers filled with intriguing powders.

Hands-on materials kits

Hands-on learning is at the heart of Amplify Science. Each unit kit contains:

  • Consumable and non-consumable hands-on materials.
  • Print classroom display materials.
  • Premium print materials for student use (sorting cards, maps, etc.).
A laptop displaying an educational webpage titled "Geology on Mars" sits next to an "Investigation Notebook" graphic, perfect for Amplify Science lessons in middle school science.

Teacher’s Guides

Available digitally and in print, the Teacher’s Guides contain all of the information teachers need to facilitate classroom instruction, including:

  • Detailed lesson plans.
  • Unit and chapter overview documentation.
  • Differentiation strategies.
  • Standards alignments.
  • In-context professional development.
Five middle school science books from the Amplify Science series, including "Matter and Energy in Ecosystems" and "Introduction: From Silk." Each cover showcases unique images like landscapes and spiders, engaging young minds with captivating visuals.

Student Investigation Notebooks

Available for every unit, the Student Investigation Notebooks provide space for students to:

  • Record data.
  • Reflect on ideas from texts and investigations.
  • Construct explanations and arguments.

Available with full-color article compilations for middle school units

Discover the wonders of Amplify Science with a pegboard, rubber bands, and a ball. Perfect for middle school science enthusiasts, this set also includes an electronic component with wires and clips, complemented by three containers filled with intriguing powders.

Hands-on materials kits

Hands-on learning is at the heart of Amplify Science. Each unit kit contains:

  • Consumable and non-consumable hands-on materials.
  • Print classroom display materials.
  • Premium print materials for student use (sorting cards, maps, etc.).
Three computer screens display data visualizations: two show charts with colored markers, and one shows percentages with color-coded grids. This setup provides an engaging way to explore middle school science concepts, making it easier for students to visually comprehend data.

Digital student experience

Students access the digital simulations and Modeling Tools, as well as lesson activities and assessments, through the digital student experience. Students can interact with the digital student experience as they:

  • Conduct hands-on investigations.
  • Engage in active reading and writing activities.
  • Participate in discussions.
  • Record observations.
  • Craft end-of-unit scientific arguments.
On a laptop screen, a chart titled "After Overfishing in Northern Benguela" showcases a three-circle Venn diagram, reminiscent of lessons from middle school science. In the background, a document featuring an individual in a lab coat and glasses adds to the scholarly scene, evoking elements of Amplify Science curriculum.

Science articles

The middle school science articles serve as sources for evidence collection and were authored by science and literacy experts at the Lawrence Hall of Science.

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What educators say

“Just looking through the Amplify Science curriculum, I’m wishing I could go back in time and learn these concepts with these resources! I love that Amplify is more focused on diving deeper into fewer concepts over the year, rather than grazing the surface of more topics.”

Lizzie

Middle school teacher, KIPP charter network

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What educators say

“In using this program, I have seen that my students are completely engaged and are able to visualize models of concepts using the simulations that they otherwise would not be able to visualize. The program is not about rote memory of facts—rather, it addresses the bigger picture and assesses a deeper understanding of science concepts.”

Julie

Science teacher, Georgia

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What educators say

“The engineering units are engaging and really helped me better understand the new standards. I love being able to walk around and talk to students as they explore solutions, make claims, and reason with their peers.”

Karla

Science teacher, California

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A new, curiosity-driven K–12 program that builds students’ lifelong math proficiency

Meet Amplify Desmos Math. Our structured approach to problem-based learning systematically builds on students’ curiosity to develop lasting grade-level understanding.

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Math that motivates

Picture a classroom where students are so eagerly engaged in a lesson, they wish it wouldn’t end. The room is buzzing with the sounds of natural curiosity. This is what an Amplify Desmos Math classroom looks and sounds like. This is math that motivates.

A structured approach to problem-based learning

Amplify Desmos Math combines and connects conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application. Lessons are designed with the Proficiency Progression™, a model that provides teachers with clear instructional moves to build from students’ prior knowledge to grade-level learning.

A powerful suite of math resources

Amplify Desmos Math combines the best of problem-based lessons, intervention, personalized practice, and assessments into a coherent and engaging experience for both students and teachers.

Data informs instruction. Comprehensive student profiles provide full data on students’ assets and skills, empowering teachers to provide just-in-time scaffolds throughout core instruction and targeted intervention when needed.

Student thinking is valuable and can be made evident.

