Exciting updates for Amplify CKLA

Big things are coming next school year! Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) 3rd Edition is introducing new enhancements to save you time, extend your impact, and support you in delivering the dynamic learning experiences your students deserve.

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Updates

Amplify CKLA 3rd Edition program improvements

For the next school year, you can expect several exciting updates to your Amplify CKLA experience, including:

  • Caregiver-facing letters that summarize student performance on each end-of-unit assessment.
  • The availability of K-2 Read-Aloud Videos to support student absences.
  • Teacher Presentation Screens and Digital Activities printable, allowing you to work offline or support students who need to be working in print.
  • Teacher Presentation Screens assignable to students, either allowing you to share the slides as they are or turn them into digital activities with the ability to control pacing and view student work digitally.
  • Teacher Moves that will be easier to use in Companion Mode on a second device or in another tab.
  • New resources for Kindergarten, including guidance on letter naming routines and engaging digital practice games that can be assigned to students. 
  • More guidance resources including strategies for teachers to support students with varied needs; writing building block routines for each grade level; instructional guidance and feedback toolkit.
Three pastel-colored cards labeled “Nursery Rhymes and Fables,” “Different Lands, Similar Stories,” and “Greek Myths” display CKLA Read Alouds with lesson numbers, highlighting engaging stories from diverse traditions.

Digital assessment enhancements

We’re making digital assessments more comprehensive for the new school year, adding in open-ended questions (for Grades 2–5) and a three-point scoring rubric. These features will make them an even more powerful tool to gather data about the students in your classroom! You will also be able to download caregiver-facing letters that summarize student performance on each end-of-unit assessment. As you teach the program, digital assessments will help you understand if students are learning to comprehend text and vocabulary, as well as develop various components of comprehension.

A dashboard displays student assessment results for "CKLA Astronomy," showing score distribution by item, color-coded bars, and an itemized score table for each student.

New instructional routines videos

Modeling videos demonstrate best practices and help you implement Amplify CKLA K-2 Skills instruction with confidence. The instructional routine modeling videos and paired PDF guides will be embedded directly in the program to streamline your lesson preparation and delivery.

Platform updates

This back to school season, we’re improving the overall classroom experience with platform enhancements that make lessons easier to navigate and instruction easier to manage. Presentation tools are expanding, making it easier to facilitate lessons, annotate in real time, and manage instruction from anywhere in the room.

You will also have the option to use our redesigned Activity Landing Pages, which feature a left sidebar, informational tabs, and lesson screens at the top of the page. This optional reconfiguration allows you to immediately see each lesson and more easily access relevant resources and tools.

As of December, you are able to filter Stream by student name and see all assignments for a particular student. This includes the ability to preview student work right from the Stream to check in on student progress. You can also now assign digital activities to select students and even name the group they’ve selected for future use in the Assign feature. Named groups will be saved in the Admin Portal. You should also use the Admin Portal to create or edit groups, as well as add or remove staff or students.

New supplemental program: Language Studio for Amplify CKLA 3rd Edition

Releasing for the coming back-to-school season, Language Studio is an add-on program that uses the same structure, knowledge sequence, and Science of Reading foundation of Amplify CKLA 3rd Edition to help multilingual/English learners (ML/ELs) access core content and strengthen language skills. These lessons preview and reinforce Amplify CKLA 3rd Edition content to meet the needs of all K–5 ML/ELs.

This supplemental program is available to purchase for an extra cost.

Screenshot of a CKLA lesson plan for vocabulary building about the Middle Ages, including instructions, a timeline, and a worksheet for cutting and writing vocabulary cards.

Language Studio Teacher Guide Grade 4. Unit 2: Knights and Castles: Europe’s Middle Ages: Lesson 1

Language Studio Student Activity Book Grade 4. Unit 2: Knights and Castles: Europe’s Middle Ages: Lesson 1

New Grades 4 and 5 Skills supplements

Also available for the new school year: Grades 4 and 5 Skills instruction. Similar to Grade 3 Skills, Grades 4 and 5 Skills supplements are a flexible component for reteaching and additional practice. You can use these extra lessons to support core instruction or serve as an intervention, depending on your students’ needs. Instruction follows a familiar sequence and can be taught flexibly, in either two 15-minute sessions or one 30-minute session.

This supplemental program is available to purchase for an extra cost.

Noteworthy features

Free content for you to explore

You can use the Discover button to access free content from other Amplify programs, and even assign these free activities to your students via the digital platform.

Caregiver Hub

Throughout the school year, teachers can share the Amplify CKLA and Amplify Caminos Caregiver Hubs with students’ caregivers. These sites provide curriculum details, an overview of what caregivers can expect throughout the school year, and resources they can use with students at home.

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