We recognize and respect the unique differences of each of our partnering districts—and that includes San Francisco USD.
Out of the box, Amplify Caminos offers districts a rich, comprehensive, research-based SELA experience. That said, no two districts are exactly alike. To that end, we are committed to working with San Francisco USD to ensure that Amplify Caminos addresses the needs of your community. This includes providing implementation guidance and support, as well as collaborating with your staff to determine which domains need to be modified or exchanged.
What is Amplify Caminos?
Amplify Caminos is a core Spanish language arts program for grades TK–5 that delivers:
Authentic instruction built from the ground up for the Spanish language.
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.
Watch the video below to learn more about Amplify Caminos for Grades K–2.
Watch the video below to learn more about Amplify Caminos for Grades 3–5.
How does Amplify Caminos work?
Amplify Caminos is built on the science of how kids learn to read—in Spanish.
Amplify Caminos is all about helping you teach students how to read, all while giving them authentic and engaging reasons to read. That’s why Amplify Caminos develops foundational skills and builds knowledge in tandem.
Knowledge: Through complex and authentic Spanish read-alouds with an emphasis on classroom interactivity, oral comprehension, and contextual vocabulary, students start to build their awareness of the world around them—and the way the reading skills they’re building give them access to it.
Skills: Starting with the sounds at the core of the Spanish language, students practice their phonemic awareness, handwriting skills, vocabulary, spelling, and grammar. Through daily practice, students become aware of the connection between reading and writing, building confidence as they go.
Respecting the development differences between grade ranges, Amplify Caminos teaches foundational skills and background knowledge as two distinct strands in grades K–2, and combines them into one integrated strand in grades 3–5.
Grades K–2: Every day, students in grades K–2 complete one full lesson that explicitly and systematically builds foundational reading skills in the Amplify Caminos Lectoescritura strand, as well as one full lesson that builds robust background knowledge to access complex text in the Amplify Caminos Conocimiento strand. Through learning in each of these strands, students develop the early literacy skills necessary to help them become confident readers and build the context to understand what they’re reading.
Grades 3–5: In grades 3–5, the Amplify Caminos Lectoescritura and Conocimiento strands are integrated in one set of instructional materials. Lessons begin to combine skills and knowledge with increasingly complex texts, close reading, and a greater writing emphasis. Students can then use their skills to go on their own independent reading adventures.
What do Amplify Caminos students explore?
Amplify Caminos builds students’ knowledge about the world.
In addition to teaching all students to crack the written code (which is vital for equity), the Amplify Caminos program helps students see the strengths and experiences we all share while celebrating their own unique identities and experiences.
This is accomplished through the exploration of topics and text that feature people who resemble students and familiar situations or experiences while also exposing them to people whose appearances, lives, beliefs, and backgrounds differ from their own.
Engaging domains
Amplify Caminos builds knowledge coherently across subjects and grades.
Throughout the program, students use their skills to explore domains that relate to storytelling, science, and the history of our world as seen through the eyes of many different groups.
Carefully selected to build from year-to-year, our grade-appropriate topics help students make and deepen connections while also reading, writing, and thinking creatively and for themselves.
New Knowledge Research Units for Grades K–5
Our brand-new Knowledge Research units carry forward Amplify Caminos’ powerful and proven instructional approach while also:
Adding more diversity. The rich topics and highly visual components featured in these units provide students with even more “windows and mirrors” and perspectives as they work to build knowledge.
Adding more authentic literature. Each new research unit revolves around a collection of high-interest authentic trade books that will spark more curiosity and inspire more inquiry.
Adding more flexibility. Units can be implemented for extended core instruction during flex periods, district-designated Pausing Points, or enrichment periods.
Units cover a variety of rich and relevant topics:
With these new units, students will soar to new heights with Dr. Ellen Ochoa, Amelia Earhart, and the Tuskegee Airmen. They’ll feel the rhythm as they learn about Jazz legends Miles Davis, Tito Puente, and Duke Ellington. And they’ll explore the far reaches of the world with Jacques Cousteau, Matthew Henson, and Eugenie Clark.
Grade K: El arte y el mundo que nos rodea
Grade 1: Cuentos de aventuras: relatos desde los confines de la Tierra
Grade 2: ¡A volar! La era de la aviación
Grade 3: Jazz y más
Grade 4: Energía: pasado, presente y futuro
Grade 5: Más allá de Juneteenth: de 1865 al presente
Units will be made available in English and Spanish, and will include the following components:
Why we added this unit: “Every child is an artist,” said Picasso, meaning that every child uses art to explore and understand the world around them. El arte y el mundo que nos rodea honors that truth by introducing Kindergarten students to some of the ways in which artists have explored and understood the world around them.
This domain introduces students to artists from different time periods, countries, and cultures. Throughout the unit, students learn about different kinds of art and how artists use the world around them as they make art. They also connect this to what they have already learned about the earth, plants, and animals in other Caminos domains: Granjas, Plantas, and Cuidar el planeta Tierra. In addition, students connect this to what they have learned about sculptors in the Presidentes y símbolos de los Estados Unidos domain. As they explore different artists and artistic traditions, they develop their ideas about how humans are connected to each other and to the world around them.
As you read the texts in this unit, students may observe ways in which the characters or subjects are both similar to and different from students. This is a good opportunity to teach students awareness and sensitivity, building on the idea that all people share some things in common, even as they have other things that make them unique. This unit also offers an excellent opportunity to collaborate with your school’s art teacher, as many lessons have suggested activities to help students understand the kind of art they are studying.
Within this unit, students have opportunities to:
Use details to describe art.
Identify three ways to create art.
Identify characteristics of cave art.
Sequence the steps of making pottery.
Describe how artists can create work connected to the world around them.
Describe what makes Kehinde Wiley’s portraits unique.
Explain how the texture of a surface can affect artwork created on it.
Explain what a sculpture is.
Describe what makes James Turrell’s artwork about the sky unique.
Explain what a museum is and what kinds of things you can see or do there.
Trade books in this unit: Instruction in this unit revolves around the following collection of high-interest authentic trade books. One copy of each trade book is included with the unit materials.
Georgia O’Keeffe por Erica Salcedo
Yayoi Kusama: De aquí al infinito por Sarah Suzuki
Tejedora del arcoíris por Linda Elovitz Marshall
Las tijeras de Matisse por Jeanette Winter
El museo por Susan Verde
Quizás algo hermoso: Cómo el arte transformó un barrio por F. Isabel Campoy
Sample materials: Take a sneak peek at the rich instruction and engaging activities for this unit by viewing the PDFs below.
Why we added this unit: This domain introduces students to adventure stories set around the world and challenges students to dig into the adventures through research. By listening to the Read-Alouds and trade books, students increase their vocabulary and reading comprehension skills, learn valuable lessons about perseverance and teamwork, and become familiar with gathering information for research.
In this unit, students study the careers of real-world explorers Dr. Eugenie Clark and Sophia Danenberg, marvel at the inventions of Jacques Cousteau, think critically about how teamwork and collaboration can make greater adventures possible, learn about the science and technology that enable adventures, and research some of the ways humans have confronted challenges at the edges of the world, from the oceans below to space above.
Each lesson in the domain builds students’ research skills as they ask questions, gather information, and write a paragraph about their findings. Students share what they have learned about adventures in an Adventure Gallery Walkthrough. By taking on the persona of one of the adventurers they meet in the Read-Alouds and trade books, students deliver their final paragraphs as if they are a “speaking portrait” of that person. Students are invited to dress up as that adventurer if they desire.
In addition, teachers can set aside time outside the instructional block to create the picture frames students will hold as they present to the Adventure Gallery Walk guests. Frames can be made from shirt boxes, cardboard, construction paper, or any art supplies that are on hand. This might be an opportunity to collaborate with the school’s art department if resources are available. Another option is to ask students to make their frames at home with their caregivers. On the day of the Adventure Gallery Walk, students will be the hosts and take on specific jobs, such as welcoming the guests, describing their work throughout the unit, and pointing out the areas of study on the domain bulletin board. You can find a complete list of student jobs in Lesson 13.
How this unit builds knowledge: This unit builds upon the following Caminos units that students will have encountered in the previous grade.
Rimas y fábulas infantiles (Kindergarten)
Cuentos (Kindergarten)
The specific core content targeted in these domains is particularly relevant to the Read-Alouds students will hear in Cuentos de aventuras: relatos desde los confines de la Tierra. The background knowledge students bring to this unit will greatly enhance their understanding of the trade books used in this unit.
Trade books in this unit: Instruction in this unit revolves around the following collection of high-interest authentic trade books. One copy of each trade book is included with the unit materials.
My Name Is Gabito/Me llamo Gabito por Monica Brown
Galápagos Girl/Galapagueña por Marsha Diane Arnold
My Name Is Gabriela/Me llamo Gabriela por Monica Brown
El viaje de Kalak por María Quintana Silva y Marie-Noëlle Hébert
Señorita Mariposa por Ben Gundersheimer
Sharuko, el arqueólogo peruano/Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello por Monica Brown
Abuelita fue al mercado por Stella Blackstone
Sample materials: Take a sneak peek at the rich instruction and engaging activities for this unit by viewing the PDFs below.
Why we added this unit: With this domain, students head up, up, and away with an introduction to the soaring history of aviation. Students learn the stories of early aviators, such as the Montgolfier brothers, the Wright brothers, Aida de Acosta, and Amelia Earhart.
During the unit, students study the science of flight, including the physics concept of lift, and research the social impacts of the world of flight. Finally, students let their research skills take flight as they explore key figures from the world of aviation.
The lessons in this domain build on earlier Grade 2 Caminos domains about the westward expansion, early Greek civilizations, and Greek myths, and lay the foundation for learning about other periods of world history in future grades.
How this unit builds knowledge: This unit builds upon the following Caminos units that students will have encountered earlier in the year.
La civilización griega antigua (Grade 2)
Mitos griegos (Grade 2)
La expansión hacia el oeste (Grade 2)
The specific core content targeted in these domains is particularly relevant to the Read-Alouds students will hear in ¡A volar! La era de la aviación. The background knowledge students bring to this unit will greatly enhance their understanding of the trade books used in this unit.
Trade books in this unit: Instruction in this unit revolves around the following collection of high-interest authentic trade books. One copy of each trade book is included with the unit materials.
¡A volar! Todo sobre aviones por Jennifer Prior
Amelia sabe volar por Mara dal Corso
Héroes de la aviación que cambiaron el mundo por Dan Green
El niño que alcanzó las estrellas por José M. Hernández
La niña que aprendió a volar por Sylvia Acevedo
Buenas Noches Capitán Mamá por Graciela Tiscareño-Sato
Sample materials: Take a sneak peek at the rich instruction and engaging activities for this unit by viewing the PDFs below.
Why we added this unit: This domain teaches students about the vibrant music, poetry, and culture of the Jazz Age in the United States. Students learn about famous writers and musicians like Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Melba Liston, Tito Puente, and Miles Davis. They study how the jazz art form took root in the South, then spread to the North to become the sound of the Harlem Renaissance, eventually connecting people around the world in musical expression.
During this unit, students perform guided research to further explore both the history of jazz and what jazz is today. They develop research skills and then use those skills to find deeper connections between the stories and music of the Jazz Age and music today. As students learn about the world of jazz, they collaborate and share ideas with their classmates. They also practice sharing feedback focused on their written work, and, at the end of the unit, students present their research to the group.
The lessons give students opportunities to dive into the rhythms and stories of jazz, utilizing the knowledge sequence in this unit to:
Collaboratively generate research questions about jazz, jazz musicians, contemporary musicians from the state where they live or have lived, and the evolution of jazz music.
Utilize Read-Alouds, independent reading, and partner reading to learn about the Jazz Age, the Harlem Renaissance, jazz music, and biographies of celebrated jazz musicians and writers.
Research the answers to their generated questions, gather information, write a short research essay about a famous jazz musician, write a short essay about a contemporary musician from the state where they live or have lived, and give a presentation about their research.
How this unit builds knowledge: Within this unit, students have opportunities to:
Ask relevant questions and make pertinent comments
Identify details in texts
Determine key ideas of texts by evaluating details
Make text-based inferences
Generate questions based on prior knowledge and gathered information
Synthesize details across texts to demonstrate comprehension
Discuss and explain an author’s purpose
Identify and cite reliable primary and secondary sources of information
Compose a well-organized and focused informative essay
Make connections between topics
Present information using appropriate media
Trade books in this unit: Instruction in this unit revolves around the following collection of high-interest authentic trade books. One copy of each trade book is included with the unit materials.
¡Esquivel! Un artista del sonido de la era espacial por Susan Wood
Ray Charles por Sharon Bell Mathis
Tito Puente, el Rey del Mambo por Monica Brown
Me llamo Celia, la vida de Celia Cruz por Monica Brown
¡Azúcar! por Ivar Da Coll
In this unit, students also read the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes. (Available for free through the Academy of American Poets website and the Poetry Foundation website, with recorded audio available through the website for John Hancock College Preparatory High School.)
Sample materials: Take a sneak peek at the rich instruction and engaging activities for this unit by viewing the PDFs below.
Why we added this unit: With this domain, students become tomorrow’s problem solvers in this study of energy in the United States. Analytical reading skills are developed by examining the challenges of early energy innovators. Students then read about current energy practices and young energy change-makers across the world.
Throughout the unit, students conduct research into different sources of energy and present a proposal, putting them in the shoes of future energy innovators. They also use the knowledge sequence in this unit to:
Collaboratively analyze texts to identify cause-effect and problem-solution relationships.
Generate questions and conduct research about energy.
Write an opinion essay making their case for a fuel of the future.
Create energy proposals using primary and secondary resources.
How this unit builds knowledge: This unit builds upon the following Caminos units that students will have encountered in previous grades as well as earlier in the year.
Plantas (Grade K)
La historia de la Tierra (Grade 1)
¡Eureka! Estudiante inventor (Grade 4)
The specific core content targeted in these domains is particularly relevant to the Read-Alouds students will hear in Energía: pasado, presente y futuro. The background knowledge students bring to this unit will greatly enhance their understanding of the trade books used in this unit.
Trade books in this unit: Instruction in this unit revolves around the following collection of high-interest authentic trade books. One copy of each trade book is included with the unit materials.
La historia de los combustibles fósiles por William B. Rice
El niño que domó el viento por William Kamkwamba y Bryan Mealer
Sample materials: Take a sneak peek at the rich instruction and engaging activities for this unit by viewing the PDFs below.
Why we added this unit: Within this domain, Students learn about General Granger’s announcement in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, a day marked in history as Juneteenth. Texts and multimedia sources will support foundational knowledge-building about the end of slavery in the United States. A review of the first freedom announcement, President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, provides students with background knowledge to further emphasize the significance of Juneteenth in American history.
This unit also takes students on a journey beyond Juneteenth, as they study specific contributions of African Americans from 1865 to the present day. Students participate in a virtual field trip to Emancipation Park in Houston, Texas and use the knowledge sequence in this unit to:
Collaboratively generate research questions about Juneteenth, The Great Migration, innovators and inventors, education, the humanities, activists, and allies.
Use Read-Alouds, independent, and partner reading to learn about African American contributions from 1865 to the present.
Research to find answers to their generated questions, gather information, and write a four-chapter Beyond Juneteenth book.
How this unit builds knowledge: This unit builds upon the following Caminos units that students will have encountered in previous grades.
Los nativos americanos (Grade K)
Una nueva nación: la independencia de los Estados Unidos (Grade 1)
La Guerra Civil de los Estaods Unidos (Grade 2)
La inmigración (Grade 2)
Los nativos americanos (Grade 5)
The specific core content targeted in these domains is particularly relevant to the Read-Alouds students will hear in Más allá de Juneteenth: de 1865 al presente . The background knowledge students bring to this unit will greatly enhance their understanding of the trade books used in this unit.
Trade books in this unit: Instruction in this unit revolves around the following collection of high-interest authentic trade books. One copy of each trade book is included with the unit materials.
Martí’s Song for Freedom/Martí y sus versos por la libertad escrito por Emma Otheguy
¡Celebremos Juneteenth! escrito por Carole Boston Weatherford
Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez/La Historia de Dolores Huerta y César Chávez escrito por Monica Brown
Canto de alabanza para el día: Poema para la ceremonia inaugural del mandato de Barack Obama escrito por Elizabeth Alexander, traducido por Rodrigo Rojas
Sample materials: Take a sneak peek at the rich instruction and engaging activities for this unit by viewing the PDFs below.
Amplify Caminos puts a variety of texts in the hands of students every day.
Amplify Caminos includes both transadaptations and authentic texts written by Latin American and Spanish authors. In addition to featuring a diverse range of authors and topics, our texts represent individuals and characters with a broad range of identity factors, including socioeconomic status, age, ability, race, ethnicity, country of origin, religion, and more.
