Teach your students to think critically about everything they read.
Amplify’s middle school literacy programs were designed to prepare students in grades 6–8 for high school and beyond by immersing them in complex texts and teaching them to think for themselves about everything they read. Learn more about Amplify ELA (our core English language arts curriculum) and Boost Close Reading (our supplemental reading program).
Amplify ELA
Amplify ELA is a blended English language arts curriculum designed for grades 6–8. With Amplify ELA, students learn to tackle any complex text and make observations, grapple with interesting ideas, and build connections.
Boost Close Reading
Boost Close Reading is an immersive supplemental reading program that engages students with an interactive graphic novel. Through high-interest storytelling and guided instruction, students build their close reading skills.
Explore more programs based on the Science of Reading.
Our early literacy suite programs based on the Science of Reading are designed to support and complement each other. Learn more about integrated programs below.
Reading scores show slow—but steady— improvement in early grades.
The most recent beginning-of-year data show overall progress in reading readiness for K–2 students. Insights show:
- More young readers are on track and fewer are far behind than at any time since the pandemic.
- K–2 students who are far behind at the beginning of the school year, but on track by the end of the year, are likely to stay on track through third grade.
- Overall, fewer than half of K–2 students are on track to learn to read, a troubling national trend.
Explore Amplify’s beginning-of-year research brief.
Research briefs for the 2024–2025 school year
October 2024
BOY: Summer instructional loss highlights the importance of quality core instruction for the youngest grades.
February 2025
MOY: Early literacy gains offer hope for COVID recovery, though broader literacy challenges persist nationwide.
July 2025
EOY: Reading scores rise overall; gender disparities present a complex picture.
October 2025
BOY: More students start the school year on track for learning to read, though momentum is slow.
Read more research and case studies.
Amplify’s high-quality programs benefit millions of students every day using methods that are evidence-based, ESSA-aligned, and showing efficacy in a variety of contexts. Read more research and case studies and see more briefs on early literacy.
Welcome, Oakland Steering Committee!
Thank you for considering Caminos Lectoescritura—our new authentic Spanish skills program for grades K–2.
Within this site, you’ll find:
- Large-grain resources: Program overview, research basis, and scope and sequence
- Medium-grain resources: Program components and digital supports.
- Small-grain resources: Digital navigation support and demo account access.
Large-grain resources
Amplify Caminos is an authentic elementary Spanish language arts program, grounded in the Science of Reading and built from the ground up for the Spanish language.
The Lectoescritura strand of Amplify Caminos provides explicit, systematic foundational skills instruction that was distinctly developed with the Spanish language in mind.
Medium-grain resources
Amplify Caminos is not a direct translation of Amplify CKLA—the English language arts counterpart to Caminos.
Instead, it features an instructional pathway, scope and sequence, and set of components that address the unique ways in which students learn the Spanish language—whether in the classroom or learning from home.
Small-grain resources
In addition to reviewing the printed resources shipped to the district, we’ve created a digital demo site for you to explore grade-level materials. Simply follow the steps below to get started.
Step 1: Watch this video >
This video provides a walkthrough of how to navigate our Teacher Resource site.
Demo access
Step 2: Explore the site
- Click the orange button below to access the site.
- Enter this username: t1.k5cklacaminos@demo.tryamplify.net
- Enter this password: Amplify1-k5cklacaminos
- When prompted, select your desired grade level.
- Next, click the Daily Instruction link in the top right navigation bar.
- Then, click the Español button above the navigation menu on the left side of the page.
- Last, click on any Lectoescritura unit tile to explore the Teacher Guide, Student Activity Book, and Digital Materials for that unit.
Contact us
Support is always within reach. Our team is dedicated to supporting Oakland USD and can be reached at any time by emailing or calling us directly.
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Science of Reading resources hub
The Science of Reading is complex, so your understanding of it should be, too. That’s why our resource pages break it all down for you, from word recognition and comprehension to dyslexia and Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports. Equip yourself with the knowledge you need to make the greatest difference to your students!
