What’s New in Amplify CKLA 3rd Edition

Amplify CKLA 3rd Edition builds on the principles and instruction of previous editions to provide better-than-ever support for teaching and learning. We’ve made significant improvements to Amplify CKLA in the areas you told us mattered most.

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Two students sitting at a classroom desk, writing in workbooks.

The next chapter in the Science of Reading

With the 3rd Edition, Amplify CKLA has built on that foundation to bring you the next chapter in the Science of Reading. The 3rd Edition helps you translate the latest research into practice through:

  • A powerful and enhanced Knowledge Sequence with streamlined pacing
  • Integrated writing instruction based on the Science of Writing, the body of research on how students best learn to write
  • More opportunities for differentiation to meet the needs of all learners (including multilingual/English learners)

The Knowledge Sequence you know and love, updated for today’s classroom

The enhanced Knowledge Sequence includes:

  • Streamlined pacing: 165 days of instruction for K–2 Knowledge Domains and 3–5 Units
  • New and updated units: Updates to existing units and brand-new units that include Geography, Poetry, and Oceans
  • Research Units: Each grade features a culminating Research Unit centered around a trade book set.
  • Choice Units: Each grade includes two units with flexible
    options at the district level.
Three Amplify CKLA teacher guide and activity books titled Charting the World: Geography, The Deep Blue World: Oceans, and Rhythm and Rhyme: Poetry.
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All-in-one, interactive digital platform

Our comprehensive platform simplifies your day-to-day tasks and makes it easier to plan and deliver lessons.

  • Ready-made and customizable Presentation Screens
  • Auto-scored digital assessments
  • Standards-based reporting
  • Assignable skill-building games
  • Sound Library
  • eReaders

Digital assessments help you track progress toward standards mastery

Access detailed insights from both digital assessments and digital student activities, and see strengths and growth opportunities for individual students, small groups, or an entire class.

A laptop screen displaying student assessment previews, including a multiple-choice grammar exercise and a scoring report for a domain assessment.
A page from a teacher’s lesson plan about space travel, layered over a summary table for supporting multilingual learners with writing topic sentences.

Writing instruction grounded in the Science of Writing

The 3rd Edition builds on the learn to write, write to learn approach of previous editions through key enhancements in K–2 Knowledge Domains and Grades 3–5 units.

Writing enhancements in 3rd Edition include:

  • Daily writing in K–2 Knowledge Domains and 3–5 Units with authentic writing tasks.
  • Sentence expansion routines consistently integrated into lessons with supports built in for all students including multilingual/English learners.
  • Deep focus on planning and revising to build a strong foundation.
Six children’s book covers: The Top of the World, The Green Fern Zoo, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Tito Puente, Rattenborough’s Guide to Animals, and The Season of Styx Malone.

High-quality, authentic literature

Amplify CKLA students are immersed in a rich array of texts—including complex read-alouds, decodable readers, novel studies, and trade books—that reflect diverse experiences and connect to learning goals.

Culminating Research Unit in every grade

Each grade in Amplify CKLA culminates in a research unit where students complete a writing project using authentic trade book texts based on the topics students have covered throughout the unit.

Six children’s book covers featuring stories about exploration, science, and historical figures.
A collection of six children’s book covers, including Charlotte’s Web, Stella Díaz Has Something to Say, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The Season of Styx Malone, and The Phantom Tollbooth.

Novel Studies in Grades 3–5

Unit 7 of Grades 3–5 will feature a district-level choice between classic and contemporary Novel Studies:

  • Grade 3: Charlotte’s Web or Stella Díaz Has Something to Say
  • Grade 4: From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
    or The Season of Styx Malone
  • Grade 5: The Phantom Tollbooth or The Science of
    Breakable Things