Amplify Caminos texts include:
Authentic literature: Authentic literature exposes students to a variety of text types and perspectives to deepen their knowledge of fascinating topics in social studies, science, literature, and the arts. Authentic texts support text-to-self, text-to-world, and text-to-text connections for readers.
Decodable Student Readers: Amplify Caminos is built on the conviction that equitable instruction is vital to an effective program. Decodable Student Readers at grades K–2 are newly re-designed to celebrate students’ diverse experiences and feature individuals with a broad range of identity factors, including socioeconomic status, age, ability, race, ethnicity, country of origin, religion, and more.
ReadWorks® texts: Amplify and ReadWorks have partnered to deliver high-quality texts curated to support the Amplify Caminos Knowledge Sequence and to extend student learning. Texts include high-interest nonfiction articles in topics in social studies, science, literature, and the arts. These texts are accompanied by vocabulary supports and standards-aligned formative assessment opportunities. Teachers can monitor their students’ progress using the ReadWorks reporting features.
Amplify Caminos Trade Book Collection Guide
Each book in our authentic literature collection was selected specifically to support and enhance the content of the K-2 Conocimiento Strand. These anchor texts are intended for use as an introduction to each domain—engaging students, piquing their curiosity, and building initial background knowledge—before diving into the deeper content of the domain Read-Alouds.
Every trade book has an instructional guide that includes the following:
Author and illustrator
Book summary
The Essential Question of the Knowledge domain, connecting the book to the domain
Key Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary words found in the book
A group activity to reinforce and extend students’ knowledge and understanding
A performance task to help gauge students’ comprehension of concepts in the text
Writing prompts to expand understanding and critical thinking
Text complexity ratings and descriptors for quantitative, qualitative, and reader/task categories
Detailed information about text complexity ratings and descriptors; additional uses for the books before, during, and after domain instruction; and the complete list of domains and books for each grade level can be found in the More About the Books section of this guide.
What makes Amplify Caminos different?
Built on the Science of Reading
Built out of the latest research in the Science of Reading, Amplify Caminos delivers explicit instruction in both foundational literacy skills (systematic phonics, decoding, and fluency) and background knowledge in grades K–2 with an integrated approach to explicit instruction in grades 3–5.
Explicit systematic skills instruction
The skills instruction in Amplify Caminos was distinctly developed with the Spanish language in mind. Its foundational lessons are specific to the language, rather than a direct translation from Amplify CKLA’s English skills instruction.
Reading instruction begins with the vowels first, then the most common consonants, and finally the least common consonants. Students will blend and segment sounds to form syllables, and syllables to form words.
Although Spanish has a highly predictable orthography, there are a few silent letters (h is always silent, u is silent after g or q), as well as letters that can make different sounds, depending on the letters that follow them. For that reason, syllables with these letters are taught somewhat later in the progression. The same is true for syllables with infrequently occurring consonants, such as z, k, x, and w.
Coherent knowledge instruction
While students are learning how to read, the Conocimiento strand gives them authentic and engaging reasons to read.
Amplify Caminos uses spiral learning to reinforce every student’s ability to develop skills like reading, writing, speaking, and listening in Spanish that can be transferred to English. As students engage with their lessons, they explore the similarities and differences in grammar, vocabulary, writing, and language use between Spanish and English. This bridge helps students learning two languages to strengthen their knowledge in both.
Through cross-curricular content, students explore units that relate to storytelling, science, and the history of our world in a holistic and thoughtful way. With these units, you’ll bring the world to your students, showing them how reading can become an exciting, rewarding, and useful part of their lives.
Embedded differentiation for all learners
Amplify Caminos provides built-in differentiation strategies and supports in every lesson.
Apoyo a la enseñanza y desafío: Support and Challenge suggestions in every lesson provide assistance or opportunities for more advanced work toward the goal of the lesson.
Notas culturales: These point-of-use notes provide additional information about the traditions, foods, holidays, word variations, and more from across the Spanish-speaking world.
Apoyo adicional: Every lesson in the Lectoescritura (Skills) Strand provides additional support activities suggested to reinforce foundational skills instruction. These activities can be given to any student who requires extra help, including students with special needs.
Systematic and cohesive writing instruction
Writing instruction in Amplify Caminos builds systematically and cohesively within and across grades.
In Grades K-2, writing mechanics—including handwriting and spelling—are taught in the Amplify Caminos Lectoescritura strand. Starting in Grade 1, instruction includes four steps in the writing process: planning, drafting, editing, and publishing and features lessons that have modeling, collaboration, and sharing. As students gain skills and confidence, they are able to take on more of these steps independently. Students learn to use planning techniques, including brainstorming and graphic organizers.
Beginning in Grade 4, the Amplify Caminos writing process expands to also include sharing and evaluating. In Grades 4 and 5, the writing process is no longer conceptualized as a series of scaffolded, linear steps (an important change from the Grade 3 writing process). Rather, students move between components of the writing process in a flexible manner, similar to the process mature and experienced writers follow naturally.
Amplify Caminos’ writing instruction provides a clear progression through the text types in each grade.
Because Amplify Caminos has two strands of lessons in Grades K-2, Lectoescritura and Conocimiento, students are exposed to both narrative and informational texts throughout the year. In Grades 3-5, the integrated units feature study in literary, informational, or a mix of both types of texts, depending on the content of the unit.
Grades K–2 introduce and establish the key elements of each text type, allowing students to gain comfort and confidence writing narratives, opinions, and informative texts. This enables students to practice thinking about content in different ways, offering more depth and breadth to their understanding of core content and of the writing text types.
By Grade 3, students will have gained significant practice in narrative, opinion/argumentative, and informational/explanatory forms of writing and will continue to apply those skills through Grade 5.
How does Amplify Caminos integrate with the other parts of the literacy system?
Amplify Caminos + mCLASS® Lectura
Achieve complete parity between English and Spanish assessments with mCLASS Lectura for K–6. mCLASS Lectura allows teachers to connect with their Spanish-speaking students face-to-face, one-on-one, and in the language most comfortable to them. The result? Valid and reliable student data reports available in both English and Spanish, enabling teachers to pinpoint where their Spanish-speaking or emergent bilingual students really are in their skill development and what instruction to prioritize.
Amplify Caminos + Amplify Reading
Amplify Reading is an engaging, adaptive digital program that extends the learning in Amplify Caminos. Amplify Reading offers support to a large sub-group of English learners (ELs) through Spanish voice-over. Spanish voiceover instructions are available in vocabulary and sentence-level comprehension games so ELs can build their vocabulary, language, and critical comprehension skills before moving into analyzing complex texts
Demo access and sample materials
Ready to explore on your own? First, watch the videos below to learn about the program’s components and how to navigate the digital platform.
Physical materials walkthrough video
Digital navigation video
Demo access
Next, follow the instructions below to access your demo account.
Click the CKLA and Caminos Demo button below.
Select Log in with Amplify.
To explore as a teacher, enter this username: t1.sfusdreviewer@demo.tryamplify.net
To explore as a student, enter this username: s1.sfusdreviewer@demo.tryamplify.net
Enter the password: Amplify1-sfusdreviewer
Click the Programs and apps menu
Select CKLA Teacher Resource Site
Select the desire grade level
Use the toggle to switch between English (CKLA) and Spanish (Caminos) resources.
Finally, click on the grade levels below to explore your requested sample units.
Each book in our authentic literature collection was selected specifically to support and enhance the content of the K-2 Conocimiento Strand. These anchor texts are intended for use as an introduction to each domain—engaging students, piquing their curiosity, and building initial background knowledge—before diving into the deeper content of the domain Read-Alouds.
Every trade book has an instructional guide that includes the following:
Author and illustrator
Book summary
The Essential Question of the Knowledge domain, connecting the book to the domain
Key Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary words found in the book
A group activity to reinforce and extend students’ knowledge and understanding
A performance task to help gauge students’ comprehension of concepts in the text
Writing prompts to expand understanding and critical thinking
Text complexity ratings and descriptors for quantitative, qualitative, and reader/task categories
Download the Amplify Caminos Trade Book Collection Guide for Grades K–2. Detailed information about text complexity ratings and descriptors; additional uses for the books before, during, and after domain instruction; and the complete list of domains and books for each grade level can be found in the More About the Books section of this guide.
Amplify Caminos is an authentic elementary Spanish language arts program. Like its English language counterpart, Amplify CKLA, Amplify Caminos provides explicit, systematic foundational skills instruction sequenced with deep knowledge-building content to foster comprehension. When used with Amplify CKLA, Amplify Caminos provides full parity across English and Spanish that’s suitable for any dual language implementation model.
Amplify and SFUSD Partnership
We recognize and respect the unique differences of each of our partnering districts—and that includes San Francisco USD.
Out of the box, Amplify Caminos offers districts a rich, comprehensive, research-based SELA experience. That said, no two districts are exactly alike. To that end, we are committed to working with San Francisco USD to ensure that Amplify Caminos addresses the needs of your community. This includes providing implementation guidance and support, as well as collaborating with your staff to determine which domains need to be modified or exchanged.
What is Amplify Caminos?
Amplify Caminos is a core Spanish language arts program for grades TK–5 that delivers:
Authentic instruction built from the ground up for the Spanish language.
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.
Watch the video below to learn more about Amplify Caminos for Grades K–2.
Watch the video below to learn more about Amplify Caminos for Grades 3–5.
How does Amplify Caminos work?
Amplify Caminos is built on the science of how kids learn to read—in Spanish.
Amplify Caminos is all about helping you teach students how to read, all while giving them authentic and engaging reasons to read. That’s why Amplify Caminos develops foundational skills and builds knowledge in tandem.
Knowledge: Through complex and authentic Spanish read-alouds with an emphasis on classroom interactivity, oral comprehension, and contextual vocabulary, students start to build their awareness of the world around them—and the way the reading skills they’re building give them access to it.
Skills: Starting with the sounds at the core of the Spanish language, students practice their phonemic awareness, handwriting skills, vocabulary, spelling, and grammar. Through daily practice, students become aware of the connection between reading and writing, building confidence as they go.
Respecting the development differences between grade ranges, Amplify Caminos teaches foundational skills and background knowledge as two distinct strands in grades K–2, and combines them into one integrated strand in grades 3–5.
Grades K–2: Every day, students in grades K–2 complete one full lesson that explicitly and systematically builds foundational reading skills in the Amplify Caminos Lectoescritura strand, as well as one full lesson that builds robust background knowledge to access complex text in the Amplify Caminos Conocimiento strand. Through learning in each of these strands, students develop the early literacy skills necessary to help them become confident readers and build the context to understand what they’re reading.
Grades 3–5: In grades 3–5, the Amplify Caminos Lectoescritura and Conocimiento strands are integrated in one set of instructional materials. Lessons begin to combine skills and knowledge with increasingly complex texts, close reading, and a greater writing emphasis. Students can then use their skills to go on their own independent reading adventures.
What do Amplify Caminos students explore?
Amplify Caminos builds students’ knowledge about the world.
In addition to teaching all students to crack the written code (which is vital for fairness), the Amplify Caminos program helps students see the strengths and experiences we all share while celebrating their own unique identities and experiences.
This is accomplished through the exploration of topics and text that feature people who resemble students and familiar situations or experiences while also exposing them to people whose appearances, lives, beliefs, and backgrounds differ from their own.
Engaging domains
Amplify Caminos builds knowledge coherently across subjects and grades.
Throughout the program, students use their skills to explore domains that relate to storytelling, science, and the history of our world as seen through the eyes of many different groups.
Carefully selected to build from year-to-year, our grade-appropriate topics help students make and deepen connections while also reading, writing, and thinking creatively and for themselves.
New Knowledge Research Units for Grades K–5
Our brand-new Knowledge Research units carry forward Amplify Caminos’ powerful and proven instructional approach while also:
Adding more content for students from all walks of life. The rich topics and highly visual components featured in these units provide students with even more “windows and mirrors” and perspectives as they work to build knowledge.
Adding more authentic literature. Each new research unit revolves around a collection of high-interest authentic trade books that will spark more curiosity and inspire more inquiry.
Adding more flexibility. Units can be implemented for extended core instruction during flex periods, district-designated Pausing Points, or enrichment periods.
Units cover a variety of rich and relevant topics:
With these new units, students will soar to new heights with Dr. Ellen Ochoa, Amelia Earhart, and the Tuskegee Airmen. They’ll feel the rhythm as they learn about Jazz legends Miles Davis, Tito Puente, and Duke Ellington. And they’ll explore the far reaches of the world with Jacques Cousteau, Matthew Henson, and Eugenie Clark.
Grade K: El arte y el mundo que nos rodea
Grade 1: Cuentos de aventuras: relatos desde los confines de la Tierra
Grade 2: ¡A volar! La era de la aviación
Grade 3: Jazz y más
Grade 4: Energía: pasado, presente y futuro
Grade 5: Más allá de Juneteenth: de 1865 al presente
Units will be made available in English and Spanish, and will include the following components:
Teacher Guide
Student Activity Books
Image Cards
Trade Book Collection
Digital Components (for Grades K–3 and Grade 5 only)
Why we added this unit: “Every child is an artist,” said Picasso, meaning that every child uses art to explore and understand the world around them. El arte y el mundo que nos rodea honors that truth by introducing Kindergarten students to some of the ways in which artists have explored and understood the world around them.
This domain introduces students to artists from different time periods, countries, and cultures. Throughout the unit, students learn about different kinds of art and how artists use the world around them as they make art. They also connect this to what they have already learned about the earth, plants, and animals in other Caminos domains: Granjas, Plantas, and Cuidar el planeta Tierra. In addition, students connect this to what they have learned about sculptors in the Presidentes y símbolos de los Estados Unidos domain. As they explore different artists and artistic traditions, they develop their ideas about how humans are connected to each other and to the world around them.
As you read the texts in this unit, students may observe ways in which the characters or subjects are both similar to and different from students. This is a good opportunity to teach students awareness and sensitivity, building on the idea that all people share some things in common, even as they have other things that make them unique. This unit also offers an excellent opportunity to collaborate with your school’s art teacher, as many lessons have suggested activities to help students understand the kind of art they are studying.
Within this unit, students have opportunities to:
Use details to describe art.
Identify three ways to create art.
Identify characteristics of cave art.
Sequence the steps of making pottery.
Describe how artists can create work connected to the world around them.
Describe what makes Kehinde Wiley’s portraits unique.
Explain how the texture of a surface can affect artwork created on it.
Explain what a sculpture is.
Describe what makes James Turrell’s artwork about the sky unique.
Explain what a museum is and what kinds of things you can see or do there.
Trade books in this unit: Instruction in this unit revolves around the following collection of high-interest authentic trade books. One copy of each trade book is included with the unit materials.
Georgia O’Keeffe por Erica Salcedo
Yayoi Kusama: De aquí al infinito por Sarah Suzuki
Tejedora del arcoíris por Linda Elovitz Marshall
Las tijeras de Matisse por Jeanette Winter
El museo por Susan Verde
Quizás algo hermoso: Cómo el arte transformó un barrio por F. Isabel Campoy
Sample materials: Take a sneak peek at the rich instruction and engaging activities for this unit by viewing the PDFs below.
Why we added this unit: This domain introduces students to adventure stories set around the world and challenges students to dig into the adventures through research. By listening to the Read-Alouds and trade books, students increase their vocabulary and reading comprehension skills, learn valuable lessons about perseverance and teamwork, and become familiar with gathering information for research.
In this unit, students study the careers of real-world explorers Dr. Eugenie Clark and Sophia Danenberg, marvel at the inventions of Jacques Cousteau, think critically about how teamwork and collaboration can make greater adventures possible, learn about the science and technology that enable adventures, and research some of the ways humans have confronted challenges at the edges of the world, from the oceans below to space above.
Each lesson in the domain builds students’ research skills as they ask questions, gather information, and write a paragraph about their findings. Students share what they have learned about adventures in an Adventure Gallery Walkthrough. By taking on the persona of one of the adventurers they meet in the Read-Alouds and trade books, students deliver their final paragraphs as if they are a “speaking portrait” of that person. Students are invited to dress up as that adventurer if they desire.
In addition, teachers can set aside time outside the instructional block to create the picture frames students will hold as they present to the Adventure Gallery Walk guests. Frames can be made from shirt boxes, cardboard, construction paper, or any art supplies that are on hand. This might be an opportunity to collaborate with the school’s art department if resources are available. Another option is to ask students to make their frames at home with their caregivers. On the day of the Adventure Gallery Walk, students will be the hosts and take on specific jobs, such as welcoming the guests, describing their work throughout the unit, and pointing out the areas of study on the domain bulletin board. You can find a complete list of student jobs in Lesson 13.