Select a resource:
Amplify’s Science of Reading overview
Learn the ins and outs of the Science of Reading—what it means, and why its principles matter.
Science of Reading: The Podcast
Listen to the latest insights from researchers and practitioners in early reading.
Science of Reading programs
Achieve next-level literacy growth with a cohesive Science of Reading suite.
Science of Reading success stories
We’ve helped thousands of Science of Reading champions make the shift, and they’re eager to share the secrets of their long-term success with fellow educators like you.
Science of Reading webinars
Get on-demand professional development to build and refine your toolkit of Science of Reading resources and instructional practices.
Science of Reading Star Awards
Nominate a literacy changemaker for our prestigious Science of Reading Star Awards!
Science of Reading data and MTSS
Fortify your Science of Reading implementation using essential data and a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS).
Change management
Educational change doesn’t happen overnight, or by itself. We’ll walk you through the process to help you make literacy success a lasting reality in your classroom.
Knowledge building
Learn the ins and outs of the Science of Reading—what it means, and why its principles matter.
Dyslexia and the Science of Reading
Discover how assessment and instruction grounded in the Science of Reading helps identify children at risk of developing dyslexia at the earliest possible moments, creating the widest opportunity for intervention.
Science of Reading professional development course
Learn everything you need to know about Science of Reading instruction with Amplify’s Chief Academic Officer and host of Science of Reading: The Podcast Susan Lambert.
Supporting multilingual & English language learners
Multilingual/English learners (ML/ELs) bring unique strengths to classrooms, enriching the learning experiences for all.
At Amplify, we empower educators with tools that honor the strengths and capabilities of ML/ELs. Our curriculum and assessments meet students where they are and help them develop their skills, propelling them on their learning journeys.
Amplify supports ML/ELs across all subjects, from English language arts to math and science. For students who speak Spanish, we also provide a comprehensive biliteracy suite.
Amplify CKLA core literacy curriculum for grades K–5
Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) is a K–5 core curriculum built on the science of how students learn to read and write. Amplify CKLA supports ML/ELs in a variety of ways.
Scaffolding at five levels of proficiency
In addition to core instruction, Amplify CKLA provides lesson supports for Entering/Emerging, Transitioning/ Expanding, and Bridging levels.
Lesson differentiation
Lessons include Support and Challenge suggestions that provide assistance or opportunities for more advanced work toward the goal of the lesson. These resources are suitable for all learners, including ML/ELs.
Phonological awareness and phonics supports
The digital Sound Library easily facilitates sound development through videos showing mouth movements and songs that help students practice articulating new sounds with catchy lyrics.
Frequent oral language development opportunities
Amplify CKLA boosts language development with complex read-alouds, interactive discussion, writing activities, and explicit teaching of academic and domain vocabulary.
Amplify CKLA pairs with Amplify Caminos, its companion K–5 Spanish literacy program that supports biliteracy instruction.
Language Studio, an English Language Development companion program for Amplify CKLA
Language Studio, Amplify CKLA’s dedicated K–5 English language development companion program, offers daily 30-minute lessons to help ML/ELs practice reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Aligned to the World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) framework, Language Studio previews and reinforces language and content from core instruction, so that ML/ELs of all proficiency levels are able to access grade-level content as they develop academic English.
Interactive language development
Language Studio provides opportunities for classroom discussions, oral presentations, and writing tasks, promoting comprehension and learning by connecting with students’ cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
Explicit vocabulary instruction
Interactive vocabulary and academic language support is provided before each lesson to deepen students’ understanding of text.
Multimodal comprehension support
Students can preview content, interact with physical materials, compare text types, receive explicit grammar instruction, and have access to extensive vocabulary exercises.
Skill proficiency monitoring
Language Studio facilitates evaluation with an understanding of what students should produce at each level.
mCLASS DIBELS 8th Edition literacy assessment for grades K–6
mCLASS® is an all-in-one system for Science of Reading-based universal screening, dyslexia screening, and progress monitoring for grades K–6. Powered by DIBELS 8th Edition, mCLASS provides valuable data on your ML/ELs’ literacy in English, helping you build a robust system of tiered supports. With a single tool, you can access the data and instructional support you need for each student’s literacy development, from phonics to comprehension, catering to all readers, from beginner to advanced.