We believe that math class is a place where teachers can elicit, celebrate, and build on their students’ interesting ideas. Those ideas fuel meaningful classroom conversations and drive the learning process.

Robust assessments that drive learning and inform instruction

A variety of performance data in Amplify Desmos Math provides evidence of student learning, while helping students bolster their skills. With explicit guidance on what to look for and how to respond, teachers can effectively support students as they develop their understanding.

Diagnostic screening and progress monitoring assessments identify what students know and can do.

Integrated mCLASS® Assessments go beyond accuracy to reveal students’ math thinking through an asset-based approach. This data provides better insights about what students know, what math assets to leverage, and where students need support.

Reporting and insights

Teachers and administrators have visibility into what students know about grade-level math with a variety of data reports. By evaluating not only what students know about grade-level math but also providing insight into how they think, teachers can confidently plan whole-class instruction and targeted intervention.

Access to grade-level math for every student, every day

Amplify Desmos Math provides teachers with lessons, strategies, and resources to eliminate barriers and increase access to grade-level content without reducing the mathematical demand of tasks.

Differentiation when and where it matters most

Teachers are provided with clear student actions to look for, matched with immediately usable suggestions for how to respond to student thinking. Each lesson also includes recommendations for resources to use with students to support, strengthen, and stretch their understanding of the lesson goal.

Boost Personalized Learning

Boost Personalized Learning™ activities in Amplify Desmos Math target a skill or concept aligned to the day’s core lesson, with each student receiving personalized scaffolds based on what they already know. Activities adapt to each student’s unique needs.

Intervention Mini-Lessons aligned to core instruction

Amplify Desmos Math Mini-Lessons are aligned to the most critical topics throughout a unit and provide targeted intervention for small groups of students who need additional support or need more time.

What’s included

The program integrates print and digital resources, as well as manipulatives in grades K–5, to help students learn and make sense of mathematical ideas, reason mathematically, and communicate their mathematical thinking.

For students

  • Student Edition (two-volume)
  • Digital access to lesson resources and practice
  • Interactive Student Activity Screens
  • Responsive Feedback™
  • Collaboration tools
  • Boost™ Personalized Learning
  • Hands-on manipulative kits

For teachers

  • Teacher Edition (two-volume)
  • Digital access to planning and instruction resources
  • Presentation Screens
  • Facilitation and progress monitoring tools
  • Assessment and reporting suite, featuring mCLASS Assessments (grades K–8)
  • Assessment Resources
  • Center Resources (grades K–5)
  • Intervention and Extension Resources (grades K–8)

Visual and dynamic interactions pique student interest and invite all students to engage in the mathematics.

  • Engaging interactions
  • Social, collaborative experiences
  • Teacher Dashboard
  • Teacher Presentation Screens
  • Digital facilitation tools
  • A powerful conversation toolkit

Desmos Classroom

Desmos Classroom is a free teaching and learning platform that places student engagement at the center of instruction.

Desmos Classroom features free lessons, lesson-building tools, sharing features, and more. Built by math educators, the platform makes leaning into good pedagogy easier for teachers—which makes the lesson a more interactive experience for students.

Create your teacher account on teacher.desmos.com.

Our free lessons can be used alongside any core math program. Click here to view crosswalks to core programs.

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¡El futuro es bilingüe! | The future is bilingual!

Promote biliteracy with Amplify Caminos, a K–5 Spanish language arts curriculum that helps teachers inspire students as they become confident readers, writers, and thinkers in Spanish. The program combines rich content knowledge with systematic foundational skills instruction that is grounded in the Science of Reading and supports multiple teaching models. Para la versión en español, haga clic aquí.

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Cultivating biliteracy pathways

Amplify Caminos is designed to support any biliteracy model, including English as a Second Language (ESL), transitional bilingual programs, dual language strands, and Spanish immersion programs. Combined with its English language partner, Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA), Amplify Caminos provides a comprehensive biliteracy solution.

Our approach

Grounded in the Science of Reading and following biliteracy principles, Amplify Caminos combines rich, diverse content knowledge with systematic foundational skills instruction to deliver a research-based biliteracy curriculum. 

Leveraging the Science of Reading

At the heart of the Science of Reading is the Simple View of Reading, a formula describing how skilled reading requires both language comprehension and word recognition. Amplify Caminos is built on this model, with powerful resources that drive real results.