How this unit builds knowledge: This unit builds upon the following Caminos units that students will have encountered in the previous grade.
Rimas y fábulas infantiles (Kindergarten)
Cuentos (Kindergarten)
The specific core content targeted in these domains is particularly relevant to the Read-Alouds students will hear in Cuentos de aventuras: relatos desde los confines de la Tierra. The background knowledge students bring to this unit will greatly enhance their understanding of the trade books used in this unit.
Trade books in this unit: Instruction in this unit revolves around the following collection of high-interest authentic trade books. One copy of each trade book is included with the unit materials.
My Name Is Gabito/Me llamo Gabito por Monica Brown
Galápagos Girl/Galapagueña por Marsha Diane Arnold
My Name Is Gabriela/Me llamo Gabriela por Monica Brown
El viaje de Kalak por María Quintana Silva y Marie-Noëlle Hébert
Señorita Mariposa por Ben Gundersheimer
Sharuko, el arqueólogo peruano/Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello por Monica Brown
Abuelita fue al mercado por Stella Blackstone
Sample materials: Take a sneak peek at the rich instruction and engaging activities for this unit by viewing the PDFs below.
Why we added this unit: With this domain, students head up, up, and away with an introduction to the soaring history of aviation. Students learn the stories of early aviators, such as the Montgolfier brothers, the Wright brothers, Aida de Acosta, and Amelia Earhart.
During the unit, students study the science of flight, including the physics concept of lift, and research the social impacts of the world of flight. Finally, students let their research skills take flight as they explore key figures from the world of aviation.
The lessons in this domain build on earlier Grade 2 Caminos domains about the westward expansion, early Greek civilizations, and Greek myths, and lay the foundation for learning about other periods of world history in future grades.
How this unit builds knowledge: This unit builds upon the following Caminos units that students will have encountered earlier in the year.
La civilización griega antigua (Grade 2)
Mitos griegos (Grade 2)
La expansión hacia el oeste (Grade 2)
The specific core content targeted in these domains is particularly relevant to the Read-Alouds students will hear in ¡A volar! La era de la aviación. The background knowledge students bring to this unit will greatly enhance their understanding of the trade books used in this unit.
Trade books in this unit: Instruction in this unit revolves around the following collection of high-interest authentic trade books. One copy of each trade book is included with the unit materials.
¡A volar! Todo sobre aviones por Jennifer Prior
Amelia sabe volar por Mara dal Corso
Héroes de la aviación que cambiaron el mundo por Dan Green
El niño que alcanzó las estrellas por José M. Hernández
La niña que aprendió a volar por Sylvia Acevedo
Buenas Noches Capitán Mamá por Graciela Tiscareño-Sato
Sample materials: Take a sneak peek at the rich instruction and engaging activities for this unit by viewing the PDFs below.
Why we added this unit: This domain teaches students about the vibrant music, poetry, and culture of the Jazz Age in the United States. Students learn about famous writers and musicians like Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Melba Liston, Tito Puente, and Miles Davis. They study how the jazz art form took root in the South, then spread to the North to become the sound of the Harlem Renaissance, eventually connecting people around the world in musical expression.
During this unit, students perform guided research to further explore both the history of jazz and what jazz is today. They develop research skills and then use those skills to find deeper connections between the stories and music of the Jazz Age and music today. As students learn about the world of jazz, they collaborate and share ideas with their classmates. They also practice sharing feedback focused on their written work, and, at the end of the unit, students present their research to the group.
The lessons give students opportunities to dive into the rhythms and stories of jazz, utilizing the knowledge sequence in this unit to:
Collaboratively generate research questions about jazz, jazz musicians, contemporary musicians from the state where they live or have lived, and the evolution of jazz music.
Utilize Read-Alouds, independent reading, and partner reading to learn about the Jazz Age, the Harlem Renaissance, jazz music, and biographies of celebrated jazz musicians and writers.
Research the answers to their generated questions, gather information, write a short research essay about a famous jazz musician, write a short essay about a contemporary musician from the state where they live or have lived, and give a presentation about their research.
How this unit builds knowledge: Within this unit, students have opportunities to:
Ask relevant questions and make pertinent comments
Identify details in texts
Determine key ideas of texts by evaluating details
Make text-based inferences
Generate questions based on prior knowledge and gathered information
Synthesize details across texts to demonstrate comprehension
Discuss and explain an author’s purpose
Identify and cite reliable primary and secondary sources of information
Compose a well-organized and focused informative essay
Make connections between topics
Present information using appropriate media
Trade books in this unit: Instruction in this unit revolves around the following collection of high-interest authentic trade books. One copy of each trade book is included with the unit materials.
¡Esquivel! Un artista del sonido de la era espacial por Susan Wood
Ray Charles por Sharon Bell Mathis
Tito Puente, el Rey del Mambo por Monica Brown
Me llamo Celia, la vida de Celia Cruz por Monica Brown
¡Azúcar! por Ivar Da Coll
In this unit, students also read the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes. (Available for free through the Academy of American Poets website and the Poetry Foundation website, with recorded audio available through the website for John Hancock College Preparatory High School.)
Sample materials: Take a sneak peek at the rich instruction and engaging activities for this unit by viewing the PDFs below.
Why we added this unit: With this domain, students become tomorrow’s problem solvers in this study of energy in the United States. Analytical reading skills are developed by examining the challenges of early energy innovators. Students then read about current energy practices and young energy change-makers across the world.
Throughout the unit, students conduct research into different sources of energy and present a proposal, putting them in the shoes of future energy innovators. They also use the knowledge sequence in this unit to:
Collaboratively analyze texts to identify cause-effect and problem-solution relationships.
Generate questions and conduct research about energy.
Write an opinion essay making their case for a fuel of the future.
Create energy proposals using primary and secondary resources.
How this unit builds knowledge: This unit builds upon the following Caminos units that students will have encountered in previous grades as well as earlier in the year.
Plantas (Grade K)
La historia de la Tierra (Grade 1)
¡Eureka! Estudiante inventor (Grade 4)
The specific core content targeted in these domains is particularly relevant to the Read-Alouds students will hear in Energía: pasado, presente y futuro. The background knowledge students bring to this unit will greatly enhance their understanding of the trade books used in this unit.
Trade books in this unit: Instruction in this unit revolves around the following collection of high-interest authentic trade books. One copy of each trade book is included with the unit materials.
La historia de los combustibles fósiles por William B. Rice
El niño que domó el viento por William Kamkwamba y Bryan Mealer
Sample materials: Take a sneak peek at the rich instruction and engaging activities for this unit by viewing the PDFs below.
Why we added this unit: Within this domain, Students learn about General Granger’s announcement in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, a day marked in history as Juneteenth. Texts and multimedia sources will support foundational knowledge-building about the end of slavery in the United States. A review of the first freedom announcement, President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, provides students with background knowledge to further emphasize the significance of Juneteenth in American history.
This unit also takes students on a journey beyond Juneteenth, as they study specific contributions of African Americans from 1865 to the present day. Students participate in a virtual field trip to Emancipation Park in Houston, Texas and use the knowledge sequence in this unit to:
Collaboratively generate research questions about Juneteenth, The Great Migration, innovators and inventors, education, the humanities, activists, and allies.
Use Read-Alouds, independent, and partner reading to learn about African American contributions from 1865 to the present.
Research to find answers to their generated questions, gather information, and write a four-chapter Beyond Juneteenth book.
How this unit builds knowledge: This unit builds upon the following Caminos units that students will have encountered in previous grades.
Los nativos americanos (Grade K)
Una nueva nación: la independencia de los Estados Unidos (Grade 1)
La Guerra Civil de los Estaods Unidos (Grade 2)
La inmigración (Grade 2)
Los nativos americanos (Grade 5)
The specific core content targeted in these domains is particularly relevant to the Read-Alouds students will hear in Más allá de Juneteenth: de 1865 al presente . The background knowledge students bring to this unit will greatly enhance their understanding of the trade books used in this unit.
Trade books in this unit: Instruction in this unit revolves around the following collection of high-interest authentic trade books. One copy of each trade book is included with the unit materials.
Martí’s Song for Freedom/Martí y sus versos por la libertad escrito por Emma Otheguy
¡Celebremos Juneteenth! escrito por Carole Boston Weatherford
Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez/La Historia de Dolores Huerta y César Chávez escrito por Monica Brown
Canto de alabanza para el día: Poema para la ceremonia inaugural del mandato de Barack Obama escrito por Elizabeth Alexander, traducido por Rodrigo Rojas
Sample materials: Take a sneak peek at the rich instruction and engaging activities for this unit by viewing the PDFs below.
Amplify Caminos puts a variety of texts in the hands of students every day.
Amplify Caminos includes both transadaptations and authentic texts written by Latin American and Spanish authors. Our texts feature a wide variety of authors, topics, individuals and characters representing many different socioeconomic statuses, ages, abilities, races, ethnicities, countries of origin, religions, and more.
Amplify Caminos texts include:
Authentic literature: Authentic literature exposes students to a variety of text types and perspectives to deepen their knowledge of fascinating topics in social studies, science, literature, and the arts. Authentic texts support text-to-self, text-to-world, and text-to-text connections for readers.
Decodable Student Readers: Decodable Student Readers at grades K–2 are newly redesigned to include students from all walks of life and educational backgrounds. They feature characters with a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, ages, races, religions, and more.
ReadWorks® texts: Amplify and ReadWorks have partnered to deliver high-quality texts curated to support the Amplify Caminos Knowledge Sequence and to extend student learning. Texts include high-interest nonfiction articles in topics in social studies, science, literature, and the arts. These texts are accompanied by vocabulary supports and standards-aligned formative assessment opportunities. Teachers can monitor their students’ progress using the ReadWorks reporting features.
Amplify Caminos Trade Book Collection Guide
Each book in our authentic literature collection was selected specifically to support and enhance the content of the K-2 Conocimiento Strand. These anchor texts are intended for use as an introduction to each domain—engaging students, piquing their curiosity, and building initial background knowledge—before diving into the deeper content of the domain Read-Alouds.
Every trade book has an instructional guide that includes the following:
Author and illustrator
Book summary
The Essential Question of the Knowledge domain, connecting the book to the domain
Key Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary words found in the book
A group activity to reinforce and extend students’ knowledge and understanding
A performance task to help gauge students’ comprehension of concepts in the text
Writing prompts to expand understanding and critical thinking
Text complexity ratings and descriptors for quantitative, qualitative, and reader/task categories
Detailed information about text complexity ratings and descriptors; additional uses for the books before, during, and after domain instruction; and the complete list of domains and books for each grade level can be found in the More About the Books section of this guide.
What makes Amplify Caminos different?
Built on the Science of Reading
Built out of the latest research in the Science of Reading, Amplify Caminos delivers explicit instruction in both foundational literacy skills (systematic phonics, decoding, and fluency) and background knowledge in grades K–2 with an integrated approach to explicit instruction in grades 3–5.
Explicit systematic skills instruction
The skills instruction in Amplify Caminos was distinctly developed with the Spanish language in mind. Its foundational lessons are specific to the language, rather than a direct translation from Amplify CKLA’s English skills instruction.
Reading instruction begins with the vowels first, then the most common consonants, and finally the least common consonants. Students will blend and segment sounds to form syllables, and syllables to form words.
Although Spanish has a highly predictable orthography, there are a few silent letters (h is always silent, u is silent after g or q), as well as letters that can make different sounds, depending on the letters that follow them. For that reason, syllables with these letters are taught somewhat later in the progression. The same is true for syllables with infrequently occurring consonants, such as z, k, x, and w.
Coherent knowledge instruction
While students are learning how to read, the Conocimiento strand gives them authentic and engaging reasons to read.
Amplify Caminos uses spiral learning to reinforce every student’s ability to develop skills like reading, writing, speaking, and listening in Spanish that can be transferred to English. As students engage with their lessons, they explore the similarities and differences in grammar, vocabulary, writing, and language use between Spanish and English. This bridge helps students learning two languages to strengthen their knowledge in both.
Through cross-curricular content, students explore units that relate to storytelling, science, and the history of our world in a holistic and thoughtful way. With these units, you’ll bring the world to your students, showing them how reading can become an exciting, rewarding, and useful part of their lives.
Embedded differentiation for all learners
Amplify Caminos provides built-in differentiation strategies and supports in every lesson.
Apoyo a la enseñanza y desafío: Support and Challenge suggestions in every lesson provide assistance or opportunities for more advanced work toward the goal of the lesson.
Notas culturales: These point-of-use notes provide additional information about the traditions, foods, holidays, word variations, and more from across the Spanish-speaking world.
Apoyo adicional: Every lesson in the Lectoescritura (Skills) Strand provides additional support activities suggested to reinforce foundational skills instruction. These activities can be given to any student who requires extra help, including students with special needs.
Systematic and cohesive writing instruction
Writing instruction in Amplify Caminos builds systematically and cohesively within and across grades.
In Grades K-2, writing mechanics—including handwriting and spelling—are taught in the Amplify Caminos Lectoescritura strand. Starting in Grade 1, instruction includes four steps in the writing process: planning, drafting, editing, and publishing and features lessons that have modeling, collaboration, and sharing. As students gain skills and confidence, they are able to take on more of these steps independently. Students learn to use planning techniques, including brainstorming and graphic organizers.
Beginning in Grade 4, the Amplify Caminos writing process expands to also include sharing and evaluating. In Grades 4 and 5, the writing process is no longer conceptualized as a series of scaffolded, linear steps (an important change from the Grade 3 writing process). Rather, students move between components of the writing process in a flexible manner, similar to the process mature and experienced writers follow naturally.
Amplify Caminos’ writing instruction provides a clear progression through the text types in each grade.
Because Amplify Caminos has two strands of lessons in Grades K-2, Lectoescritura and Conocimiento, students are exposed to both narrative and informational texts throughout the year. In Grades 3-5, the integrated units feature study in literary, informational, or a mix of both types of texts, depending on the content of the unit.
Grades K–2 introduce and establish the key elements of each text type, allowing students to gain comfort and confidence writing narratives, opinions, and informative texts. This enables students to practice thinking about content in different ways, offering more depth and breadth to their understanding of core content and of the writing text types.
By Grade 3, students will have gained significant practice in narrative, opinion/argumentative, and informational/explanatory forms of writing and will continue to apply those skills through Grade 5.
How does Amplify Caminos integrate with the other parts of the literacy system?
Amplify Caminos + mCLASS® Lectura
Achieve complete parity between English and Spanish assessments with mCLASS Lectura for K–6. mCLASS Lectura allows teachers to connect with their Spanish-speaking students face-to-face, one-on-one, and in the language most comfortable to them. The result? Valid and reliable student data reports available in both English and Spanish, enabling teachers to pinpoint where their Spanish-speaking or emergent bilingual students really are in their skill development and what instruction to prioritize.
Amplify Caminos + Amplify Reading
Amplify Reading is an engaging, adaptive digital program that extends the learning in Amplify Caminos. Amplify Reading offers support to a large sub-group of English learners (ELs) through Spanish voice-over. Spanish voiceover instructions are available in vocabulary and sentence-level comprehension games so ELs can build their vocabulary, language, and critical comprehension skills before moving into analyzing complex texts
Demo access and sample materials
Ready to explore on your own? First, watch the videos below to learn about the program’s components and how to navigate the digital platform.
Physical materials walkthrough video
Digital navigation video
Demo access
Next, follow the instructions below to access your demo account.
Click the CKLA and Caminos Demo button below.
Select Log in with Amplify.
To explore as a teacher, enter this username: t1.sfusdreviewer@demo.tryamplify.net
To explore as a student, enter this username: s1.sfusdreviewer@demo.tryamplify.net
Enter the password: Amplify1-sfusdreviewer
Click the Programs and apps menu
Select CKLA Teacher Resource Site
Select the desire grade level
Use the toggle to switch between English (CKLA) and Spanish (Caminos) resources.
What’s included in our Spanish language arts curriculum
Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts® (CKLA) is available in both English and Spanish. Amplify Caminos al Conocimiento Esencial, our robust Spanish language arts companion for grades K–5, supports multiple teaching models, including dual language immersion and transitional classrooms.
Year at a glance
The program’s intentional Knowledge Sequence from K–5 connects knowledge and vocabulary within a grade level and across grade levels, for deeper reading comprehension and preparation for college, career, and life. Instead of “activating prior knowledge,” Amplify Caminos helps you build it in the classroom from day one, for every child, expanding each student’s knowledge base long before they transition to reading to learn.
