Exciting updates for Amplify CKLA

Updates

Amplify CKLA 3rd Edition program improvements

You can expect several exciting updates to your Amplify CKLA experience throughout the school year, including:

• New Amplify CKLA and Amplify Caminos Admin Reports coming Jan. 2027, including a student performance report and additional data download export options.
• Caregiver Letters that summarize student performance on each end-of-unit assessment.
• K–2 Read-Aloud videos to support student absences.
• Teacher Presentation Screens that are assignable to students and allow you to either share the slides as-is or turn them into digital activities in which you can control pacing and view student work.
• Lesson screens that are downloadable and printable for offline viewing.
• Teacher Moves that will be easier to use in Companion Mode on a second device or in another tab.
• New resources for Kindergarten, including assignable and engaging digital practice games and guidance on letter-naming routines. 
• More resources to guide teachers, like strategies to support students with varied needs, writing building block routines for each grade level, instructional guidance, and a feedback toolkit.

Assessment enhancements

We’re making 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 provide teachers with powerful insights to gather data about the students in their classrooms! You will also be able to download caregiver-facing letters that summarize student performance on each end-of-unit assessment. These enhancements are available on the platform, where you can administer assessments digitally or print using the updated files. As you teach the program, our assessments will help you understand if your students are learning to comprehend text and vocabulary, and support you as you develop various components of their comprehension.

New instructional routine videos

Modeling videos demonstrate best practices and help you implement Amplify CKLA K–2 Skills instruction with confidence. These instructional routine modeling videos and paired PDF guide are embedded directly in the digital platform to streamline lesson preparation and delivery.

Amplify Classroom updates

This school year, we’re improving the overall classroom experience with platform enhancements that make lessons easier to navigate and instruction easier to manage.

• Starting in January, students will be able to upload audio and photos into open-response fields (with transcription available).
• We’re making updates to our Recently Visited section on Educator Home. You’ll see both activity and units reflected there, where you’ll also be able to star a unit or lesson to pin it to the front of your list.
•  Presentation tools are expanding with Companion Mode, Projector Mode, and Sketch Everywhere, making it easier to facilitate lessons, annotate in real time, and manage instruction from anywhere in the room.
• The new Snapshots feature makes it easy to select and sequence student work when facilitating class discussions. 
• You will also have the option to use our redesigned Activity pages, which feature a left sidebar, informational tabs, and lesson screens at the top of the page. This reconfiguration allows you to immediately see each lesson and more easily access relevant resources and tools. You will be able to turn on the new design—or turn it off to return to the original design—with a toggle located on the page.
• Starting in December, you’ll be 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 assign digital activities to select students now, and even name the group you’ve selected for future use in the Assign feature. Named groups will be saved in the Admin Portal. You can also use the Admin Portal to create or edit groups, as well as add or remove staff or students.

Teacher tools

We’ve developed new tools to enhance your connection and collaboration with families! These teacher tools streamline home connections by allowing you to generate your own caregiver materials. Access the following three tools in your Program & Apps menu to create PDFs for easy downloading or printing:

• Newsletter generator
• Reading practice generator
• Caregiver Letter translator

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

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 their 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.

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 flexible components 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.

Amplify Caminos 3rd Edition

We’re thrilled to announce Amplify Caminos 3rd Edition, our Spanish language arts program and companion to CKLA 3rd Edition, which creates a cohesive path to biliteracy for students in bilingual and dual language programs. Built from the ground up for Spanish, Amplify Caminos offers everything you need to teach with clarity and purpose: foundational skills instruction, authentic texts, knowledge-rich content, and alignment with Amplify CKLA.

This 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.