Developing foundational skills explicitly and systematically

Amplify Caminos instruction is based on how the Spanish language works. Students learn vowel sounds and common sounds before blending them to form syllables and words. Less frequent consonants and other complex elements are presented later, with an intentional progression that sets students up for success.

Building background knowledge drives results

Students dig deeper and make connections across content areas to build a robust knowledge base for comprehending complex texts. Amplify Caminos and Amplify CKLA follow the Core Knowledge Sequence—a content-specific, cumulative, and coherent approach to building knowledge—with parallel topics to support research-based and equitable Tier 1 instruction in Spanish and English.

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Culturally relevant and challenging texts

Students learn about diverse topics and genres while better understanding themselves and the world with a variety of texts. Authentic Spanish literature, including original decodables by Latino and Hispanic authors, and transadapted texts connect knowledge topics and foundational skills instruction to provide a rich learning experience.

Being bilingual is a superpower

Bilingualism is a cognitive strength: Research attributes it to increased attention, improved working memory, greater awareness of language, and more. Honor the unique skills, strengths, and needs of your multilingual learners with Amplify Caminos and Amplify CKLA.

What’s included

Amplify Caminos features engaging print and multimedia materials—accessible from anywhere—designed to provide a robust literacy-rich foundation in every classroom.

High-quality teacher materials

Amplify Caminos teachers effectively deliver instruction with print and digital resources, including:

  • Teacher Guides with embedded differentiation.
  • Formal and informal assessments.
  • Ready-made and customizable lesson slides.
  • Bilingual Connections to support cross-linguistic transfer.
  • Teacher resources and on-demand professional development.

Immersive student resources

Amplify Caminos students stay engaged with a variety of print and digital resources, including:

  • Original decodables and read-aloud Big Books (K–2), Student Readers (3–5), and authentic Spanish literature anthologies (4–5).
  • Poet’s Journal and Writer’s Journal (write-in Student Readers for Grades 4–5).
  • Student Activity Books with embedded assessments.
  • Research units for independent research built around a trade book.
  • Multisensory phonics materials:
    • Letter Cards (K–2)
    • Syllable Cards (K–2)
    • Image Cards (K–3)
    • Plus, digital anchor charts and a Sound Library.

Robust digital experience

Like Amplify CKLA, Amplify Caminos is proud to be a premier high-quality instructional material (HQIM) offering in elementary language arts, with rich and research-based content—including an expanding library of engaging digital materials—that helps you authentically support, challenge, and engage your students. From digital Teacher Guides to lesson projectables, we provide all the tools needed to successfully deliver every lesson.

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English language arts curriculum for middle school

With Amplify ELA, students learn to tackle any complex text and make observations, grapple with interesting ideas, and find relevance for themselves.

Rated all-green on EdReports, Amplify ELA earned perfect scores across all gateways. Para la versión en español, haga clic aquí.

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Easy and adaptable to teach

With six levels of embedded differentiation and assessments, teachers can make sure students are gaining key skills while not interrupting instruction. Because the program does this work in the background, teachers have more time doing what they love.

Also, only Amplify offers the 100-Lesson Pathway, a built-in guide to covering required content for each grade level in just 100 days while allowing teachers to add supplemental lessons and activities.

Knowledge Matters in Middle School

Amplify ELA has been recognized by the Knowledge Matters Campaign as a high-quality, knowledge-building literacy curriculum.

The Campaign highlights Amplify ELA as a program that infuses wonder and excitement into every learning experience—forging connections across grade levels and providing comprehensive support for both students and educators.

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Our approach

Through its engaging digital program, powerful differentiation and assessment tools, and step-by-step instructional guides, our curriculum responds directly to the challenges and opportunities faced by middle school students and teachers.

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We empower students to become critical thinkers.

With text always at the center, students are encouraged to make ideas and opinions about meaning for themselves. Rather than focusing on right or wrong answers, they develop ideas and opinions on relevant, real-world, texts.

We provide six levels of differentiated support.

Multiple entry points and six levels of embedded differentiated support allow every student, regardless of fluency or ability level, to engage with the same complex texts and curriculum.

We assess while you instruct.

Embedded assessments and reports provide insight into each student’s progress without having to interrupt daily instruction. With data being collected at every learning moment, teachers can respond to student needs faster than ever before.

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What’s included

Amplify ELA is a rigorous core curriculum that empowers teachers and engages middle school students.

