Kyrene, welcome to Amplify ELA!

Welcome to the Amplify ELA review site for Kyrene School District. This site is designed to help you learn about Amplify ELA—a core English Language Arts curriculum for Grades 6–8 and the middle school counterpart to Amplify CKLA. Like K-5, Amplify ELA is built on the same Science of Reading instructional strategies to help middle schoolers grow as readers, writers, and thinkers. Additionally, here are a few important documents so you can rest assured that Amplify ELA is aligned to Arizona’s English Language Arts standards.

Amplify ELA’s alignment to Arizona standards

Amplify ELA’s correlations to Arizona standards

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Overview Presentation

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

What is Amplify ELA?

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

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

Interested in learning more about the research behind the program?

Click the link to access the Amplify ELA Research Hub.

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Amplify ELA Program Guide

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Program effectiveness

How does it work?

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

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

Grade 6: Program structure

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Grade 7: Program structure

Grade 8: Program structure

What do students explore?

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

Download the unit overviews below to learn more.

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Grade 6: Unit overviews

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Grade 7: Unit overviews

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Grade 8: Unit overviews

How does it engage all students?

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

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

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Amplify ELA Novel Guides

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Amplify ELA Library

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Principles of engagement

Differentiation

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

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

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Differentiation for all students

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Support for Multilingual Learners

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Differentiated Writing Prompts

Assessment

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

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

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

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

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

Access demo

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

Explore as a teacher

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

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

Explore as a student

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

  • Click the ELA Student Platform button below.
  • Select Log in with Amplify.
  • Enter this username: s1.kyrenerfp@demo.tryamplify.net
  • Enter this password: Amplify1-kyrenerfp
Access ELA Student Platform

Contact Us

If you have any questions about Amplify ELA, please don’t hesitate to contact:

Tommy Gearhart

Senior Account Executive

505-206-7661

tgearhart@amplify.com