Rochester City School District K-2 Foundational Skills: Explore Amplify CKLA (English) and Caminos (Spanish)

Every day in the CKLA/Caminos Lectoescritura classroom, students will practice their existing reading skills while stretching themselves toward new goals. In K–2, each day includes dedicated skills time to help you give students a solid foundation.

Start with the sound

All instruction starts with phonological awareness, which research has shown to benefit the greatest number of students.

Students begin by learning to recognize sounds, as well as to articulate them.

Build to the phoneme

All instruction starts with phonological awareness, which research has shown to benefit the greatest number of students. Students begin by learning to recognize sounds, as well as to articulate them.

Crack the code

Once students can recognize sounds, they learn to form the corresponding letter codes. CKLA starts by teaching the sound-spellings that appear most frequently in English, which lets your students read and write as many words as possible, as soon as possible.

Grow in complexity

The lessons continue to challenge students as they progress, introducing complications like multisyllabic words, “tricky words,” and homophones. In each case, students encounter complications as they become ready for them.

We have created reviewer accounts for you to explore Amplify CKLA and Caminos Lectoescritura for Grades K-2. Below are instructions on how to log in and navigate.

How to log into the curriculum website:

• Using a Google Chrome or Safari web browser, go to learning.amplify.com and select “Log in with Amplify”. (Note, if your school uses multiple Amplify products, you may also use my.amplify.com to locate all products in one place.) 
• Enter the following information:
  • Teacher username: t1.rcsd-k2skills@demo.tryamplify.net
  • Teacher password: Amplify1-rcsd-k2skills
  • Student username: s1.rcsd-k2skills@demo.tryamplify.net
  • Student password: Amplify1-rcsd-k2skills
• Please note, these demo accounts expire on: June 20, 2023

Resources to get started:

• To learn more and to also see samples visit our Reviewer’s website
• Once logged in, check out the Professional Learning section to see a ton of teaching tools such as demo lessons.

Access CKLA/Caminos Curriculum Site

Built out of the latest research in the Science of Reading, Amplify CKLA and Caminos Lectoescritura delivers explicit instruction in foundational literacy skills (systematic phonics, decoding, and fluency) in grades K–2.

Review this Science of Reading Toolkit to learn more about the Science of Reading best practices integrated throughout CKLA.

Great reading instruction starts with helping kids develop great decoding skills. By building a solid foundation of phonological awareness and phonics, reading the words on the page becomes automatic so that comprehension and critical thinking can happen.

Our instruction is supported by:

• Step-by-step lessons with multisensory approaches, clear lesson objectives, and embedded formative assessments.
• Decodable books and student readers with ebook and audiobook versions that feature engaging plots and relatable characters.
• An engaging sound library with fun songs and videos that develop phonological awareness.
• An interactive Vocab App featuring engaging activities with immediate feedback and automated, customized instruction based on student performance.

From the printed page to the screen, we bring foundational skills and knowledge of the world to your young learners, and make the transition from classroom to home learning seamless.

Download the Amplify CKLA Components Guide to see components by grade.

Amplify Caminos Lectoescritura 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.

Amplify Caminos al Conocimiento Esencial, an equitable Spanish language arts program for Grades K–5 that will inspire and engage your students to become confident readers, writers, and thinkers.

It is designed to support any biliteracy model, including English as a Second Language (ESL), transitional bilingual programs, dual language strands, and Spanish immersion programs.

When used in tandem with Amplify CKLA, Amplify Caminos Lectoescritura provides a fully equitable, one-to-one English and Spanish solution.