Student Edition

Available digitally and in print, the student materials guide middle schoolers through complex texts and writing by:

  • Engaging students with high-quality narrative and informational texts.
  • Providing videos, audio supports, and digital experiences that capture their attention.
  • Keeping all of their writing in one place with a personal Writing Journal.

Teacher Edition

Available digitally and in print, the Teacher Edition contains all the information teachers need to facilitate classroom instruction, including:

  • Detailed lesson plans.
  • Video teacher tips embedded in the lesson.
  • Standards alignment and exit tickets.
  • Real-time differentiation strategies.
  • Robust reporting.

Interactive Quests

Quests are fun, week-long immersions into a specific, multilayered topic. They enable students to practice analytical reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills—all while building a strong classroom community.

Digital library for independent reading

The expansive Amplify Library includes more than 700 digital fiction, nonfiction, classic, and contemporary titles.

Amplify ELA makes teachers’ lives easier

Our program ensures that standards are covered, skills are taught, and students are prepared with proper scaffolding and encouragement.

  • Embedded differentiation to support all readers.
  • Informative and streamlined assessment system.
  • Robust reporting that tracks progress.
  • Powerful feedback tools.
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Achieve next-level literacy growth with a cohesive Science of Reading suite.

The Science of Reading programs in Amplify’s early literacy suite empower you to meet the dynamic needs of every student learning to read. Discover the programs that best fit your literacy priorities and how they work together for a seamless teaching and learning environment.

“There were other programs that claimed to be Science of Reading, but no other vendor provided the suite of products together. And that is what we were looking for. We did not want to be picking from here, picking from there. So from our perspective, [Amplify’s literacy suite] met our needs because it aligned and provided us the best suite of products. Hands down, we couldn’t find anybody else who touched that.”

Nicole Peterson, Director, PreK–8 Education

Sampson County Schools, North Carolina

A true Science of Reading early literacy suite for grades K–5

Amplify has combined the critical elements of a Science of Reading system of assessment, core curriculum, personalized learning, and intervention. Based on 20 years of experience with the Science of Reading, this complete system saves you time and aligns your literacy practices.

  • Assess with mCLASS®: A universal and dyslexia screener, powered by DIBELS® 8th Edition
  • Instruct with Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)®: Core curriculum to build foundational skills and knowledge
  • Practice with Boost Reading: Personalized learning program to extend and reinforce core
  • Intervene with mCLASS Intervention: Staff-led Tier 2 and 3 intervention for intensive support

mCLASS assessment

Powered by DIBELS 8th Edition, mCLASS is a gold-standard universal and dyslexia screener, plus a progress monitoring tool, all in one. With this comprehensive tool, you have precise one-minute measures delivered one-on-one that give you the data you can trust to make informed instructional decisions.

Amplify CKLA core curriculum

mCLASS data informs instructional needs and identifies whole-class and small-group areas of focus.

mCLASS can replace Amplify CKLA’s benchmark assessments in K–2 and can identify appropriate Amplify CKLA instruction for small groups.

Boost Reading personalized learning

Boost Reading and mCLASS integrate to personalize student practice in targeted skill areas.

mCLASS data automatically places students at the appropriate Boost Reading starting point.

You can view student progress with side-by-side mCLASS and Boost Reading data.

mCLASS Intervention

mCLASS assessment identifies risk early on and places students in and out of mCLASS Intervention groups.

mCLASS progress monitoring data creates intervention groups and daily lesson plans for 10-day cycles.

Amplify CKLA core curriculum

Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) provides explicit, systematic foundational skills instruction combined with intentional knowledge building. Rich content spans topics in history, science, literature, and the arts to build deep background knowledge.

mCLASS assessment

Amplify CKLA instructs in the same critical literacy skills measured by mCLASS, aligning your assessment and core curriculum.

mCLASS can replace Amplify CKLA’s benchmark assessments in K–2 and can identify appropriate Amplify CKLA instruction for small groups.

Boost Reading personalized learning

Boost Reading reinforces skills learned in Amplify CKLA for which students need extra practice.

The programs are aligned through a shared foundational skills scope and sequence, and Boost Reading’s comprehension practice complements Amplify CKLA’s knowledge-building approach.

mCLASS Intervention

mCLASS Intervention allows you to support Tier 1 instruction to get at-risk readers on track.

mCLASS Intervention lesson plans extend skills learned in Amplify CKLA curriculum.

Phonological awareness and phonics focus complements Amplify CKLA’s Skills Strand.