Screening and reporting
mCLASS’s one-minute measures and dyslexia screening identify risk as early as possible, providing you with the right data to make informed decisions.
Language considerations
mCLASS provides specific language guidance, offers ML/EL instructional strategies, and considers each student’s unique language background, never penalizing for language variety, accent, or articulation, and extending this understanding into small-group practices.
Performance and reporting transparency
Understand student performance through direct observation and detailed reports which offer growth insights, including district-wide student achievement data that can be filtered by EL status, Home Language, or English Proficiency status.
mCLASS pairs with mCLASS Lectura, an authentic Spanish literacy assessment for K–6 that measures key foundational skills and supports Spanish-speaking bilingual students.
mCLASS Intervention for grades K–6
mCLASS Intervention is our K–6 reading intervention program, designed to support you in providing effective Tier 2 and 3 instruction and getting readers on track. mCLASS Intervention does the heavy lifting of data analysis and lesson planning for you. This lets you focus on what you do best: teaching the skills each student needs to become a confident reader.
Effective lessons with built-in support
Lessons are equipped with best practices and guidance targeting language and literacy development for ML/ELs. The program also includes materials and resources that make content accessible to Spanish-speaking students.
Structured small groups
Once groups are formed, mCLASS Intervention determines the ideal focus for each group and automatically prepares two weeks of targeted lessons.
Keeps you updated on student progress
Track student growth with reliable progress-monitoring tools and reporting that provides a clear view of each student’s progress.
Boost Reading personalized reading program for grades K–5
A key component of Amplify’s early literacy suite, Boost Reading is a personalized learning program for K–5 that offers comprehensive targeted practice, built-in benchmark assessments, and powerful reporting. Boost Reading provides practice in the full progression of key phonics and comprehension skills critical to literacy development.
Boost Reading works. Results of a year-long study show that students in grades K–5—including ML/ELs—who used Boost Reading for 30 minutes a week significantly outperformed their peers.
Systematic instruction in foundational skills and comprehension
Reinforce core instruction with explicit practice in phonics and phonological awareness. Boost Reading is the only program that focuses on comprehension processes—what readers do while reading that allows them to make sense of text—which is especially beneficial for ML/EL students.
Mouth formation modeling for articulation support
Boost Reading includes specific scaffolds and supports—such as a modeling of mouth formations for articulation—that are proven to be beneficial for ML/ELs.
Vocabulary practice
Targeted morphology practice for independent vocabulary building and explicit instruction with Tier 2 vocabulary words are proven to be supportive for ML/ELs.
Boost Reading pairs with Boost Lectura, a Spanish literacy program for K–2 that provides students with personalized practice to develop Spanish literacy skills.
Amplify ELA core literacy curriculum for grades 6–8
With Amplify ELA, students learn to tackle any complex text and make observations, grapple with interesting ideas, and find relevance for themselves. Amplify ELA is a grade 6–8 English language arts program designed to bridge language gaps and enhance learning for ML/ELs. With integrated supports in every lesson, Amplify ELA empowers educators to deliver grade-level content while maintaining rigorous standards, thus reducing barriers to language acquisition and boosting student success.
Built-in scaffolds
Background documents (in English and Spanish) establish context and support comprehension before students begin to read. Features such as audio assessments, read-aloud, and Reveal words ensure that all students have the opportunity to engage with and understand grade-level materials.
Differentiated writing prompts
Simplified language, sentence starters, word banks, and visual cues offer the necessary levels of support to help students meet their writing goals.
Multi-language glossaries
Available in 11 languages—English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, and Vietnamese—these glossaries support vocabulary development and comprehension.
Amplify Desmos Math core curriculum for grades K–12
Amplify Desmos Math is a new, curiosity-driven K–12 program that builds students’ lifelong math proficiency. Every lesson in Amplify Desmos Math includes opportunities for all students to develop mathematical language as they experience the content, while providing intentional support for ML/ELs. We purposefully progress language development from lesson to lesson and across units by supporting students in making their arguments and explanations stronger, clearer, and more precise.