Units & domains at a glance
Each Knowledge Domain in grades K–2 and Unit in grades 3–5 varies in the number of days based on instructional purpose. Just as with our top-rated Amplify CKLA program, the Amplify Caminos materials engage and delight young learners with resources that are both appealing and original.
Domain
Nursery Rhymes and Fables/Rimas y fábulas infantiles
Start learning about literature with these classic Mother Goose rhymes.
Domain
The Five Senses/Los cinco sentidos
Learning about the body starts with learning about how we experience the world.
Domain
Stories/Cuentos
Learn about the parts of a book and some of the stories that go in one.
Domain
Plants/Plantas
Discover the lifecycle of plants and the history of George Washington Carver.
Domain
Farms/Granjas
Now we know how plants make their food… but what about animals?
Domain
Native Americans/Los nativos americanos
Who were the first people in America? A look at the Lenape, Wampanoag, and Lakota Sioux.
Domain
Kings and Queens/Reyes y reinas
To understand fairy tales, it’s best to first understand royalty.
Domain
Seasons and Weather/Las estaciones y el tiempo
The study of natural cycles continues with the weather and why it happens.
Domain
Columbus and the Pilgrims/Colón y los peregrinos
A look at the first contact between Europe and the Americas, and some of its results.
Domain
Colonial Towns and Townspeople/Las colonias y sus habitantes
Before the War for Independence, how did the town and country depend on one another?
Domain
Taking Care of the Earth/Cuidar el planeta Tierra
We only have one Earth—here are some ways to help care for it.
Domain
Presidents and American Symbols/Presidentes y símbolos de los Estados Unidos
Start learning about government through the lives of five presidents.
Domain
Fables and Stories/Fábulas y cuentos
Learn some of the key elements of a story through classic fables.
Domain
The Human Body/El cuerpo humano
What are germs? What are the organs? And what does it all have to do with health?
Domain
Different Lands, Similar Stories/Tierras diferentes, cuentos similares
A world tour of storytelling, and the stories that stay the same across the world.
Domain
Early World Civilizations/Antiguas civilizaciones del mundo
Rivers, farming, writing, and laws: just what does it take to build a civilization?
Domain
Early American Civilizations/Antiguas civilizaciones de América
What will we find in the great temples of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca civilizations?
Domain
Astronomy/Astronomía
How the Earth relates to the moon, the sun, and the rest of the planets.
Domain
The History of the Earth/La historia de la Tierra
Just what lies beneath the Earth’s surface, and what can it teach us about the past?
Domain
Animals and Habitats/Los animales y sus hábitats
A look at the connection between how animals live and where they make their homes.
Domain
Fairy Tales/Cuentos de hadas
What do fairy tales have to teach us about how stories are told?
Domain
A New Nation: American Independence/Una nueva nación: la independencia de los Estados Unidos
The story of the birth of the United States out of the 13 Colonies.
Domain
Frontier Explorers/Exploradores de la Frontera
The story of the journey west from the newborn U.S.A. to find the Pacific Ocean.
Domain
Fairy Tales and Tall Tales/Cuentos de hadas y cuentos exagerados
Learn about exaggeration and characterization on the frontier.
Domain
Early Asian Civilizations/Antiguas civilizaciones de Asia
Tour the world of classical civilization, starting with India and China.
Domain
Ancient Greek Civilization/La civilización griega antigua
The tour continues with the philosophy and politics of Greece.
Domain
Greek Myths/Mitos griegos
Dive deep into the characters and storytelling of classic myths.
Domain
The War of 1812/La guerra de 1812
Learn about America’s “Second War for Independence.”
Domain
Cycles in Nature/Los ciclos de la naturaleza
Introducing the natural cycles that make our lives possible.
Domain
Westward Expansion/La expansión hacia el oeste
Why did pioneers go west? What happened to the people who were there?
Domain
Insects/Los insectos
Lay the grounds for animal classification by looking at solitary and social insects.
Domain
The U.S. Civil War/La Guerra Civil de los Estados Unidos
Begin to grapple with U.S. history’s central crisis over slavery.
Domain
Human Body: Building Blocks and Nutrition/El cuerpo humano: componentes básicos y nutrición
A deeper dive into the digestive system and the nutrition process.
Domain
Immigration/La inmigración
Why did people immigrate to the United States, and what did they find here?
Domain
Fighting for a Cause/Luchar por una causa
How people can do extraordinary things to make the world better for everyone.
Unit 1
Classic Tales: The Wind in the Willows/Cuentos Clásicos: El viento en los sauces
A deep dive into character, theme, and POV in classic stories from around the world.
Unit 2
Animal Classification/La clasificación de los animales
How do we classify different animals by their appearance and behavior?
Unit 3
The Human Body: Systems and Senses/El cuerpo humano: sistemas y sentidos
Let’s take a closer look at how the skeleton, muscles, and nervous system all work.
Unit 4
The Ancient Roman Civilization/La civilización romana antigua
What is Rome’s greatest cultural contribution? In this unit, your students decide.
Unit 5
Light and Sound/La luz y el sonido
The science behind all the ways we see and hear the world.
Unit 6
The Viking Age/La era vikinga
An immersive narrative experience about what life was like in Viking communities.
Unit 7
Astronomy: Our Solar System and Beyond/Astronomía: nuestro sistema solar y más allá
More about our universe, including a writing project about daily life on a space station.
Unit 8
Native Americans: Regions and Cultures/Los nativos americanos: regiones y culturas
How did Native American nations change their way of life in different parts of the world?
Unit 9
Early Explorations of North America/La exploración europea de América del Norte
What was it like to sail to North America with the early European explorers?
Unit 10
Colonial America/La época colonial en los Estados Unidos
A study of the very different ways of life in the different pre-U.S. colonies.
Unit 11
Ecology/Ecología
Students keep ecologist’s journals to learn about our world and how best to protect it.
Unit 1
Personal Narratives/Narrativas personales
Read stories of personal experience… and learn to reflect on your own.
Unit 2
Empires in the Middle Ages/Los imperios en la Edad Media, parte 1 & Los imperios en la Edad Media, parte 2
Explore the medieval history of Europe and the Middle East.
Unit 3
Poetry/Poesía
Study the poetry of many nations using licensed text anthologies, and begin to write your own.
Transform the class into a lab for students to build and present inventions.
Unit 5
Geology/Geología
Plate tectonics, volcanoes, erosion: all the forces that shape the Earth.
Unit 6
Contemporary Fiction with excerpts from The House on Mango Street/Ficción Contemporánea con Fragmentos de La Casa en Mango Street
Explore The House on Mango Street… and write a book while doing it.
Unit 7
American Revolution/La Revolución estadounidense
Why did America seek independence? Let’s investigate the causes and effects.
Unit 8
Treasure Island/La Isla del Tesoro
How dSeek the treasure of plot in this detailed study of a classic fiction adventure.
Unit 1
Personal Narratives/Narrativas personales
Through writing and sharing their writing, students begin to identify themselves as writers.
Unit 2
Early American Civilizations/Las primeras civilizaciones americanas
Students craft a codex to explain the rise and fall of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca people.
Unit 3
Poetry/Poesía
Students close read many forms of poetry… and learn to write them.
Unit 4
Adventures of Don Quixote/Las Aventuras de Don Quijote
Was Don Quixote right to fight the windmill? In this full-length novel study, students decide.
Unit 5
The Renaissance/El Renacimiento
Exploring the art and literature of the Renaissance through the works of its masters.
Unit 6
The Reformation/La Reforma
How did the printing press transform the religion and society of Europe?
Unit 7
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream/Sueño de Una Noche de Verano de William Shakespeare
Students enter the world of Shakespeare by reading, designing, and acting out his work.
Unit 8
Native Americans/Los nativos americanos
How did the policies of the U.S. government impact Native American culture and lives?
Unit 9
Chemical Matter/Química
Students use knowledge of chemistry to solve a mystery.
Print & digital components
The program includes instructional guidance and student materials for a year of instruction, with lessons and activities that keep students engaged every day.
Component
FORMAT
Knowledge (Conocimientos) Teacher Guides (K–2)
Knowledge Strand Teacher Guides contain Amplify CKLA’s cross-curricular read-alouds and application activities, all of which are standards-based to build mastery of content knowledge and literacy skills. There is one Teacher Guide per Knowledge Domain.
Print and digital
Knowledge Image Cards (K–2)
Amplify Caminos includes Image Cards for each Knowledge Domain to bring each topic to life through vivid visuals.
Print and digital
Knowledge Flip Books (K–2)
Projectable Flip Books are provided to accompany the read-alouds in each Knowledge Domain.
Digital
Teacher Guides (3–5)
Teacher Guides for grades 3–5 units are based on content-rich topics and incorporate reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in the context of background knowledge. There is one Teacher Guide per unit.
Print or digital
Teacher Resource Site (K–5)
The program includes a one-stop-shop website for lesson projections, digital versions of all Amplify Caminos materials, lesson planning resources, multimedia (such as eBooks), and more.
Digital
Professional Learning Site (K–5)
The Professional Learning site includes training materials, best practices, and other resources to develop program expertise. Access professional development anywhere, anytime.
Digital
Component
FORMAT
Knowledge (Conocimiento) Activity Books (K–2)
Activity Books provide students with the opportunity to deepen world and word knowledge by responding to text in a diversity of ways.
Print
Student Readers (3–5)
Student Readers serve as content-rich anchor texts for each unit. Units such as Poetry and Contemporary Fiction feature authentic texts originally written in Spanish.
Activity Books (3–5)
Activity Books in grades 3–5 provide daily opportunities for students to hone reading and writing skills within the context of each unit.
Print and digital
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Our programs are designed to support and complement one another. Learn more about our related programs.
Introducing new units for Amplify CKLA and Amplify Caminos K–5
As part of our commitment to creating even richer and more wide-ranging curricula, we are excited to release six new units for both Amplify CKLA and Amplify Caminos!
Our brand-new Knowledge Research units carry forward the powerful and proven instructional approach of both Amplify CKLA and Amplify Caminos while also:
Adding more variety to engage students from many walks of life. The rich topics and highly visual components featured in these units provide students with even more “windows and mirrors” and perspectives as they work to build knowledge.
Adding more authentic literature. Each new research unit revolves around a collection of high-interest authentic trade books that will spark more curiosity and inspire more inquiry.
Adding more flexibility. Units can be implemented for extended core instruction during flex periods, district-designated Pausing Points, or enrichment periods.
Units cover a variety of rich and relevant topics:
With these new units, students will soar to new heights with Dr. Ellen Ochoa, Amelia Earhart, and the Tuskegee Airmen. They’ll feel the rhythm as they learn about Jazz legends Miles Davis, Tito Puente, and Duke Ellington. And they’ll explore the far reaches of the world with Jacques Cousteau, Matthew Henson, and Eugenie Clark.
Grade K: Art and the World Around Us/El arte y el mundo que nos rodea
Grade 1: Adventure Stories: Tales from the Edge of the World/Cuentos de aventuras: relatos desde los confines de la Tierra
Grade 2: Up, Up, and Away: The Age of Aviation/¡A volar! La era de la aviación
Grade 3: All That Jazz/Jazz y más
Grade 4: Energy: Past, Present, and Future/Energía: pasado, presente y futuro
Grade 5: Beyond Juneteenth: 1865 to present/Más allá de Juneteenth: de 1865 al presente
Units are available in English and Spanish, and will include the following components:
Teacher Guide
Student Activity Books
Image Cards
Trade Book Collection
Digital Components (grades K–3 and 5)
Grade K: Art and the World Around Us/El arte y el mundo que nos rodea
“Every child is an artist,” said Picasso, meaning that every child uses art to explore and understand the world around them. Art and the World Around Us honors that truth by introducing Kindergarten students to some of the ways in which artists have explored and understood the worlds around them, too.
This domain introduces students to artists from different time periods, countries, and cultures. Throughout the unit, students learn about different kinds of art and how artists use the world around them as they make art. They also connect this to what they have already learned about the earth, plants, and animals in other Amplify CKLA and Amplify Caminos domains: Farms/Granjas, Plants/Plantas, and Taking Care of the Earth/Cuidar el planeta Tierra. In addition, students connect this to what they have learned about sculptors in the Presidents and American Symbols/Presidentes y símbolos de los Estados Unidos domain. As they explore different artists and artistic traditions, they develop their ideas about how humans are connected to each other and to the world around them.
As you read the texts in this unit, students may observe ways in which the characters or subjects are both similar to and different from students. This is a good opportunity to teach students awareness and sensitivity, building on the idea that all people share some things in common, and have other things that make them unique. This unit also offers an excellent opportunity to collaborate with your school’s art teacher, as many lessons have suggested activities to help students understand the kind of art they are studying.
Within this unit, students have opportunities to:
Use details to describe art.
Identify three ways to create art.
Identify characteristics of cave art.
Sequence the steps of making pottery.
Describe how artists can create work connected to the world around them.
Describe what makes Kehinde Wiley’s portraits unique.
Explain how the texture of a surface can affect artwork created on it.
Explain what a sculpture is.
Describe what makes James Turrell’s artwork about the sky unique.
Explain what a museum is and what kinds of things you can see or do there.
Instruction in this unit revolves around the following collection of high-interest authentic trade books. One copy of each trade book is included with the unit materials.
The First Drawing by Mordicai Gerstein
Van Gogh and the Sunflowers by Laurence Anholt
My Name is Georgia by Jeanette Winter
A Life Made by Hand by Andrea D’Aquino
Rainbow Weaver by Linda Elovitz Marshall
Luna Loves Art by Joseph Coelho
Grade 1: Adventure Stories: Tales from the Edge of the World/Cuentos de aventuras: relatos desde los confines de la Tierra
This domain introduces students to adventure stories set around the world and challenges students to dig into the adventures through research. By listening to the Read-Alouds and trade books, students increase their vocabulary and reading comprehension skills, learn valuable lessons about perseverance and teamwork, and become familiar with gathering information for research.
In this unit, students study the careers of real-world explorers Dr. Eugenie Clark and Sophia Danenberg, marvel at the inventions of Jacques Cousteau, think critically about how teamwork and collaboration can make greater adventures possible, learn about the science and technology that enable adventures, and research some of the ways humans have confronted challenges at the edges of the world, from the oceans below to space above.
Each lesson in the domain builds students’ research skills as they ask questions, gather information, and write a paragraph about their findings. Students share what they have learned about adventures in an Adventure Gallery Walkthrough. By taking on the persona of one of the adventurers they meet in the Read-Alouds and trade books, students deliver their final paragraphs as if they are a “speaking portrait” of that person. Students are invited to dress up as that adventurer if they desire.
In addition, teachers can set aside time outside of the instructional block to create the picture frames students will hold as they present to the Adventure Gallery Walk guests. Frames can be made from shirt boxes, cardboard, construction paper, or any art supplies that are on hand. This might be an opportunity to collaborate with the school’s art department if resources are available. Another option is to ask students to make their frames at home with their caregivers. On the day of the Adventure Gallery Walk, students will be the hosts and take on specific jobs, such as welcoming the guests, describing their work throughout the unit, and pointing out the areas of study on the domain bulletin board. You can find a complete list of student jobs in Lesson 13.
This unit builds upon the following Amplify CKLA and Amplify Caminos units that students will have encountered in the previous grade.
Nursery Rhymes and Fables/Rimas y fábulas infantiles (Kindergarten)
Stories/Cuentos (Kindergarten)
The specific core content targeted in these domains is particularly relevant to the Read-Alouds students will hear in Adventure Stories: Tales from the Edge of the World. The background knowledge students bring to this unit will greatly enhance their understanding of the trade books used in this unit.
Instruction in this unit revolves around the following collection of high-interest authentic trade books. One copy of each trade book is included with the unit materials.
My Name is Gabito/Me llamo Gabito by Monica Brown
Tomas and the Galápagos Adventure by Carolyn Lunn
The Astronaut with a Song for the Stars: The Story of Dr. Ellen Ochoa by Julia Finley Mosca
Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean’s Most Fearless Scientist by Jess Keating
Manfish by Jennifer Berne
Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson, Co-Discoverer of the North Pole by Deborah Hopkinson
The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest by Steve Jenkins
Grade 2: Up, Up, and Away: The Age of Aviation/¡A volar! La era de la aviación
With this domain, students head up, up, and away with an introduction to the soaring history of aviation. Students learn the stories of early aviators, such as the Montgolfier brothers, the Wright brothers, Aída de Acosta, and Amelia Earhart.
During the unit, students study the science of flight, including the physics concept of lift, and research the social impacts of the world of flight. Finally, students let their research skills take flight as they explore key figures from the world of aviation.
The lessons in this domain build on earlier Grade 2 CKLA and Amplify Caminos domains about the westward expansion, early Greek civilizations, and Greek myths, and lay the foundation for learning about other periods of world history in future grades.