Boost Reading personalized learning

Boost Reading is a highly adaptive personalized reading program that reinforces the core curriculum and supports enrichment, remediation, and intervention for each student in your classroom. Robust growth and proficiency reporting provides you with actionable insights into student development.

mCLASS assessment

Boost Reading and mCLASS integrate to personalize student practice in targeted skill areas.

mCLASS data automatically places students at the appropriate Boost Reading starting point.

You can view student progress with side-by-side mCLASS and Boost Reading data.

Amplify CKLA core curriculum

Boost Reading reinforces skills learned in Amplify CKLA for which students need extra practice.

The programs are aligned through a shared foundational skills scope and sequence.

Boost Reading’s comprehension practice complements Amplify CKLA’s knowledge-building approach.

mCLASS Intervention

Boost Reading and mCLASS Intervention together support intensive intervention for individuals and small groups.

The programs combine streamlined intervention lessons with an online practice component.

Small-group intervention can happen while other students practice independently in Boost Reading.

mCLASS Intervention

mCLASS Intervention is a Tier 2 and 3 targeted, staff-led intervention program made easy with automatic data-driven grouping and sequenced explicit, systematic skills lesson plans to support at-risk students.

mCLASS assessment

mCLASS assessment identifies risk early on and places students in and out of mCLASS intervention groups.

mCLASS benchmark and progress monitoring data creates groups and daily lesson plans for 10-day cycles.

Amplify CKLA core curriculum

mCLASS Intervention allows you to support Tier 1 instruction to get at-risk readers on track.

mCLASS Intervention lesson plans extend skills learned in Amplify CKLA instruction.

Phonological awareness and phonics focus complements Amplify CKLA’s Skills Strand.

Boost Reading personalized learning

Boost Reading and mCLASS Intervention together support intensive intervention for individuals and small groups.

The programs combine streamlined intervention lessons with an online practice component.

Small-group intervention can happen while other students practice independently in Boost Reading.

A 20% boost in literacy rates:

Our Science of Reading programs are helping Aldine Independent School District in Texas rewrite its literacy narrative.

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The cohesive early literacy system teachers and students deserve

Support your MTSS and RTI models

A strong Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) enables you to make data-based decisions and confidently meet every student’s needs. Our integrated early literacy suite includes universal and dyslexia screening, core curriculum, personalized learning, intervention, and ongoing professional development.

Each program in the suite is directly aligned to the Response to Intervention (RTI) model of tiered instruction.

Aligned resources that do away with piecemealing

A literacy ecosystem built on the same Science of Reading principles and pedagogical foundation ensures that students experience a cohesive and reinforced literacy journey. Our programs allow you to support all students without cobbling together additional resources to fill in the gaps.

They follow an explicit and systematic structure, build knowledge, and assess and instruct on all of the foundational skills essential to literacy development.

The data you need to make informed decisions

Our universal and dyslexia screening data is predictive and reliable, and it’s aligned to the entire instructional system. It enables you to make informed decisions for whole-group, small-group, and individual instruction, as well as resource allocation at the school and district level.

Amplify’s early literacy programs support you wherever you are in the Science of Reading journey. Download our Science of Reading roadmap to help you determine where to start.

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Our early literacy programs in action

Case study: Aldine Independent School District, Texas

Implementing Amplify CKLA core curriculum, Boost Reading personalized learning, and mCLASS assessment boosted reading proficiency from 30% to 50%

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Case study: Allen Parish School District, Louisiana

After just one year of integrating mCLASS assessment and Amplify CKLA core curriculum, Grade 1 student reading proficiency rose from 58% to 80% across eleven Title 1 schools

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Case study: West Jefferson Hills School District, Pennsylvania

Students reached the 98th percentile among their peers nationwide after implementing Amplify CKLA core curriculum, Boost Reading personalized learning, and mCLASS assessment. The shift not only inspired students in their literacy journey, but also made teachers feel more confident in teaching literacy.

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Science of Reading resources

Successfully adopting new Science of Reading literacy programs will change lives. We provide extensive resources, professional learning, and complementary events and webinars so you can begin using your new programs with fidelity.

Science of Reading essentials

Champion research-based literacy programs in your classroom with our extensive Science of Reading resources.

Science of Writing: A Primer

Unlock writing mastery! Explore our new primer on literacy research and the Science of Writing.

Cultivate lifelong learning

Gain useful knowledge with our top-rated podcast.