Multilingual/English learner support
Supports for ML/ELs are called out at intentional points within each lesson. These specific, targeted suggestions support ML/ELs with modifications that increase access to a task, or through development of contextual or mathematical language (both of which can be supportive of all learners). ML/EL supports may also be attached to Math Language Routines.
Math Language Routines (MLRs)
Math Language Routines are used within lessons to highlight student-developed language and ideas, cultivate conversation, support mathematical sense-making, and promote metacognition. Tips for facilitating MLRs are included when they would be helpful within lessons.
Language goals and vocabulary
Language goals attend to the mathematics students are learning, and are written through the lens of one (or more) of four language modalities: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Units and lessons start by surfacing students’ language for new concepts, then building connections between their language and the new vocabulary for that unit. This honors the language assets that students bring into their learning.
Amplify Science core curriculum for grades
K–8
Amplify Science is a curiosity-driven science curriculum that empowers students to Do, Talk, Read, Write, and Visualize like scientists. Through phenomena-based, literacy-rich, and interactive learning experiences, it develops students into critical thinkers who will gain the skills they need to solve real problems in their communities and the world. For students who need additional support, Amplify Science provides specialized instructional approaches, activities, and resources that take into account English learners’ level of language proficiency.
Instructional design built on five key principles
Amplify Science leverages background knowledge, capitalizes on student knowledge of language, provides explicit instruction about the language of science, gives students opportunities with scaffolded practice, and enables students to access science content and express science knowledge through a multimodal approach.
Do, Talk, Read, Write, Visualize instructional model
Our multimodal instructional approach caters to diverse learning needs and promotes active engagement for all learners.
Honoring multilingualism
Amplify Science honors multilingualism as students are invited to share in their native language at strategic points in instruction. Teacher-led instruction on cognates and a multilingual glossary in 10 languages offer additional support.
Spanish instructional materials
Carefully translated materials use academic Spanish, with attention to consistency and grade-level appropriate language, to support language development.
A biliteracy suite grounded in the Science of Reading
Discover a suite of Spanish literacy curriculum and assessment programs designed to build confident readers with Amplify Caminos, mCLASS Lectura, and Boost Lectura. Amplify’s biliteracy suite includes assessment, core instruction, and personalized learning built on the Science of Reading.
Explore more programs in Amplify’s literacy and biliteracy suites.
All of the programs in our literacy suite and our biliteracy suite are designed to support and complement each other. Learn more about our related programs:
Join our User Research Community!
Help shape Amplify products.
Educators and students are at the center of what we do. That’s why we test our products with real users, visit classrooms across the country, and gather ideas and feedback from educators like you! This is how we ensure that we’re developing new products that meet your needs, as well as continuously improving our existing products to better support your classrooms.
That’s where our User Research Community comes in. This is a group of valued educators we look to for their expertise! They regularly participate in research and feedback opportunities and share their insights with our Product teams.
We hope you’ll consider joining Amplify’s User Research Community. When we have a study that’s a good fit for you, our team will reach out with details and next steps.
Why participate in user research?
Make an impact
Help influence and improve Amplify products by sharing your feedback and ideas
Get sneak peeks
Learn about new products and features that Amplify teams are working on
Connect with us
Share your thoughts and feedback directly with Amplify product development teams
Enjoy thank-you gifts
Receive incentives as a thank you for your time
What to expect
When you sign up to join the Amplify User Research Community, we’ll ask you some questions that will help us match you with research studies. When an opportunity sounds like a good fit, we’ll send you an email and share the details up front, such as study topic, research format, time commitment, and compensation. Then, you can decide if you’d like to participate.
Frequently asked questions
We’re looking for all types of educators to join our User Research Community: new Amplify users, power users, and everyone in between. We’re also looking for people who don’t use our products. If you work in a school setting or support schools, we want to hear from you. Here are some of the people we’d love to connect with:
- Classroom teachers (PreK–12)
- Biliteracy teachers
- Special education teachers
- Interventionists
- Coaches
- Curriculum directors
- School administrators
- District administrations
- Parents and caregivers
We have a separate research program for K–12 students. Learn more about our Playtesting program below.