This unit builds upon the following Amplify CKLA and Amplify Caminos units that students will have encountered earlier in the year.
The Ancient Greek Civilization/La civilización griega antigua (Grade 2)
Greek Myths/Mitos griegos (Grade 2)
Westward Expansion/La expansión hacia el oeste (Grade 2)
The specific core content targeted in these domains is particularly relevant to the Read-Alouds students will hear in Up, Up, and Away: The Age of Aviation. The background knowledge students bring to this unit will greatly enhance their understanding of the trade books used in this unit.
Instruction in this unit revolves around the following collection of high-interest authentic trade books. One copy of each trade book is included with the unit materials.
Up and Away!: How Two Brothers Invented the Hot-Air Balloon by Jason Henry
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Blériot by Alice and Martin Provensen
The Flying Girl: How Aída de Acosta Learned to Soar by Margarita Engle
Wood, Wire, Wings: Emma Lilian Todd Invents an Airplane by Kirsten Larson
Helicopter Man: Igor Sikorsky and His Amazing Invention by Edwin Brit Wyckoff
The Tuskegee Airmen Story by Lynn Homan and Thomas Reilly
Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII by Sally Deng
Aim for the Skies: Jerrie Mock and Joan Merriam Smith’s Race to Complete Amelia Earhart’s Quest by Aimee Bissonette
Grade 3: All That Jazz/Jazz y más
This domain teaches students about the vibrant music, poetry, and culture of the Jazz Age in the United States. Students learn about famous writers and musicians like Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Melba Liston, Tito Puente, and Miles Davis. They study how the jazz art form took root in the South, then spread to the North to become the sound of the Harlem Renaissance, eventually connecting people around the world in musical expression.
During this unit, students perform guided research to further explore both the history of jazz and what jazz is today. They develop research skills and then use those skills to find deeper connections between the stories and music of the Jazz Age and music today. As students learn about the world of jazz, they collaborate and share ideas with their classmates. They also practice sharing feedback focused on their written work, and, at the end of the unit, students present their research to the group.
The lessons give students opportunities to dive into the rhythms and stories of jazz, utilizing the knowledge sequence in this unit to:
Collaboratively generate research questions about jazz, jazz musicians, contemporary musicians from the state where they live or have lived, and the evolution of jazz music.
Utilize Read-Alouds, independent reading, and partner reading to learn about the Jazz Age, the Harlem Renaissance, jazz music, and biographies of celebrated jazz musicians and writers.
Research the answers to their generated questions, gather information, write a short research essay about a famous jazz musician, write a short essay about a contemporary musician from the state where they live or have lived, and give a presentation about their research.
Within this unit, students have opportunities to:
Ask relevant questions and make pertinent comments
Identify details in texts
Determine key ideas of texts by evaluating details
Make text-based inferences
Generate questions based on prior knowledge and gathered information
Synthesize details across texts to demonstrate comprehension
Discuss and explain an author’s purpose
Identify and cite reliable primary and secondary sources of information
Compose a well-organized and focused informative essay
Make connections between topics
Present information using appropriate media
Instruction in this unit revolves around the following collection of high-interest authentic trade books. One copy of each trade book is included with the unit materials.
Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound by Kathleen Cornell Berman
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone by Kathryn Russell-Brown
Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage as the First Black and White Jazz Band in History by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Tito Puente, Mambo King by Monica Brown
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music by Margarita Engle
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra by Andrea Pinkney
In this unit, students also read the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes. (Available for free through the Academy of American Poets website and the Poetry Foundation website, with recorded audio available through the website for John Hancock College Preparatory High School.)
Grade 4: Energy: Past, Present, and Future/Energía: pasado, presente y futuro
With this domain, students become tomorrow’s problem solvers in this study of energy in the United States. Analytical reading skills are developed by examining the challenges of early energy innovators. Students then read about current energy practices and young energy change-makers across the world.
Throughout the unit, students conduct research into different sources of energy and present a proposal, putting them in the shoes of future energy innovators. They also use the knowledge sequence in this unit to:
Collaboratively analyze texts to identify cause-effect and problem-solution relationships.
Generate questions and conduct research about energy.
Write an opinion essay making their case for a fuel of the future.
Create energy proposals using primary and secondary resources.
This unit builds upon the following Amplify CKLA units that students will have encountered in previous grades as well as earlier in the year.
Plants/Plantas (Grade K)
The History of the Earth/La historia de la Tierra (Grade 1)
Eureka! Student Inventor/¡Eureka! El arte de la invención (Grade 4)
The specific core content targeted in these domains is particularly relevant to the Read-Alouds students will hear in Energy: Past, Present, and Future. The background knowledge students bring to this unit will greatly enhance their understanding of the trade books used in this unit.
Instruction in this unit revolves around the following collection of high-interest authentic trade books. One copy of each trade book is included with the unit materials.
Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm
Energy Island: How One Community Harnessed the Wind and Changed their World by Allan Drummond
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Picture Book Edition by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
Grade 5: Beyond Juneteenth: 1865 to present/Más allá de Juneteenth: de 1865 al presente
Within this domain, Students learn about General Granger’s announcement in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, a day marked in history as Juneteenth. Texts and multimedia sources will support foundational knowledge-building about the end of slavery in the United States. A review of the first freedom announcement, President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, provides students with background knowledge to further emphasize the significance of Juneteenth in American history.
This unit also takes students on a journey beyond Juneteenth, as they study specific contributions of African Americans from 1865 to the present day. Students participate in a virtual field trip to Emancipation Park in Houston, Texas and use the knowledge sequence in this unit to:
Collaboratively generate research questions about Juneteenth, The Great Migration, innovators and inventors, education, the humanities, activists, and allies.
Use Read-Alouds, independent, and partner reading to learn about African American contributions from 1865 to the present.
Research to find answers to their generated questions, gather information, and write a four-chapter Beyond Juneteenth book.
This unit builds upon the following Amplify CKLA units that students will have encountered in previous grades.
Native Americans/Los nativos americanos (Grade K)
A New Nation: American Independence/Una nueva nación: la independencia de los Estados Unidos (Grade 1)
The U.S. Civil War/La Guerra Civil de los Estados Unidos (Grade 2)
Immigration/La inmigración (Grade 2)
Native Americans/Los nativos americanos (Grade 5)
The specific core content targeted in these domains is particularly relevant to the Read-Alouds students will hear in Beyond Juneteenth: 1865 to present. The background knowledge students bring to this unit will greatly enhance their understanding of the trade books used in this unit.
Instruction in this unit revolves around the following collection of high-interest authentic trade books. One copy of each trade book is included with the unit materials.
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom by Angela Johnson
The Great Migration: An American Story by Jacob Lawrence
Sing a Song: How “Lift Every Voice and Sing” Inspired Generations by Kelly Starling Lyons
Side by Side/ Lado a lado: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez/ La Historia de Dolores Huerta y Cesar Chavez by Monica Brown
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters by Barack Obama
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Carta de los Estándares de Ciencias para la Próxima Generación
Cada unidad incluye una carta que describe los Estándares de Ciencias para la Próxima Generación y una explicación de cómo se presentan estos estándares en todas las unidades de cada grado.
Si le interesa ver cómo se incorporan estos estándares en el aprendizaje de su estudiante, haga clic abajo para descargar la carta correspondiente a su grado.
Cada unidad de Amplify Science incluye un mapa para los maestros. Este documento contiene las preguntas científicas que los estudiantes encontrarán en la unidad y explica cómo hallarán las respuestas.
Si le interesa saber más, haga clic abajo, en el grado de su estudiante, para descargar el Mapa de la unidad.
En los grados 3–5, el uso de aplicaciones digitales interactivas es tan solo uno de los métodos que los estudiantes emplean para interpretar los conceptos de la unidad. El siguiente video muestra un ejemplo de una simulación:
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La presentación siguiente ofrece una mirada al currículo de Amplify Science. Es probable que el maestro o la maestra haya presentado este recurso en el evento escolar de regreso a clases.
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What’s included in our Spanish language arts curriculum
Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts® (CKLA) is available in both English and Spanish. Amplify Caminos al Conocimiento Esencial, our robust Spanish language arts companion for grades K–5, supports multiple teaching models, including dual language immersion and transitional classrooms.
Year at a glance
The program’s intentional Knowledge Sequence from K–5 connects knowledge and vocabulary within a grade level and across grade levels, for deeper reading comprehension and preparation for college, career, and life. Instead of “activating prior knowledge,” Amplify Caminos helps you build it in the classroom from day one, for every child, expanding each student’s knowledge base long before they transition to reading to learn.
Units & domains at a glance
Each Knowledge Domain in grades K–2 and Unit in grades 3–5 varies in the number of days based on instructional purpose. Just as with our top-rated Amplify CKLA program, the Amplify Caminos materials engage and delight young learners with resources that are both appealing and original.
Domain
Nursery Rhymes and Fables/Rimas y fábulas infantiles
Start learning about literature with these classic Mother Goose rhymes.
Domain
The Five Senses/Los cinco sentidos
Learning about the body starts with learning about how we experience the world.
Domain
Stories/Cuentos
Learn about the parts of a book and some of the stories that go in one.
Domain
Plants/Plantas
Discover the lifecycle of plants and the history of George Washington Carver.
Domain
Farms/Granjas
Now we know how plants make their food… but what about animals?
Domain
Native Americans/Los nativos americanos
Who were the first people in America? A look at the Lenape, Wampanoag, and Lakota Sioux.
Domain
Kings and Queens/Reyes y reinas
To understand fairy tales, it’s best to first understand royalty.
Domain
Seasons and Weather/Las estaciones y el tiempo
The study of natural cycles continues with the weather and why it happens.
Domain
Columbus and the Pilgrims/Colón y los peregrinos
A look at the first contact between Europe and the Americas, and some of its results.
Domain
Colonial Towns and Townspeople/Las colonias y sus habitantes
Before the War for Independence, how did the town and country depend on one another?
Domain
Taking Care of the Earth/Cuidar el planeta Tierra
We only have one Earth—here are some ways to help care for it.
Domain
Presidents and American Symbols/Presidentes y símbolos de los Estados Unidos
Start learning about government through the lives of five presidents.
Domain
Fables and Stories/Fábulas y cuentos
Learn some of the key elements of a story through classic fables.
Domain
The Human Body/El cuerpo humano
What are germs? What are the organs? And what does it all have to do with health?
Domain
Different Lands, Similar Stories/Tierras diferentes, cuentos similares
A world tour of storytelling, and the stories that stay the same across the world.
Domain
Early World Civilizations/Antiguas civilizaciones del mundo
Rivers, farming, writing, and laws: just what does it take to build a civilization?
Domain
Early American Civilizations/Antiguas civilizaciones de América
What will we find in the great temples of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca civilizations?
Domain
Astronomy/Astronomía
How the Earth relates to the moon, the sun, and the rest of the planets.
Domain
The History of the Earth/La historia de la Tierra
Just what lies beneath the Earth’s surface, and what can it teach us about the past?
Domain
Animals and Habitats/Los animales y sus hábitats
A look at the connection between how animals live and where they make their homes.
Domain
Fairy Tales/Cuentos de hadas
What do fairy tales have to teach us about how stories are told?
Domain
A New Nation: American Independence/Una nueva nación: la independencia de los Estados Unidos
The story of the birth of the United States out of the 13 Colonies.
Domain
Frontier Explorers/Exploradores de la Frontera
The story of the journey west from the newborn U.S.A. to find the Pacific Ocean.
Domain
Fairy Tales and Tall Tales/Cuentos de hadas y cuentos exagerados
Learn about exaggeration and characterization on the frontier.
Domain
Early Asian Civilizations/Antiguas civilizaciones de Asia
Tour the world of classical civilization, starting with India and China.
Domain
Ancient Greek Civilization/La civilización griega antigua
The tour continues with the philosophy and politics of Greece.
Domain
Greek Myths/Mitos griegos
Dive deep into the characters and storytelling of classic myths.
Domain
The War of 1812/La guerra de 1812
Learn about America’s “Second War for Independence.”
Domain
Cycles in Nature/Los ciclos de la naturaleza
Introducing the natural cycles that make our lives possible.
Domain
Westward Expansion/La expansión hacia el oeste
Why did pioneers go west? What happened to the people who were there?
Domain
Insects/Los insectos
Lay the grounds for animal classification by looking at solitary and social insects.
Domain
The U.S. Civil War/La Guerra Civil de los Estados Unidos
Begin to grapple with U.S. history’s central crisis over slavery.
Domain
Human Body: Building Blocks and Nutrition/El cuerpo humano: componentes básicos y nutrición
A deeper dive into the digestive system and the nutrition process.
Domain
Immigration/La inmigración
Why did people immigrate to the United States, and what did they find here?
Domain
Fighting for a Cause/Luchar por una causa
How people can do extraordinary things to make the world better for everyone.
Unit 1
Classic Tales: The Wind in the Willows/Cuentos Clásicos: El viento en los sauces
A deep dive into character, theme, and POV in classic stories from around the world.
Unit 2
Animal Classification/La clasificación de los animales
How do we classify different animals by their appearance and behavior?
Unit 3
The Human Body: Systems and Senses/El cuerpo humano: sistemas y sentidos
Let’s take a closer look at how the skeleton, muscles, and nervous system all work.
Unit 4
The Ancient Roman Civilization/La civilización romana antigua
What is Rome’s greatest cultural contribution? In this unit, your students decide.
Unit 5
Light and Sound/La luz y el sonido
The science behind all the ways we see and hear the world.
Unit 6
The Viking Age/La era vikinga
An immersive narrative experience about what life was like in Viking communities.
Unit 7
Astronomy: Our Solar System and Beyond/Astronomía: nuestro sistema solar y más allá
More about our universe, including a writing project about daily life on a space station.
Unit 8
Native Americans: Regions and Cultures/Los nativos americanos: regiones y culturas
How did Native American nations change their way of life in different parts of the world?
Unit 9
Early Explorations of North America/La exploración europea de América del Norte
What was it like to sail to North America with the early European explorers?
Unit 10
Colonial America/La época colonial en los Estados Unidos
A study of the very different ways of life in the different pre-U.S. colonies.
Unit 11
Ecology/Ecología
Students keep ecologist’s journals to learn about our world and how best to protect it.
Unit 1
Personal Narratives/Narrativas personales
Read stories of personal experience… and learn to reflect on your own.
Unit 2
Empires in the Middle Ages/Los imperios en la Edad Media, parte 1 & Los imperios en la Edad Media, parte 2
Explore the medieval history of Europe and the Middle East.
Unit 3
Poetry/Poesía
Study the poetry of many nations using licensed text anthologies, and begin to write your own.
Transform the class into a lab for students to build and present inventions.
Unit 5
Geology/Geología
Plate tectonics, volcanoes, erosion: all the forces that shape the Earth.
Unit 6
Contemporary Fiction with excerpts from The House on Mango Street/Ficción Contemporánea con Fragmentos de La Casa en Mango Street
Explore The House on Mango Street… and write a book while doing it.
Unit 7
American Revolution/La Revolución estadounidense
Why did America seek independence? Let’s investigate the causes and effects.
Unit 8
Treasure Island/La Isla del Tesoro
How dSeek the treasure of plot in this detailed study of a classic fiction adventure.
Unit 1
Personal Narratives/Narrativas personales
Through writing and sharing their writing, students begin to identify themselves as writers.
Unit 2
Early American Civilizations/Las primeras civilizaciones americanas
Students craft a codex to explain the rise and fall of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca people.
Unit 3
Poetry/Poesía
Students close read many forms of poetry… and learn to write them.
Unit 4
Adventures of Don Quixote/Las Aventuras de Don Quijote
Was Don Quixote right to fight the windmill? In this full-length novel study, students decide.
Unit 5
The Renaissance/El Renacimiento
Exploring the art and literature of the Renaissance through the works of its masters.
Unit 6
The Reformation/La Reforma
How did the printing press transform the religion and society of Europe?
Unit 7
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream/Sueño de Una Noche de Verano de William Shakespeare
Students enter the world of Shakespeare by reading, designing, and acting out his work.
Unit 8
Native Americans/Los nativos americanos
How did the policies of the U.S. government impact Native American culture and lives?
Unit 9
Chemical Matter/Química
Students use knowledge of chemistry to solve a mystery.
Print & digital components
The program includes instructional guidance and student materials for a year of instruction, with lessons and activities that keep students engaged every day.
Component
FORMAT
Knowledge (Conocimientos) Teacher Guides (K–2)
Knowledge Strand Teacher Guides contain Amplify CKLA’s cross-curricular read-alouds and application activities, all of which are standards-based to build mastery of content knowledge and literacy skills. There is one Teacher Guide per Knowledge Domain.