Staff development services

Invest in a professional development plan.

“[We wanted] something that moved kids beyond the traditional low-level type of thinking about literacy, reading, and engaging with text. The choice of Amplify became clear for our district. The tremendous professional support from Amplify, matched with the commitment of our people. We’re finally seeing something different, and the results are encouraging.”

Matthew Patterson, Ph.D., Assistant Superintendent

West Jefferson Hills School District , Pennsylvania

Passion for reading in Sampson County, NC

Mia and Grade 2 teacher Jenny Denning explored the power of the Amplify early literacy suite together.

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Inspiring confidence in Tennessee

Kaleb and Assistant Principal Casey Price tackled reading from the ground up with Amplify’s early literacy programs.

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Real results, rooted in the Science of Reading: Amplify success stories

The Science of Reading is all about the evidence we have of how our brains learn to read. We also have evidence that it works—not just from science, but from real Amplify educators using it to transform their classrooms every day.

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District spotlights

Oak Harbor, Washington

Kindergarten reading proficiency improved by 19% and Grade 1 by 31% in three years.

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Aldine Independent School District, Texas

Amplify’s early literacy suite boosts reading proficiency from 30% to 50%.

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Allen Parish School District, Louisiana

After just one year of using Amplify CKLA, student reading proficiency rose from 58% to 80%.

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West Jefferson Hills School District, Pennsylvania

Students reached the 98th percentile among their peers nationwide after implementing Amplify.

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Program efficacy

More and more districts are choosing Amplify because they know they’ll see results. Amplify programs meet the criteria for Tier I (Strong) and Tier II (Moderate) evidence as education interventions under ESSA.

Closing the literacy gap for studen…

A study revealed that Boost Reading drives positive student outcomes.

An evaluation of Core Knowledge cur…

Reading scores significantly improved and income-based gaps were eliminated.

[TIER I ESSA EVIDENCE] Building kno…

Amplify CKLA outperformed a control group on proximal and standardized tests.

mCLASS@ Dyslexia Screening Measure…

A research study shows reliability and validity evidence for mCLASS dyslexia scr…

Examining the Efficacy of mCLASS In…

Results of this report suggest that student achievement in mCLASS Intervention s…

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“When we were looking at the products… no other vendor provided the suite of products together. And that is what we were looking for… So from our perspective, [Amplify’s literacy suite] met our needs because it aligned and provided us the best suite of products. And hands down, we couldn’t find anybody else who touched that.”

—Nicole Peterson, PreK-8 Director

Sampson County Schools, North Carolina

Amplify + North Carolina: The power of a Science of Reading curriculum

Discover how Sampson County, North Carolina, schools use Amplify’s early literacy suite based on the Science of Reading to unlock the magic of reading for their students—and ensure results.

Sparking literacy success in Tennessee

Learn how Tennessee uses Amplify programs to change lives and create new futures for kids every single day.

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Customer voices

Saving time with Amplify

Michelle Arnett, New Glarus School District

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On-demand roundtable discussions

Learn how you can start making the shift to improved literacy instruction with the Science of Reading right now by hearing from educators across the country who used Amplify programs and saw incredible results.

Elementary ELA Educator Roundtable

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Supplemental Reading Educator Roundtable

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Assessment & Intervention Educator Roundtable

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Middle School ELA Educator Roundtable

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Amplify Science of Reading Star Award Winners Panel—K–8 Literacy and Reading Supplemental Program

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The Importance of Dual Language Assessment & How to Deliver It

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Amplify CKLA Knowledge Building—K–5 Core Knowledge Language Arts Curriculum

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Boost Reading Customer Panel—K–5 Personalized Reading Curriculum and Program

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Amplify CKLA Customer Panel—K–5 Core Knowledge Language Arts Curriculum

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mCLASS Customer Panel—K–6 Literacy Systems and Support

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Amplify CKLA in Action

Rich, engaging content is at the center of Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts® (CKLA) curriculum and instruction. Students build subject area knowledge in history, science, literature, and the arts by learning to read and write. High-quality instructional materials built on the Science of Reading simplify your planning and provide the support and resources you need.

Inside the Classroom

Kindergarten

Follow along as a kindergarten class goes through an Amplify CKLA Skills Strand lesson on tricky words. Students review sounds and spellings using Large Letter Cards, engage with Student Readers, and receive explicit instruction from their teacher in both whole- and small-group settings.