Amplify runs a variety of research studies, and we’ll include the details of the study in our email. When you participate in one of our studies, you might be invited to:
- Talk to a researcher in a video call: Share your experiences with a specific product.
- Share your screen: Show us how you use Amplify’s products, try out a prototype, or test new features.
- Complete a survey: Answer questions about your current practices and/or preferences.
- Host a school visit: Have a few Amplify employees visit your classroom to observe our programs in action.
- Participate in a long-form study: These studies may involve a small commitment for several days or over a few weeks. You may be asked to review new materials or designs or to try something out in your classroom. Our researchers may ask you to respond to questions or take notes based on your experience using a product.
The information you provide will only be used to match you with suitable research studies and won’t be shared or sold to external parties. All data is stored on a secure server. See our Privacy Policy for more detail.
Amplify’s goal is to design welcoming product experiences. To do this well, it’s important for us to get feedback from everyone. We collect demographic information to help ensure that study participants represent the educators, students, and school environments we serve. All questions are optional and your information is kept confidential in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
You can opt out at any time by clicking unsubscribe in any of our research emails.
We typically offer e-gift cards as a way of saying thank you to those who participate in our research studies. We’ll include the exact details of the thank-you gift in the email invitation for the session. If your session is eligible for a thank-you gift card, you should receive it within five business days after completing your session. Please note that not all study participants will receive a thank-you gift.
Amplify Playtesting Program
A fun and empowering experience for kids
Students in our Playtesting Program provide feedback on new Amplify games and features as they’re being developed. Our researchers work one-on-one with students for 30 minutes at a time, inviting them to interact with new games and designs and gathering their feedback. We then integrate that feedback directly into our product development. It’s a chance for students to share their thoughts and ideas and have a real impact on the programs we’re building.
Who can participate?
Any students in kindergarten through grade 12 this school year can be part of our playtesting program, with parental permission.
What are the perks?
Aside from a fun time and a sneak peek at what’s in development, all students receive a $20 Amazon gift card for participating in a playtesting session.
When, where, and how do kids participate?
When playtesting needs arise, our User Research team will reach out to parents/caregivers to schedule a Google Meet session at a time that’s convenient for you and your child.
How can I sign my child up?
To enroll your student, please fill out this consent form. Your child will then be added to our playtesting program database. When a playtesting opportunity arises that we think would be a good fit, we’ll reach out!
Meet our Amplify Education Ambassadors.
We’re proud to showcase our amazing team of Amplify Education Ambassadors! These innovative educators are the heart of Amplify, representing a wide range of backgrounds and expertise. They are teachers and leaders who understand the impact of using our programs and care about supporting other educators and their students.
Learn more about each of these innovative educators and the essential work they do.
Amplify Education Ambassador class of 2025–26
Invest in high-quality professional development
Amplify’s professional development provides a variety of learning experiences over multiple years to incrementally develop and apply the knowledge and skills needed for effective and self-sustaining implementation.
Gain insights into effective instructional techniques, and develop a deeper understanding of your Amplify program(s) by investing in professional development.
The foundation for long-lasting and sustainable change
Partner with members of our professional learning team to plan long-lasting and sustainable change for your school or district. Change is more likely to stick and get results with deliberate planning. We can support your through this journey to drive your professional improvement, enrich your instructional practice, and increase student impact.
Professional learning journey
Every school and district is unique. That’s why we offer flexible delivery options to best meet your specific needs and objectives.
Our professional development programs come in packages or individual sessions, available both on-site and virtually, to help you get the most out of your Amplify program(s).
You can also customize your learning experience by adding extra sessions, such as Science of Reading, supporting multiliterate learners, and a problem-based approach to math, to build on your base package.