Print and digital
Knowledge Image Cards (K–2)
Amplify Caminos includes Image Cards for each Knowledge Domain to bring each topic to life through vivid visuals.
Print and digital
Knowledge Flip Books (K–2)
Projectable Flip Books are provided to accompany the read-alouds in each Knowledge Domain.
Digital
Teacher Guides (3–5)
Teacher Guides for grades 3–5 units are based on content-rich topics and incorporate reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in the context of background knowledge. There is one Teacher Guide per unit.
Print or digital
Teacher Resource Site (K–5)
The program includes a one-stop-shop website for lesson projections, digital versions of all Amplify Caminos materials, lesson planning resources, multimedia (such as eBooks), and more.
Digital
Professional Learning Site (K–5)
The Professional Learning site includes training materials, best practices, and other resources to develop program expertise. Access professional development anywhere, anytime.
Digital
Component
FORMAT
Knowledge (Conocimiento) Activity Books (K–2)
Activity Books provide students with the opportunity to deepen world and word knowledge by responding to text in a diversity of ways.
Print
Student Readers (3–5)
Student Readers serve as content-rich anchor texts for each unit. Units such as Poetry and Contemporary Fiction feature authentic texts originally written in Spanish.
Activity Books (3–5)
Activity Books in grades 3–5 provide daily opportunities for students to hone reading and writing skills within the context of each unit.
Print and digital
Explore more programs
Our programs are designed to support and complement one another. Learn more about our related programs.
¡Bienvenidas, familias de estudiantes de Amplify Science para nivel intermedio!
Carta de los Estándares de Ciencias para la Próxima Generación
La carta siguiente, que también se incluye en el programa, describe los Estándares de Ciencias para la Próxima Generación y explica cómo se presentan en las unidades de Amplify Science de nivel intermedio.
Mire el video a continuación para obtener ayuda para los estudiantes que navegan en Amplify Science (en inglés).
Mapas de las unidades
Cada unidad de Amplify Science incluye un mapa para los maestros. Este documento contiene las preguntas científicas que los estudiantes encontrarán en la unidad y muestra cómo hallarán las respuestas.
Haga clic aquí para descargar el Mapa de la unidad sobre el metabolismo a modo de ejemplo (en inglés).
Si le interesa ver los mapas de las unidades del nivel escolar de su estudiante, contacte a su maestro o maestra.
Simulaciones
En los grados 6–8, el uso de aplicaciones digitales es tan solo uno de los métodos que los estudiantes emplean para interpretar los conceptos de la unidad. Este video muestra un ejemplo de una simulación:
Recursos para el evento de regreso a clases
Esta presentación ofrece una mirada al currículo de Amplify Science. Es probable que el maestro o la maestra haya presentado este recurso en el evento escolar de regreso a clases.
La tarea en familia
Si les interesa ampliar la experiencia escolar de Amplify Science en casa, vean una de las siguientes tarjetas de Perfil del científico. Consideren usarlas para iniciar conversaciones sobre carreras de ciencias e ingeniería.
Haga clic aquí para descargar las tarjetas de Perfil del científico (en inglés).
El programa Amplify Science también incluye varias tareas en familia que podrá explorar con el estudiante fuera del horario de clases. El maestro o la maestra de su estudiante podría asignar tareas en familia a medida que la clase avanza en las unidades, pero si desea explorarlas por su cuenta, haga clic en los siguientes nombres de las unidades.
¡Nuestro compromiso es brindarle ayuda! ¿Tiene alguna pregunta sobre Amplify Science?
Ingrese a nuestra biblioteca de ayuda para encontrar artículos con las respuestas a sus preguntas sobre el programa. Si necesita ayuda adicional con el currículo, comuníquese con el maestro o la maestra de su estudiante.
Amplify Caminos Pilot Packs
Pilot educator,
This is the beginning of the Amplify Caminos journey in your classroom! Making this important, evidence-based shift shows your commitment and dedication to your emergent bilingual students. We truly appreciate the work you’re doing and are here to help you along the way.
As a previous pilot teacher myself, I know how overwhelming it can feel to start a new curriculum. Within this site, you’ll find resources to help you get started before your implementation training, including a materials checklist, scope and sequence documents, support videos, and more! These tools will support your 6–12 weeks of core Spanish literacy instruction with Amplify Caminos. I hope this site is helpful in getting you started with your pilot.
Thank you for all you do,
—Maggie Buttaccio
Get started
To get started with your new pilot of Amplify Caminos, you’ll first want to review the following:
Below you’ll find the Amplify Caminos 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.
Teacher materials
Lectoescritura Unit 4 Teacher Guide
Teacher materials
Lectoescritura Unit 5 Teacher Guide
Teacher materials
Lectoescritura Unit 6 Teacher Guide
Teacher materials
Lectoescritura Unit 4 Big Book
Teacher materials
Lectoescritura Unit 5 Big Book
Teacher materials
Lectoescritura Unit 6 Big Book
Teacher materials
Lectoescritura Large Letter Cards
Teacher materials
Lectoescritura Small Letter Cards
Teacher materials
GK Lectoescritura Image Cards SAMPLER
Teacher materials
Conocimiento Domain 2 Teacher Guide: Los cinco sentidos
Teacher materials
Conocimiento Domain 3 Teacher Guide: Cuentos
Teacher materials
Conocimiento Domain 4 Teacher Guide: Plantas
Teacher materials
Conocimiento Domain 2 Image Cards: Los cinco sentidos
Teacher materials
Conocimiento Domain 3 Image Cards: Cuentos
Teacher materials
Conocimiento Domain 4 Image Cards: Plantas
Student materials
Lectoescritura Unit 5 Reader
Student materials
Lectoescritura Unit 6 Reader
Student materials
Lectoescritura Unit 4 Activity Book
Student materials
Lectoescritura Unit 5 Activity Book
Student materials
Lectoescritura Unit 6 Activity Book
Student materials
Conocimiento SAMPLER (Domains 2, 3, 4)
Teacher materials
Lectoescritura Unit 1 Teacher Guide
Teacher materials
Lectoescritura Unit 2 Teacher Guide
Teacher materials
Lectoescritura Unit 3 Teacher Guide
Teacher materials
Lectoescritura Unit 1 Big Book
Teacher materials
Lectoescritura Unit 2 Big Book
Teacher materials
Lectoescritura Unit 3 Big Book
Teacher materials
Lectoescritura Large Letter Cards
Teacher materials
G1 Lectoescritura Image Cards SAMPLER
Teacher materials
Conocimiento Domain 2 Teacher Guide: El cuerpo humano
Teacher materials
Conocimiento Domain 3 Teacher Guide: Tierras diferentes
With Amplify Science, students don’t just passively learn about science concepts. Instead, they take on the role of scientists and engineers to actively investigate and figure out real-world phenomena. They do this through a blend of cohesive and compelling storylines, hands-on investigations, collaborative discussions, literacy-rich activities, and interactive digital tools.
Watch the videos below to learn how our program empowers students to think, read, write, and argue like real scientists and engineers every day.
What Educators Say
The NGSS classroom
EdReports
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Our cyclical lesson design ensures students receive multiple exposures to concepts through a variety of modalities. As they progress through the lessons within a unit, students build and deepen their understanding, increasing their ability to develop and refine complex explanations of the unit’s phenomenon.
It’s this proven program structure and lesson design that enables Amplify Science to teach less, but achieve more. We designed our program to address 100% of the NGSS in just 66 days for grades K–2 and 88 days for grades 3–5.
Unit sequence
Our lessons follow a structure that is grounded in regular routines while still being flexible enough to allow for a variety of learning experiences.
In fact, our multi-modal instruction offers more opportunities for students to construct meaning, and practice and apply concepts than any other program. What’s more, our modular design means our units can be flexibly arranged to support your instructional goals.
Needs of Plants and Animals
Domains: Life Science, Earth and Space Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Investigation
Student role: Scientists
Phenomenon: There are no monarch caterpillars in the Mariposa Grove community garden since vegetables were planted.
Pushes and Pulls
Domains: Physical Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Engineering design
Student role: Pinball engineers
Phenomenon: Pinball machines allow people to control the direction and strength of forces on a ball.
Sunlight and Weather
Domains: Earth and Space Science, Life Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Modeling
Student role: Weather scientists
Phenomenon: Students at Carver Elementary School are too cold during morning recess, while students at Woodland Elementary School are too hot during afternoon recess.
Animal and Plant Defenses
Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Modeling
Student role: Marine scientists
Phenomenon: Spruce the Sea Turtle lives in an aquarium and will soon be released back into the ocean, where she will survive despite ocean predators.
Light and Sound
Domains: Physical Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Engineering design
Student role: Light and sound engineers
Phenomenon: A puppet show company uses light and sound to depict realistic scenes in puppet shows.
Spinning Earth
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Investigation
Student role: Sky scientists
Phenomenon: The sky looks different to Sai and his grandma when they talk on the phone.
Plant and Animal Relationships
Domains: Life Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Investigation
Student role: Plant scientists
Phenomenon: No new chalta trees are growing in the fictional Bengal Tiger Reserve in India.
Properties of Materials
Domains: Physical Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Engineering design
Student role: Glue engineers
Phenomenon: Different glue recipes result in glues that have different properties.
Changing Landforms
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Modeling
Student role: Geologists
Phenomenon: The cliff that Oceanside Recreation Center is situated on appears to be receding over time.
Balancing Forces
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Modeling
Student role: Engineers
Phenomenon: The town of Faraday is getting a new train that floats above its tracks.
Inheritance and Traits
strong>Domain: Life Science
Unit type: Investigation
Student role: Wildlife biologists
Phenomenon: An adopted wolf in Graystone National Park (Wolf 44) has some traits that appear similar to one wolf pack in the park and other traits that appear to be similar to a different wolf pack.
Environments and Survival
Domains: Life Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Engineering design
Student role: Biomimicry engineers
Phenomenon: Over the last 10 years, a population of grove snails has changed: The number of grove snails with yellow shells has decreased, while the number of snails with banded shells has increased.
Weather and Climate
Domains: Earth and Space Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Argumentation
Student role: Meteorologists
Phenomenon: Three different islands, each a contender for becoming an Orangutan reserve, experience different weather patterns.
Energy Conversions
Domains: Physical Science, Earth and Space Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Engineering design
Student role: System engineers
Phenomenon: The fictional town of Ergstown experiences frequent blackouts.
Vision and Light
Domain: Physical Science, Life Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Investigation
Student role: Conservation biologists
Phenomenon: The population of Tokay geckos in a rain forest in the Philippines has decreased since the installation of new highway lights.
Earth's Features
Domain: Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Argumentation
Student role: Geologists
Phenomenon: A mysterious fossil is discovered in a canyon within the fictional Desert Rocks National Park.
Waves, Energy, and Information
Domains: Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Modeling
Student role: Marine scientists
Phenomenon: Mother dolphins in the fictional Blue Bay National Park seem to be communicating with their calves when they are separated at a distance underwater.
Patterns of Earth and Sky
Domains: Physical Science, Earth and Space Science
Unit type: Investigation
Student role: Astronomers
Phenomenon: An ancient artifact depicts what we see in the sky at different times — the sun during the daytime and different stars during the nighttime — but it is missing a piece.
Modeling Matter
Domain: Physical Science
Unit type: Modeling
Student role: Food scientists
Phenomenon: Chromatography is a process for separating mixtures. Some solids dissolve in a salad dressing while others do not. Oil and vinegar appear to separate when mixed in a salad dressing.
The Earth System
Domains: Earth and Space Science, Physical Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Engineering Design
Student role: Water resource engineers
Phenomenon: East Ferris, a city on one side of the fictional Ferris Island, is experiencing a water shortage, while West Ferris is not.
Ecosystem Restoration
Domains:Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science, Engineering Design
Unit type: Argumentation
Student role: Ecologists
Phenomenon: The jaguars, sloths, and cecropia trees in a reforested section of a Costa Rican rain forest are not growing and thriving.
Access program
Watch the video to the right showing you how to navigate our digital platform. When you’re ready, follow the instructions below to log into your live demo account.
Click the orange button below to access the platform.
Explore as a teacher with this username (t1.cartwrightsd@demo.tryamplify.net) and this password (Amplify1-cartwrightsd).
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¡El programa de Amplify ELA da la bienvenida a las familias!
Nos complace dar la bienvenida a usted y a su estudiante al programa Amplify ELA en el nuevo año escolar y brindar a su estudiante excelentes oportunidades educativas a través de nuestro programa. A continuación incluimos una serie de recursos y guías útiles para ayudar a que su estudiante aproveche al máximo nuestra plataforma a lo largo del año. For English version, please click here.
¿Qué es Amplify ELA?
El programa Amplify ELA ayuda a los estudiantes de los grados 6 a 8 a leer y entender textos complejos, animándoles a profundizar en ideas interesantes y reflexionar de forma independiente sobre su relevancia. Amplify ELA es un programa mixto que incluye materiales digitales e impresos, así como una versión únicamente impresa. Los estudiantes que usan Amplify ELA leen pasajes de texto detalladamente, interpretan lo que van descubriendo, conversan con sus compañeros acerca de sus puntos de vista y desarrollan sus ideas por escrito. La estructura de las lecciones es fácil de entender y tiene suficiente flexibilidad como para permitir una variedad de experiencias de aprendizaje que fomenten el interés de los estudiantes.
Entre las características del programa, puede encontrar:
Funcionalidad que permite a cada estudiante trabajar en su propio nivel, a la vez que se le estimula adecuadamente con retos de aprendizaje.
Herramientas integradas que permiten al maestro/la maestra saber cómo progresan los estudiantes en sus trabajos y responder oportunamente.
La Biblioteca Amplify digital, con más de 700 libros descargables de ficción y no ficción.
La aplicación de vocabulario, que usa actividades similares a juegos para ayudar a los estudiantes a dominar las palabras clave de los textos del programa. (Si su estudiante usa materiales impresos, verá las palabras resaltadas).
Tareas de escritura independiente llamadas Solos, disponibles en dispositivos móviles.
Proyectos interactivos conocidos como Quests que acompañan a determinadas unidades para ofrecer oportunidades de práctica adicionales en lectura, escritura, expresión oral y comprensión auditiva con un enfoque analítico.
Para comenzar
Cómo apoyar a su estudiante
Si es posible, lea con su estudiante a diario. Aun 15 minutos de lectura compartida todos los días pueden producir grandes resultados. Pueden leer secciones del texto en voz alta y de forma conjunta. Es posible que, a nivel intermedio, su estudiante disfrute de representar secciones de diálogos asumiendo el papel de alguno de los personajes de una obra o dándole un estilo dramático a algún poema que hayan estado estudiando. Si su estudiante tiene dificultad para leer en voz alta, intente leerle el texto con expresividad y pídale que se lo lea a usted después. Para practicar más, hay una gama de actividades de fluidez en los Días Flex del programa. Pida a su estudiante que le ayude a encontrar estas actividades.
Busque oportunidades para conversar con su estudiante sobre lo que lee y descubre. Ejemplos de preguntas que usted podría plantear: ¿Qué te llamó más la atención en lo que leíste hoy? ¿Hubo alguna oración o palabra que te resultó confusa? ¿Qué fue lo que más te sorprendió? ¿Qué crees que el autor estaba tratando de comunicar? ¿Estás de acuerdo con las ideas o descripciones del autor? ¿Qué conexiones puedes hacer entre lo que estás leyendo y tu propia vida u otros temas?
Escuche a su estudiante leer sus respuestas escritas o pídale que las comparta con un amigo o amiga por teléfono o mediante una aplicación de videollamada.
Visite con su estudiante la Biblioteca Amplify para encontrar libros de su interés que pueda leer con fluidez.
Recomendamos que lea el artículo Proteja a los niños en internet de la Comisión Federal de Comercio sobre seguridad digital.
Descargar textos de la Biblioteca Amplify
Si no tiene acceso continuo a internet en su casa, le sugerimos que descargue los textos esenciales de la biblioteca de Amplify por adelantado. Siga estos pasos para descargar un texto:
Navegue hasta el menú “Program & Apps» en la parte superior de su pantalla y desplácese hasta encontrar el icono «Library». Cuando lo seleccione, la biblioteca Amplify se abrirá en una nueva pestaña.
2. Si se le solicita, siga las instrucciones para configurar un pin para la biblioteca Amplify; de lo contrario, continúe con el siguiente paso.
3. En la esquina superior derecha de su pantalla, busque el libro que desea descargar. Por ejemplo: “The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing”.