Grade 1

In this Amplify CKLA Knowledge Strand lesson, students achieve reading proficiency with complex read-alouds, exposure to background knowledge, vocabulary practice, text-based discussions, and writing activities.

Grade 4

Watch students journey through a Quest for the Core™ in the Amplify CKLA lesson, Eureka! Student Inventor. These fourth-graders work in teams, combining research, writing, and presenting skills to become master inventors.

Spotlights

Knowledge at the center
When you put knowledge at the center of learning, an amazing thing happens: students get motivated and curious for more. They learn to read, and they learn to love reading.

Foundational skills to accelerate fluency
Watch students receive targeted, explicit instruction on sounds, spellings, and word automaticity in lessons designed to teach phonological awareness, decoding, and more.

Making teachers’ lives easier with high-quality instructional materials
Hear a teacher’s account of how Amplify CKLA gives teachers all the tools and support they need no matter how much experience they have.

Student engagement
Watch how much students enjoy learning about the latest topic and how eager they are to join classroom discussions. Teachers can see the increased engagement and the program’s results.

Testimonials

“I would highly recommend this program to any school … you see the confidence it builds within kids. It meets the needs of the socioeconomically disadvantaged kids, it meets the needs of EL kids. It meets the needs of all kids.”

Mike Iribarren
Principal, Alvina Elementary School, California

Testimonials

“[It] brought the joy back to teaching for me.”

Courtney Austin
Grade 5 Teacher, Bryant Elementary, California

Testimonials

“High-quality content matters to teachers, to kids, and to our collective future.”

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The next chapter in the Science of Reading

Introducing Amplify CKLA 3rd Edition, a K–5 core literacy program within Amplify’s literacy suite. For more than a decade, Amplify CKLA has transformed classrooms nationwide with its intentional knowledge building and systematic skills instruction. Available for the 2025–2026 school year, the 3rd Edition builds on this successful foundation to better support all students in becoming confident readers, writers, and thinkers. Together, let’s write the next chapter in the Science of Reading.

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Amplify CKLA serves

150,000+

Classrooms

4,000,000+

Students

50

U.S. States and D.C.

Our approach

Improve outcomes with a program built on a decade of research, and that meets the strongest ESSA Tier I criteria.

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Grounded in the Science of Reading

As the original Science of Reading program, Amplify CKLA puts research into action with explicit, systematic foundational skills instruction and a proven knowledge-building sequence. In collaboration with education experts and practitioners, we provide powerful resources that deliver real results.

Success stories

Background knowledge drives results

Amplify CKLA follows the Core Knowledge Sequence, a content-specific, cumulative, and coherent approach to knowledge building. This approach improves reading scores and closes achievement gaps by establishing a robust knowledge base that strengthens comprehension.

In Amplify CKLA 3rd Edition, we’ve enriched our Knowledge Sequence with a wider range of perspectives and high-quality texts in new and enhanced units.

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Build foundational skills for long-term success.

Students progress from simple to complex skill development starting with phonological and phonemic awareness. Instruction in Grades K–2 explicitly teaches the 150 spellings for the 44 sounds of English, following an intentional progression to ensure student success.

In our 3rd Edition, we’ve added dedicated Grade 3 foundational skills instruction that can either support core lessons or function as an intervention, based on student needs.

Skills by year

Daily writing deepens learning.

Grounded in the Science of Writing—the research on how kids learn to write—instruction is explicit, daily, and woven into the curriculum’s rich content. It covers both transcription (handwriting and spelling) and composition (organizing ideas into narratives) with high-impact activities like sentence-level combining and expanding, and pre-writing exercises. Writing and reading instruction are integrated so students simultaneously strengthen their communication skills, comprehension, and confidence.

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High-quality, diverse texts

Amplify CKLA students are immersed in a variety of texts—complex read-alouds, decodable chapter books, trade books, and content-rich readers—that reflect varied experiences and connect to learning goals.

Readers are 100% decodable for Grades K–2, empowering students to directly apply what they’ve learned. Novel Study units for Grades 3–5 offer a mix of contemporary and classic literature, and Culminating Research Units in every grade include a set of authentic texts and trade books.

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Reach all learners with differentiated support.

Scaffolds and challenges, developed in collaboration with education experts, make content available to every student—including multilingual and English learners. With strategies embedded right in the curriculum, teachers can deliver in-the-moment, individualized instruction to meet all student needs.

