Welcome LAUSD CKLA teachers!

On this site, you’ll find teacher tips, videos, and classroom photos to guide your implementation of Amplify’s CKLA® curriculum.

Want to submit your own tip? Share your ideas in the LAUSD Schoology group

Back to LAUSD CKLA K–5

Classroom Materials

Thank you for choosing to pilot our elementary core ELA solutions. To support you in preparing for and familiarizing yourself with your grade-level resources for CKLA and Caminos, please review the Classroom Material Handbook. This handbook will provide additional information about your programs, implementation training, and classroom materials.

This handbook is not intended to be printed in its entirety; select and print applicable grade-level pages including inventory lists.

Teacher tips

LAUSD CKLA pilot schoology group

Our Schoology group for all CKLA pilot teachers in LAUSD is a great go-to community for program resources, tips, collaboration, and other helpful information you might find useful during your pilot experience.

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Live! Tips for teaching CKLA

Join us every other Wednesday from 3–4 p.m. for bi-weekly Wednesday Tips for Teaching CKLA (active until June 10). We encourage you to utilize this time to learn a tip or two for teaching CKLA, ask questions, and talk with experts. 

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Making CKLA your own

 

You’ve probably taken a look through your Teacher Guide and thought: Will my students even be able to understand these higher-level CKLA topics? (e.g., Early World Civilizations in Grade 1) Will my students even be interested in this?

The answer is a big YES!

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More teacher tips

  • Finding top CKLA tools

  • Connecting CKLA to mCLASS and Amplify Reading

  • LAUSD TK–6 ELA pilot: Inventory guide

  • Example lessons

  • The importance of read-alouds

  • Amplify CKLA & ReadWorks partnership

Share your ideas

Submit a tip

Have ideas you’d like to share with others? We can’t wait to hear them!

Share your ideas in the LAUSD Schoology group for an opportunity to be featured on the LAUSD CKLA teacher tip page.

Submit a photo

Captured pictures to support your tip(s)? We can’t wait to see them!

 

Submit a photo* by in the LAUSD Schoology group.

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Pictures! LAUSD classrooms

twitter post with four classroom images of animal classification dioramas

Animal classifications

Check out @MrsSidneyEdu’s classroom completing animal habitat dioramas!

Decoding games

Students in @MrsSichko’s class have fun practicing decoding while playing games.

twitter post with a classroom bulletin board image of student’s poetry

Poetry on display

 Beautiful poetry created by students in @m_medina’s class for Red Ribbon week!

twitter post with four classroom images of student’s five senses, animal creations.

Building empathy and perspectives

Students in @IndianaAreaSD create projects anchored in text that’s fun and engaging in many ways!

twitter post with three classroom bulletin boards displaying components of the poetry lesson and student work

Analyzing poetry

Watch student growth happen as students learn about poetry and begin to create their own at @WilsonES_IASD.

twitter post with two classroom bulletin boards displaying components of the parts of speech lesson

Building skills in upper grades

Building skills in CKLA goes beyond Grade 4! See how students learn about affixes at @CarollES_AISD.

Velcro sound spelling cards

Velcro sound spelling cards

This Grade 2 teacher is attaching velcro sound spelling cards to the Consonants Code Flip Book (CCFB).

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