4. Ahora ubique el botón de “Download” (descargar).
5. Una vez descargado, podrá acceder a este libro incluso cuando no tenga acceso a Internet. Para acceder a los textos descargados:
En la aplicación de la biblioteca de Amplify, abra el menú desplegable «My Library» (mi biblioteca) en la esquina superior izquierda.
Seleccione “Downloaded” (descargados).
Elija el texto que desea leer de entre todos los textos predescargados.
Vistazo general a los materiales
No todas las escuelas funcionan de la misma manera, pero es probable que los estudiantes que asisten a escuelas que cuentan con las versiones impresa y digital del programa, tengan los siguientes materiales impresos en casa:
Libro del estudiante: Incluye todas las lecturas y actividades necesarias para la enseñanza a lo largo del año. Los estudiantes pueden leer las selecciones tanto en el formato digital como en la versión impresa y hacer apuntes en cualquiera de los dos. Las lecciones de la versión impresa del Libro del estudiante reflejan las lecciones digitales, pero han sido modificadas para que resulten tan eficaces como las digitales.
Cuadernos de escritura: En estos cuadernos, los estudiantes responden a las consignas de escritura y realizan otras tareas escritas.
En caso de que los estudiantes no tengan acceso a los dispositivos o a internet, pueden continuar llevando a cabo tareas clave de lectura y escritura empleando la versión impresa del Libro del estudiante y los Cuadernos de escritura. El maestrotambién puede acceder a las Guías de novelas para los estudiantes e imprimir y enviar por correo hasta doce novelas que comúnmente forman parte del programa de enseñanza. Seis de estas novelas están disponibles en la Biblioteca Amplify y la mayoría de ellas se pueden encontrar en las bibliotecas públicas.
Un vistazo a las unidades
A continuación encontrará resúmenes de cada unidad en las que su estudiante trabajará en su grado durante el año. Junto a cada unidad hay una guía descargable que permite conocer más a detalle cuál es el contenido abarcado y cómo puede ayudar a su estudiante a comprender mejor los temas.
Unidad 6A
La narrativa de Dahl
Cada estudiante comienza con escritura narrativa para aumentar rápidamente su producción de escritura, aprender la destreza básica de enfoque y familiarizarse con los hábitos y rutinas clave del salón de clases que utilizarán todo el año. Luego, aplica su nueva capacidad de observación a entretenidas lecturas de la biografía de Roald Dahl, Boy, y aprende a trabajar de cerca con evidencias del texto.
Unidad 6B
Misterios e investigaciones
Cada estudiante lee con la atención propia de un investigador, embarcándose en un estudio del cautivante mundo del trabajo de detective en distintos géneros literarios. Al final de la unidad, el niño o la niña escribe una composición para explicar cuál es el rasgo más útil de un investigador en la resolución de problemas.
Unidad 6C
Colección acerca del chocolate
Los aztecas lo usaban como moneda, Robert Falcon Scott lo llevó a la Antártida, los nazis diseñaron con él una bomba para matar a Churchill. La historia del chocolate se remonta a 3,700 años en el pasado y está repleta de vicisitudes que la vuelven un tema de investigación gratificante. En esta unidad los y las estudiantes analizan documentos de primera fuente y conducen investigaciones independientes para entender mejor la extraña y maravillosa gama de roles que el chocolate ha desempeñado en el mundo a lo largo de los siglos.
Unidad 6D
Los griegos
Los mitos griegos nos ayudan a entender no solo la cultura griega antigua, sino también el mundo que nos rodea y la función que cumplimos en él. Partiendo de las rutinas y destrezas establecidas en las unidades anteriores, estas lecciones motivan a cada estudiante a dejar atrás el enfoque en una sola persona —él mismo o ella misma o un personaje— para contemplar cuestiones más amplias sobre el papel que las personas desempeñan en el mundo y en las comunidades donde residen.
Unidad 6E
El verano de las mariposas
Las tierras fronterizas de Estados Unidos y México son lugares poblados de leyendas, tanto verdaderas como ficticias. El verano de las mariposas, de Guadalupe García McCall, implanta una versión de la Odisea en este entorno, embarcando a cinco hermanas en una aventura que transcurre en un mundo de héroes y malhechores inspirado en mitos aztecas y leyendas latinoamericanas. La experiencia ayuda a las hermanas a aceptar la disolución del matrimonio de sus padres y a encontrar fortaleza renovada en su identidad de hermanas y en su conexión a un linaje azteca. En esta unidad, cada estudiante analiza el uso que McCall da a la estructura de una epopeya para crear una narración emocionante de aventuras, y cómo la autora hace uso de la narración para celebrar el poder femenino, su herencia latina y una definición más amplia de lo que es una familia. Cada estudiante también tiene oportunidad de comparar el viaje ficticio de las jóvenes a México con la descripción del viaje real de un jovencito a Estados Unidos.
Unidad 6F
Colección acerca del Titanic
Para aprender a diferenciar las fuentes primarias, secundarias y terciarias, determinar si una fuente dada es fiable y entender los usos éticos de la información, cada estudiante formula sus propias preguntas de investigación y busca las respuestas en internet. Asumirá así el papel de uno de los pasajeros o pasajeras de la lista de embarque del Titanic y considerará cuestiones de clase y género, a medida que investiga y escribe relatos desde el punto de vista de los viajeros.
Unidad 6F y unidad 6G
Comenzar a escribir un cuento
En esta unidad cada estudiante puede poner en práctica sus destrezas de escritura creativa, para aprender elementos de narración y desarrollo de personajes, y la importancia del lenguaje vívido. Cada estudiante consigue una noción de propiedad sobre su propia escritura a medida que experimenta los diferentes impactos de sus decisiones autorales en oraciones, lenguaje, rasgos de personajes y giros de la trama.
Unidad 6F
Gramática
En esta unidad cada estudiante completa instrucciones para seguir un aprendizaje autoguiado y practica lo que el maestro y la maestra le asignará durante el año.
Unidad 7A
La narrativa y La joven del pañuelo rojo
En esta unidad se presenta la autobiografía sumamente cautivante de una joven cuya vida transcurre en China durante la Revolución Cultural. Cada estudiante aprende la historia y el contexto político de este periodo, enfocándose en el relato de alguien que vivió en la época de la revolución. A medida que cada estudiante recorre el camino de la protagonista en ese mundo convulsionado, puede apreciar los cambios que se produjeron en los sentimientos y motivaciones de la joven a lo largo del tiempo.
Unidad 7B
Carácter y conflicto
Leyendo Una pasa al sol y Inocentón, cada estudiante explora el tema de las personas que, al enfrentar adversidades, pueden infligir daño en quienes los rodean sin intención de hacerlo. Las dos narrativas se complementan para brindar a cada estudiante oportunidades de analizar las respuestas de los personajes al conflicto y el desarrollo de ideas del autor o la autora en una obra de ficción.
Unidad 7C
La ciencia del cerebro ¿Podrías sobrevivir después de que una vara de hierro te atravesara el cráneo? Phineas Gage lo hizo y su historia, escalofriante pero real, permite desarrollar la información de contexto y analizar otros textos informativos, incluyendo los contemporáneos El hombre que confundió a su mujer con un sombrero y el obviamente relevante La desmitificación del cerebro adolescente.
Unidad 7D
La poesía y Poe
Los textos de Poe siempre tienen mucho para observar, descifrar, comentar y… crisparnos los nervios. Dado que las cosas no siempre son lo que aparentan, cada estudiante usa las destrezas de lectura atenta para cuestionar si debería creer lo que el narrador de Poe les está contando.
Unidad 7E
Colección acerca de Frida y Diego
Los artistas más famosos y provocativos de México, Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, formaron una pareja extraordinaria que vivió en tiempos extraordinarios. Eran almas gemelas con personalidades totalmente opuestas. Las obras de Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo y sus vidas multifacéticas ofrecen a cada estudiante un tema fértil y fascinante para examinar documentos de fuente primaria y conducir investigaciones independientes.
Unidad 7F
Colección acerca de La fiebre del oro
Cada estudiante elige entre una extensa colección de fuentes primarias y secundarias para aprender acerca de la amplia diversidad de personas que participaron en La fiebre del oro de California.
Unidad 7G
Escribir un cuento: nivel intermedio
En esta unidad cada estudiante puede poner en práctica sus destrezas de escritura creativa para aprender elementos de narración y desarrollo de personajes, y la importancia del lenguaje vívido.
Unidad 7
Gramática
En esta unidad cada estudiante completa instrucciones para seguir un aprendizaje autoguiado que el maestro o la maestra le asignará durante el año. Las sub unidades están organizadas por temas clave de gramática, de manera de que el maestro o la maestra pueda asignar el contenido que mejor se acomoda a las necesidades de sus estudiantes mientras se asegura de que trabajen con temas clave de gramática apropiados para su grado.
Unidad 8A
Perspectivas y narrativa Esta unidad procura enseñar a cada estudiante a leer como un escritor o una escritora. Así, pone en práctica la destreza de prestar atención al oficio de la escritura: las decisiones que toma un buen escritor o escritora para darle forma a nuestra percepción de una escena o a nuestros sentimientos hacia un personaje, y para despertar nuestras emociones, sorprendernos o dejarnos pensando en lo que podría suceder después. Cada estudiante lee atentamente ejemplos de narrativas de no ficción, analiza las técnicas que usa cada autor para que sus textos evoquen emociones y practica la aplicación de estas técnicas en sus propios textos narrativos.
Unidad 8B
Libertad e igualdad Analizamos las palabras de varios creadores —desde el poeta Walt Whitman hasta el abolicionista Frederick Douglass y el presidente Abraham Lincoln— para descubrir cómo sus escritos y obras contribuyeron a los cambios extremos de la organización social: un concepto totalmente nuevo de lo que significaba considerar a las personas “iguales”.
Unidad 8C
Ciencias y ciencia ficción Cada estudiante leerá la obra Frankenstein de Gris Grimly, una novela gráfica que integra ilustraciones cautivantes en una versión abreviada de la edición de 1818 del libro de Mary Shelley. Combinadas con el texto de Shelley, las inquietantes —y a veces espeluznantes— representaciones de la criatura de Frankenstein diseñadas por Grimly impulsan a cada estudiante a contemplar algunos de los temas centrales del texto: el origen de la humanidad y la raíz del mal. Luego escribe un ensayo, en el cual, después de argumentar a favor de ambos lados de la cuestión, determina si en última instancia la criatura de Frankenstein debería considerarse humana.
Unidad 8D
Romeo y Julieta, de Shakespeare Romeo y Julieta combina romance y acción, ofreciendo una amplia gama de temas y escenas que cada estudiante puede leer y representar actuando. Cada estudiante de nivel intermedio tiene la edad adecuada para identificarse con los sentimientos intensos de los amantes, y ha alcanzado la madurez suficiente como para analizar de forma crítica las decisiones que toman Romeo y Julieta.
Unidad 8E
El Holocausto: memoria y significado Esta unidad usa una variedad de artículos, imágenes y videos de primera fuente, así como textos de no ficción literaria y no ficción gráfica, para estudiar los sucesos que hicieron posibles las atrocidades del Holocausto. Cada estudiante investiga cómo se generó y se empleó la propaganda para crear un ambiente político que llegó a corromper a toda una sociedad. Las Olimpiadas se observan a través de la lente de una campaña de propaganda internacional, al amparo de la cual los nazis comenzaron a eliminar de su cultura a las personas que no eran de lo que consideraban «raza aria». La sub unidad final examina los resultados de la doctrina nazi y su impacto en las víctimas y sobrevivientes judíos.
Unidad 8F
Colección acerca de La carrera espacial Cada estudiante usa internet para poner a prueba sus destrezas de investigación y lectura atenta, y distingue entre fuentes fiables y fuentes no fiables.
En esta colección los estudiantes exploran documentos primarios y llevan a cabo investigación independiente para comprender mejor esta carrera espacial entre los dos superpoderes del planeta. La dramática historia de la carrera espacial ofrece a cada estudiante un generoso tema de investigación para explorar, mientras desarrollan destrezas de lectoescritura informativa, y aprenden cómo elaborar sus propias preguntas de investigación y exploran Internet en busca de respuestas.
Unidad 8
Gramática
En esta unidad cada estudiante completan instrucciones para seguir un aprendizaje autoguiado que el maestro o la maestra le asignará durante el año. Las sub unidades están organizadas por temas clave de gramática, de manera de que el maestro o la maestra pueda asignar el contenido que mejor se acomoda a las necesidades de sus estudiantes mientras se aseguran de que trabajen con temas clave de gramática apropiados para su grado.
Unidad 8G
Escribir un cuento: nivel avanzado
En esta unidad cada estudiante pueden poner en práctica sus destrezas de escritura creativa, para aprender elementos de narración y desarrollo de personajes. También aprende la importancia del lenguaje vívido para enganchar a sus lectores y atraerles al cuento.
Actividades adicionales
Quests:
Es posible que observe que su estudiante trabaja con sus compañeros en el mismo proyecto interactivo durante varios días, tratando de resolver un misterio o explicar un evento histórico. Eso es lo que sucede cuando un maestro asigna una misión: una exploración en profundidad de una semana de duración que requiere colaboración y profundiza el compromiso con textos y temas.
Aplicación de vocabulario:
La aplicación Vocab ayuda a los estudiantes a dominar el vocabulario a través de actividades similares a juegos que los desafían a pensar en morfología, analogías y sinónimos/antónimos, y a descifrar el significado a través del contexto.
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Amplify Caminos is an authentic elementary Spanish language arts program, grounded in the Science of Reading and built from the ground up for the Spanish language. Amplify Caminos provides explicit, systematic foundational skills instruction sequenced with deep knowledge-building content to foster comprehension.
Digital samples for Grades K–5 are included below along with other helpful materials for completing your review. This video provides an overview of the importance of biliteracy and how Amplify Caminos addresses this critical need.
The Amplify Caminos Program Guide provides an in-depth view of how Amplify Caminos works, how it’s structured, and why it’s uniquely capable of helping you bring the Science of Reading to your bilingual classrooms.
For an even more in-depth look at Amplify Caminos, review the following materials:
Grades K–2: Dedicated knowledge building and authentic Spanish skills instruction Every day in Grades K–2, students complete one full lesson that builds foundational reading skills in Amplify Caminos Lectoescritura (Skills), as well as one full lesson that builds background knowledge in Amplify Caminos Conocimiento (Knowledge). By working in each of these instructional strands, students develop the skills necessary to help them become confident readers and build the context to understand what they’re reading.
Grades 3–5: Integrated instruction Knowledge and Skills are integrated in one set of instructional materials. Lessons begin to combine Spanish language skills and knowledge with increasingly complex original Spanish texts, close reading, and a greater writing emphasis. Students can then use their skills to go on their own independent reading adventures.
Amplify Caminos provides students with a variety of texts including authentic Spanish literature, novel studies, original Spanish Readers, and more. Our K–2 decodable chapter books feature relevant characters and gorgeous illustrations that honor students’ diverse backgrounds within the reading experience.
Strong skills foundation
The skills instruction in Amplify Caminos was distinctly developed with the Spanish language in mind. Its foundational lessons are specific to the language, rather than a direct translation from Amplify CKLA’s English skills instruction.
Amplify CKLA and Caminos, the perfect dual language partners!
Amplify CKLA is a comprehensive elementary English literacy curriculum, grounded in the Science of Reading.
While foundational skills instruction in Amplify Caminos was built to address the unique needs of learning the Spanish language, Amplify Caminos and Amplify CKLA cover the same knowledge building content with transadapted texts. This alignment allows for streamlined and paritable instruction across both languages that is suitable for any dual language implementation model.
¡Les damos la bienvenida, familias de Amplify ELA!
Nos complace darles la bienvenida a usted y a su estudiante al programa Amplify ELA para el nuevo año escolar y brindarles oportunidades de aprendizaje excepcionales a través de ELA. Hemos reunido una serie de recursos y guías que ayudarán a que su estudiante aproveche al máximo nuestra plataforma. Ponemos a su disposición estos materiales para que también usted pueda brindar apoyo a su estudiante a lo largo de todo el año.
Amplify ELA ayuda a los estudiantes de los grados 6 a 8 a leer y comprender textos complejos que los alientan a abordar ideas interesantes y a descubrir, por sí mismos, la relevancia de estos textos. Amplify ELA es un programa mixto que incluye materiales digitales e impresos, pero también se puede utilizar solo de manera impresa. Los estudiantes que usan Amplify ELA leen textos con atención, interpretan lo que encuentran, comparten sus ideas con sus compañeros y desarrollan sus ideas por escrito. La estructura de la lección es fácil de seguir, pero lo suficientemente flexible para permitir diversas experiencias de aprendizaje y lo suficientemente variada para mantener a los estudiantes interesados.
