Welcome LAUSD CKLA teachers!

You may be looking for tools to help make instruction in CKLA even easier. Here’s a guide on where to find the top tools for CKLA instruction, followed by some logistics about the new materials you’ll be receiving.

The 4.5-minute video below provides a walk-thru of the main resources found online for every unit, including tips on finding and using them. Want to find just a particular piece? I’ve time-stamped it for you! Feel free to skip ahead.

• What’s on the CKLA Hub
• What’s on the Teacher Resource Site
• ELD supports
• Caminos materials
• Assessments
• Supports for struggling students

A strong literacy program is about more than just a reading program or an assessment tool—it brings together curriculum, instruction, regular practice, differentiation, and assessments that measure where students are, where they need to go, and what is needed to promote ongoing success. CKLA, Amplify Reading, and mCLASS^® work together to build strong readers.

Instead of pulling resources from different places and wondering what students need, you can use CKLA, Amplify Reading, and mCLASS to support students in all different types of settings. The chart below shares more about the connections between DIBELS^® 8 measures, CKLA instruction, and activities in Amplify Reading.

We can even take this a step further and use CKLA Connect within the mCLASS platform! CKLA Connect matches small groups with targeted Amplify CKLA lessons based on their mCLASS assessment data, helping you get the data you need with powerful reporting and instant recommendations of which Amplify CKLA activities can be used to reteach or remediate specific skills.

Check out the below video to learn more about the CKLA Connect feature and how to access it.

We partnered with some of the most prominent cognitive scientists and leading experts in education to bring you a content-rich, systematic, and engaging curriculum that ensures all LAUSD students have a chance to make significant leaps in their literacy journey.
This guide will help your campus personnel and classroom teachers receive and organize the materials included in your shipment.

Want to see some example lessons? Here are two videos that show a primary and upper elementary example. There are many more examples that teachers have posted from Amplify partner districts. Check us out in the Schoology group for more ideas.

CKLA Grade 1 Skills lesson video
CKLA: Grade 4 lesson video

We wanted to take a moment to share CKLA’s approach to teaching diverse topics. Preparing students to become successful 21st-century citizens requires building both their academic skills and their cultural competency.

CKLA’s unique knowledge-centered approach allows students to explore great civilizations, meet remarkable people, and examine world-changing events and ideas—all while developing as proficient readers, writers, and conversationalists. CKLA introduces students to individuals with a broad range of identity factors, including socioeconomic status, age, ability, race, ethnicity, country of origin, religion, citizenship status, and more.

Daily read-alouds and authentic texts give students the chance to dive deeper into the knowledge needed for strong comprehension. Want to know more about why read-alouds are so important? Check out this article from the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

ReadWorks articles support the Amplify CKLA Knowledge Sequence in deepening students’ content knowledge and helping them to develop rich vocabulary. Experiencing the world through different lenses allows students to connect ideas across topics. These articles enhance comprehension and expand student knowledge. There are ReadWorks articles for every domain and unit.

To see which ReadWorks articles align with your Amplify CKLA pilot unit, refer to the About ReadWorks page on the CKLA Hub, or watch this quick video for more.