For a dedicated English language development program aligned to Amplify CKLA, explore Language Studio.

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What’s included

The comprehensive resources in Amplify CKLA 3rd Edition support effective literacy instruction in every classroom.

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Easy-to-use teacher materials

Amplify CKLA teachers are empowered to deliver effective instruction with the following print and digital resources:

  • Teacher Guides (K–5)
  • Assessment Guides (K–5)
  • Authentic texts and trade books (K–5)
  • Knowledge Image Cards (K–2)
  • Knowledge Flip Books (K–2, digital)
  • Ready-made and customizable Presentation Screens (K–5, digital)
  • Remediation and intervention resources (K–5)
  • On-demand professional development (K–5, digital)

Immersive Amplify CKLA student resources

Amplify CKLA students stay engaged with the following print and digital resources:

  • Decodable readers (K–2)
  • Student Readers and novels (3–5)
  • Student Activity Books (K–5)
  • Poet’s Journal and Writer’s Journal (3–5)
  • eReaders (K–5, digital)
  • Sound Library featuring articulation videos and songs (K–2, digital)
  • Skill-building practice games (K–5)
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Rich literary experiences

All of the high-quality, diverse texts in Amplify CKLA connect to the curriculum, fostering your students’ curiosity and helping them learn to read with confidence.

  • Trade Book Collections (K–5) inspire student research in each grade’s Culminating Research Unit.
  • Classic and contemporary literature (3–5) delight students in Novel Study Units.
  • Increasingly complex Student Readers (K–5) develop students’ literacy across grades.

Hands-on phonics materials

Multisensory phonics and foundational skills resources engage students with fun, varied approaches that promote mastery and build independence.

  • Chaining Folders and Small Letter Cards (K)
  • Read-Aloud Big Books (K–1)
  • Large Letter Cards (K–2)
  • Sound Cards (K–2)
  • Image Cards (K–3)
  • Blending Picture Cards (K)
  • Consonant and Vowel Code Posters and Spelling Cards (1–2)
  • Sound Library (K–2, digital)
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All-in-one digital platform

Our comprehensive platform simplifies your day-to-day tasks and makes it easier to plan and deliver lessons.

  • Ready-made and customizable Presentation Screens
  • Auto-scored digital assessments
  • Standards-based reporting
  • Assignable skill-building games
  • Sound Library
  • eReaders

Professional Development

Move beyond traditional program training with Amplify’s digital PD Library, designed to fully support your shift to the Science of Reading and Amplify CKLA. Deepen your understanding with:

  • Program and planning resources
  • Model lesson videos from real classrooms
  • Guidance on using Amplify’s literacy suite to provide multi-tiered support
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“Teachers love the ease of implementing the program, and students have fun while learning. Growth is evident in our data, and we have the support of Amplify experts who are available to answer questions and provide top-notch professional development.”

Bridget Vaughan, District K–8 Coordinator of ELA and Literacy

Quincy Public Schools, Massachusetts

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A true Science of Reading early literacy suite for Grades K–5

Amplify has combined the critical elements of a Science of Reading system: assessment, core curriculum, personalized learning, and intervention. Based on 20 years of experience with the Science of Reading, this complete system saves you time and aligns your literacy practices.

  • Assess with mCLASS®: A universal and dyslexia screener, powered by DIBELS 8th Edition
  • Instruct with Amplify CKLA: Core curriculum to build foundational skills and knowledge
  • Practice with Boost Reading™: Personalized learning program to extend and reinforce core
  • Intervene with mCLASS Intervention: Staff-led Tier 2 and 3 intervention for intensive support
“There were other programs that claimed to be [based on the] Science of Reading, but no other vendor provided the suite of products together. We did not want to be picking from here, picking from there. [Amplify’s literacy suite] met our needs, because it aligned and provided us the best suite of products, hands down.”

Nicole Peterson, Principal, Midway Middle School

Sampson County Schools, North Carolina

Language Studio: Multilingual and English language learner support

Language Studio is Amplify CKLA’s dedicated K–5 program for multilingual and English language learners. Through daily 30-minute lessons, it strengthens reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills while reinforcing core instruction. This tailored support empowers students to confidently access grade-level content as they develop academic English.

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Explore more programs in Amplify’s literacy and biliteracy suite.

All of the programs in our literacy suite and our biliteracy suite are designed to support and complement each other. Learn more about our related programs:

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Amplify Caminos

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Boost Reading

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mCLASS

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