Las características incluyen:
Funcionalidad que permite a cada estudiante trabajar en su propio nivel y enfrentar, al mismo tiempo, desafíos adecuados.
Herramientas integradas que permiten a los maestros realizar un seguimiento y responder al trabajo de los estudiantes.
La biblioteca digital (Amplify Library), que contiene más de 700 libros completos de ficción y no ficción descargables.
La aplicación de vocabulario (Vocab App), que utiliza actividades lúdicas para ayudar a que los estudiantes dominen las palabras clave de los textos del programa. (Los estudiantes que utilicen materiales impresos verán las palabras clave resaltadas.)
Tareas de escritura independientes llamadas Solos, disponibles en dispositivos móviles.
Proyectos interactivos llamados Quests que acompañan a ciertas unidades para proporcionar práctica adicional en las habilidades analíticas de lectura, escritura, habla y escucha.
Primeros pasos
Cómo apoyar a su estudiante en casa:
Si es posible, lea con su estudiante a diario; incluso 15 minutos de lectura juntos al día pueden tener un gran impacto. Pueden leer juntos en voz alta secciones del texto; a muchos estudiantes de secundaria les gusta adoptar el papel de un personaje de una obra de teatro e interpretar parte de sus diálogos o añadir un toque dramático a un poema en el que estén trabajando. Si su estudiante tiene dificultad para leer en voz alta, intente leerle el texto con expresividad y después pida a su estudiante que haga lo mismo. Los días flexibles del programa (Flex Days) tienen una variedad de actividades de fluidez en la lectura que sirven como práctica adicional. Pídale a su estudiante que le ayude a encontrar estas actividades.
Busquen momentos para conversar sobre lo que están leyendo y descubriendo. Por ejemplo, usted podría preguntarle:¿Qué te llamó la atención de lo que leíste hoy? ¿Alguna frase o palabra te resultó confusa? ¿Qué te sorprendió más? ¿Qué crees que intentaba comunicar el autor? ¿Estás de acuerdo con sus ideas o descripciones? ¿Qué conexiones puedes establecer entre lo que lees y tu propia vida u otros temas que hayas escuchado?
Escuche a su estudiante leer sus respuestas escritas o pídale que las comparta con un amigo por teléfono o en una videollamada.
Explore Amplify Library para encontrar libros que su estudiante pueda disfrutar y leer con fluidez por su cuenta.
¡Invitamos a que los estudiantes utilicen los textos básicos de Amplify Library en casa! Por favor, siga los siguientes pasos para poder descargar un texto y poder leerlo sin contar con acceso a internet:
1. Diríjase al menú Programs & Apps (Programas y aplicaciones) ubicado en la parte superior de la pantalla y desplácese hacia abajo hasta encontrar el icono de Amplify Library. Cuando lo seleccione, Amplify Library se abrirá en una nueva pestaña.
2. Si se le solicita, siga las instrucciones para configurar un pin para Amplify Library; de lo contrario, continúe con el siguiente paso.
3. En la esquina superior derecha de la pantalla, busque el libro que desea descargar. Por ejemplo: The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing.
4. Seleccione el botón Download (Descargar).
5. Si pierde el acceso a internet mientras está en Amplify Library, podrá seguir accediendo y leyendo los libros descargados. Si la página se actualiza sin tener conexión a internet o usted intenta iniciar sesión en otro dispositivo sin tener conexión, perderá el acceso a los libros descargados hasta que se restablezca la conexión.
Para recuperar los textos descargados:
Desde la aplicación de Amplify Library, abra el menú desplegable My Library (Mi biblioteca) ubicado en la esquina superior izquierda.
Seleccione Downloaded (Descargados).
Elija el texto que desea leer de entre todos los textos previamente descargados.
Vistazo general a los materiales
No todas las escuelas funcionan de la misma manera, pero los estudiantes que asisten a escuelas que tienen las ediciones impresas y digitales del programa probablemente tienen los siguientes materiales impresos en casa:
Edición para estudiantes (Student Edition): Incluye todas las lecturas y actividades necesarias para la instrucción a lo largo del año. Los estudiantes pueden leer las selecciones tanto en formato digital como impreso y anotar en ambos formatos. Las lecciones de la Edición para estudiantes impresa reflejan cada lección digital, pero se han modificado para que funcionen eficazmente en formato impreso.
Diarios de escritura (Writing Journals): Este espacio proporciona a los estudiantes la posibilidad de responder a indicaciones de escritura (Writing Prompts) y completar otras tareas escritas.
En el caso de que los estudiantes no tengan acceso a dispositivos o Internet, pueden continuar completando tareas clave de lectura y escritura utilizando las Ediciones para estudiantes impresas y los Diarios de escritura para estudiantes.
Los maestros también pueden acceder a, imprimir y enviar por correo las guías de novelas (Novel Guides) para estudiantes. Las guías abarcan hasta 12 novelas que suelen enseñarse en las escuelas. Seis de estas novelas están disponibles en Amplify Library y la mayoría debería estar disponible en una biblioteca pública.
Reseñas de unidades
A continuación, se presentan breves descripciones generales de cada unidad que su estudiante estudiará en su grado a lo largo del año. Con cada unidad se incluye una guía descargable que ofrece un repaso más detallado del contenido cubierto y de cómo puede ayudar a su estudiante a profundizar en la comprensión de los temas.
Unidad 6A
La narrativa de Dahl
Cada estudiante comienza con escritura narrativa para aumentar rápidamente su producción de escritura, aprender la destreza básica de enfoque y familiarizarse con los hábitos y rutinas clave del salón de clases que utilizarán todo el año. Luego, aplica su nueva capacidad de observación a entretenidas lecturas de la biografía de Roald Dahl, Boy, y aprende a trabajar de cerca con evidencias del texto.
Unidad 6B
Misterios e investigaciones
Cada estudiante lee con la atención propia de un investigador, embarcándose en un estudio del cautivante mundo del trabajo de detective en distintos géneros literarios. Al final de la unidad, el niño o la niña escribe una composición para explicar cuál es el rasgo más útil de un investigador en la resolución de problemas.
Unidad 6C
Colección acerca del chocolate
Los aztecas lo usaban como moneda, Robert Falcon Scott lo llevó a la Antártida, los nazis diseñaron con él una bomba para matar a Churchill. La historia del chocolate se remonta a 3,700 años en el pasado y está repleta de vicisitudes que la vuelven un tema de investigación gratificante. En esta unidad los y las estudiantes analizan documentos de primera fuente y conducen investigaciones independientes para entender mejor la extraña y maravillosa gama de roles que el chocolate ha desempeñado en el mundo a lo largo de los siglos.
Unidad 6D
Los griegos
Los mitos griegos nos ayudan a entender no solo la cultura griega antigua, sino también el mundo que nos rodea y la función que cumplimos en él. Partiendo de las rutinas y destrezas establecidas en las unidades anteriores, estas lecciones motivan a cada estudiante a dejar atrás el enfoque en una sola persona —él mismo o ella misma o un personaje— para contemplar cuestiones más amplias sobre el papel que las personas desempeñan en el mundo y en las comunidades donde residen.
Unidad 6E
El verano de las mariposas
Las tierras fronterizas de Estados Unidos y México son lugares poblados de leyendas, tanto verdaderas como ficticias. El verano de las mariposas, de Guadalupe García McCall, implanta una versión de la Odisea en este entorno, embarcando a cinco hermanas en una aventura que transcurre en un mundo de héroes y malhechores inspirado en mitos aztecas y leyendas latinoamericanas. La experiencia ayuda a las hermanas a aceptar la disolución del matrimonio de sus padres y a encontrar fortaleza renovada en su identidad de hermanas y en su conexión a un linaje azteca. En esta unidad, cada estudiante analiza el uso que McCall da a la estructura de una epopeya para crear una narración emocionante de aventuras, y cómo la autora hace uso de la narración para celebrar el poder femenino, su herencia latina y una definición más amplia de lo que es una familia. Cada estudiante también tiene oportunidad de comparar el viaje ficticio de las jóvenes a México con la descripción del viaje real de un jovencito a Estados Unidos.
Unidad 6F
Colección acerca del Titanic
Para aprender a diferenciar las fuentes primarias, secundarias y terciarias, determinar si una fuente dada es fiable y entender los usos éticos de la información, cada estudiante formula sus propias preguntas de investigación y busca las respuestas en internet. Asumirá así el papel de uno de los pasajeros o pasajeras de la lista de embarque del Titanic y considerará cuestiones de clase y género, a medida que investiga y escribe relatos desde el punto de vista de los viajeros.
Unidad 6F y unidad 6G
Comenzar a escribir un cuento
En esta unidad cada estudiante puede poner en práctica sus destrezas de escritura creativa, para aprender elementos de narración y desarrollo de personajes, y la importancia del lenguaje vívido. Cada estudiante consigue una noción de propiedad sobre su propia escritura a medida que experimenta los diferentes impactos de sus decisiones autorales en oraciones, lenguaje, rasgos de personajes y giros de la trama.
Unidad 6F
Gramática
En esta unidad cada estudiante completa instrucciones para seguir un aprendizaje autoguiado y practica lo que el maestro y la maestra le asignará durante el año.
Unidad 7A
La narrativa y La joven del pañuelo rojo
En esta unidad se presenta la autobiografía sumamente cautivante de una joven cuya vida transcurre en China durante la Revolución Cultural. Cada estudiante aprende la historia y el contexto político de este periodo, enfocándose en el relato de alguien que vivió en la época de la revolución. A medida que cada estudiante recorre el camino de la protagonista en ese mundo convulsionado, puede apreciar los cambios que se produjeron en los sentimientos y motivaciones de la joven a lo largo del tiempo.
Unidad 7B
Carácter y conflicto
Leyendo Una pasa al sol y Inocentón, cada estudiante explora el tema de las personas que, al enfrentar adversidades, pueden infligir daño en quienes los rodean sin intención de hacerlo. Las dos narrativas se complementan para brindar a cada estudiante oportunidades de analizar las respuestas de los personajes al conflicto y el desarrollo de ideas del autor o la autora en una obra de ficción.
Unidad 7C
La ciencia del cerebro ¿Podrías sobrevivir después de que una vara de hierro te atravesara el cráneo? Phineas Gage lo hizo y su historia, escalofriante pero real, permite desarrollar la información de contexto y analizar otros textos informativos, incluyendo los contemporáneos El hombre que confundió a su mujer con un sombrero y el obviamente relevante La desmitificación del cerebro adolescente.
Unidad 7D
La poesía y Poe
Los textos de Poe siempre tienen mucho para observar, descifrar, comentar y… crisparnos los nervios. Dado que las cosas no siempre son lo que aparentan, cada estudiante usa las destrezas de lectura atenta para cuestionar si debería creer lo que el narrador de Poe les está contando.
Unidad 7E
Colección acerca de Frida y Diego
Los artistas más famosos y provocativos de México, Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, formaron una pareja extraordinaria que vivió en tiempos extraordinarios. Eran almas gemelas con personalidades totalmente opuestas. Las obras de Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo y sus vidas multifacéticas ofrecen a cada estudiante un tema fértil y fascinante para examinar documentos de fuente primaria y conducir investigaciones independientes.
Unidad 7F
Colección acerca de La fiebre del oro
Cada estudiante elige entre una extensa colección de fuentes primarias y secundarias para aprender acerca de la amplia diversidad de personas que participaron en La fiebre del oro de California.
Unidad 7G
Escribir un cuento: nivel intermedio
En esta unidad cada estudiante puede poner en práctica sus destrezas de escritura creativa para aprender elementos de narración y desarrollo de personajes, y la importancia del lenguaje vívido.
Unidad 7
Gramática
En esta unidad cada estudiante completa instrucciones para seguir un aprendizaje autoguiado que el maestro o la maestra le asignará durante el año. Las sub unidades están organizadas por temas clave de gramática, de manera de que el maestro o la maestra pueda asignar el contenido que mejor se acomoda a las necesidades de sus estudiantes mientras se asegura de que trabajen con temas clave de gramática apropiados para su grado.
Unidad 8A
Perspectivas y narrativa Esta unidad procura enseñar a cada estudiante a leer como un escritor o una escritora. Así, pone en práctica la destreza de prestar atención al oficio de la escritura: las decisiones que toma un buen escritor o escritora para darle forma a nuestra percepción de una escena o a nuestros sentimientos hacia un personaje, y para despertar nuestras emociones, sorprendernos o dejarnos pensando en lo que podría suceder después. Cada estudiante lee atentamente ejemplos de narrativas de no ficción, analiza las técnicas que usa cada autor para que sus textos evoquen emociones y practica la aplicación de estas técnicas en sus propios textos narrativos.
Unidad 8B
Libertad e igualdad Analizamos las palabras de varios creadores —desde el poeta Walt Whitman hasta el abolicionista Frederick Douglass y el presidente Abraham Lincoln— para descubrir cómo sus escritos y obras contribuyeron a los cambios extremos de la organización social: un concepto totalmente nuevo de lo que significaba considerar a las personas “iguales”.
Unidad 8C
Ciencias y ciencia ficción Cada estudiante leerá la obra Frankenstein de Gris Grimly, una novela gráfica que integra ilustraciones cautivantes en una versión abreviada de la edición de 1818 del libro de Mary Shelley. Combinadas con el texto de Shelley, las inquietantes —y a veces espeluznantes— representaciones de la criatura de Frankenstein diseñadas por Grimly impulsan a cada estudiante a contemplar algunos de los temas centrales del texto: el origen de la humanidad y la raíz del mal. Luego escribe un ensayo, en el cual, después de argumentar a favor de ambos lados de la cuestión, determina si en última instancia la criatura de Frankenstein debería considerarse humana.
Unidad 8D
Romeo y Julieta, de Shakespeare Romeo y Julieta combina romance y acción, ofreciendo una amplia gama de temas y escenas que cada estudiante puede leer y representar actuando. Cada estudiante de nivel intermedio tiene la edad adecuada para identificarse con los sentimientos intensos de los amantes, y ha alcanzado la madurez suficiente como para analizar de forma crítica las decisiones que toman Romeo y Julieta.
Unidad 8E
El Holocausto: memoria y significado Esta unidad usa una variedad de artículos, imágenes y videos de primera fuente, así como textos de no ficción literaria y no ficción gráfica, para estudiar los sucesos que hicieron posibles las atrocidades del Holocausto. Cada estudiante investiga cómo se generó y se empleó la propaganda para crear un ambiente político que llegó a corromper a toda una sociedad. Las Olimpiadas se observan a través de la lente de una campaña de propaganda internacional, al amparo de la cual los nazis comenzaron a eliminar de su cultura a las personas que no eran de lo que consideraban “raza aria”. La sub unidad final examina los resultados de la doctrina nazi y su impacto en las víctimas y sobrevivientes judíos.
Unidad 8F
Colección acerca de La carrera espacial Cada estudiante usa internet para poner a prueba sus destrezas de investigación y lectura atenta, y distingue entre fuentes fiables y fuentes no fiables.
En esta colección los estudiantes exploran documentos primarios y llevan a cabo investigación independiente para comprender mejor esta carrera espacial entre los dos superpoderes del planeta. La dramática historia de la carrera espacial ofrece a cada estudiante un generoso tema de investigación para explorar, mientras desarrollan destrezas de lectoescritura informativa, y aprenden cómo elaborar sus propias preguntas de investigación y exploran Internet en busca de respuestas.
Unidad 8
Gramática
En esta unidad cada estudiante completan instrucciones para seguir un aprendizaje autoguiado que el maestro o la maestra le asignará durante el año. Las sub unidades están organizadas por temas clave de gramática, de manera de que el maestro o la maestra pueda asignar el contenido que mejor se acomoda a las necesidades de sus estudiantes mientras se aseguran de que trabajen con temas clave de gramática apropiados para su grado.
Unidad 8G
Escribir un cuento: nivel avanzado
En esta unidad cada estudiante pueden poner en práctica sus destrezas de escritura creativa, para aprender elementos de narración y desarrollo de personajes. También aprende la importancia del lenguaje vívido para enganchar a sus lectores y atraerles al cuento.
Actividades adicionales
Quests:
Quizás observe que su estudiante trabaja con sus compañeros en el mismo proyecto interactivo durante varios días, intentando resolver un misterio o explicar un acontecimiento histórico. Eso es lo que sucede cuando un maestro asigna una misión (Quest): una exploración minuciosa de una semana que requiere colaboración y ayuda a profundizar la interacción con los textos y con los temas tratados.
Vocab App:
La aplicación de vocabulario (Vocab App) ayuda a los estudiantes a dominar las palabras del vocabulario a través de actividades lúdicas que los hacen pensar en la morfología, la analogía y los sinónimos y antónimos, y a descifrar el significado a través del contexto.
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