Empower teachers to continuously improve
Professional development helps teachers stay motivated and inspired to grow professionally. Demonstrate your commitment to your staff by empowering them with professional development packages that include on-site or virtual Launch, Strengthen, or Coach sessions, all of which will orient you and your team to the full features of Amplify programs.
You can also personalize your learning experience by adding enhancement sessions to base packages.
Launch
On-site and virtual Launch sessions introduce Amplify programs and support strong implementation. Self-paced, online courses are also available for select Amplify programs and include an on-demand subscription for 12-months.
After learning about the program’s foundational principles and key features, you’ll practice administering it within a collaborative environment.
Strengthen
On-site and virtual Strengthen sessions deepen understanding of the program. Session offerings are targeted and meant to take your practice—and your students’ learning—to the next level.
Offered as part of core packages, as well as enhancements, Strengthen sessions are intended to effectively address your students’ needs. Examples include:
- A focus on data analysis.
- Examining student writing.
- Targeted intervention instruction.
Coach
On-site and virtual Coach sessions are tailored to elevate instructional practices and meet the unique needs of teachers and/or leaders.
Partner with an Amplify coach who will support you in planning customized sessions leveraging our menu of supports, which can include:
- Lesson modeling by an Amplify facilitator.
- Classroom observations and debriefs.
- Grade-level planning.
Commit to sustainable change for long-term impact
Learning may ebb and flow between phases depending on your teachers’ and leaders’ needs, experiences, and professional goals. Amplify professional development aims to continually grow, develop, and refine instructional practices to support student learning and achievement.
Frequently asked questions
We value your partnership and aim to provide you with the highest quality learning experiences. Check out our frequently asked PD questions below, along with responses.
Additional learning
Once you become an Amplify customer, you’ll have access to many opportunities to continue learning how to get the most out of your Amplify program(s).
To get a sense of our support, check out some of our free resources:
- Featured blog posts on the Amplify blog
- Webinars or other online events
- Video content on Youtube
Biliteracy supports
Facilitated in both English and Spanish, specialized biliteracy sessions should be scheduled for teachers using both curricula and/or assessments. Sessions are available to support the use of both Amplify CKLA and Amplify Caminos core programs or mCLASSⓇ DIBELSⓇ 8th Edition and Lectura assessment programs. Substitute a biliteracy session for the 6-hour initial training in your package, or add these sessions on to your package for your biliteracy teachers.
Speak to our team to learn more!
Order and payment support
If you’re ready to submit your price quote, purchase order, or payment, visit our Ordering Support site for more information.
Community of collaboration
Connect with fellow Science of Reading or science advocates in one of our public Facebook groups. Join a community or tune into one of our podcasts today:
- Science of Reading: The Community and The Podcast
- Science Connections: The Community and The Podcast
- Beyond My Years podcast: Listen to chronicles from the classroom.
Amplify customers can join our exclusive, program-specific Facebook communities to ask pedagogical questions, share Amplify teaching hacks, and more!
Get in touch with a PD expert
We’re here to provide answers and guidance as you explore your PD journey. Fill out the form to connect with us and discover how Amplify PD can enhance your educational journey.
Our experts
We are educators supporting educators. Every member of Amplify’s national team of highly experienced and qualified facilitators is a former educator with years of hands-on classroom and/or administrative experience. Our facilitators are passionate about supporting educators in the implementation of their Amplify programs and creating transformational change for all students.
Math resources that tap into your students’ curiosity
As a teacher, you create a collaborative math community with students at its center.
We’re here to help.
Amplify Desmos Math
Complete core program (Grades K–12)
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A new, curiosity-driven K–12 program that builds lifelong math proficiency.
Amplify Desmos Math provides:
- The ability to transform every classroom into an engaged math community that invites, values, and develops student thinking.
- Supports and guidance for teachers to systematically build from students’ prior knowledge to grade-level learning.
- Actionable, asset-based data that informs instruction and personalizes learning, building on what students already know.
Amplify Classroom
Free teaching and learning platform (Grades K–12)
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Amplify Classroom is an interactive teaching and learning platform with hundreds of free K–12 lessons, virtual manipulatives, and teaching tools. With a free teacher account, you can access:
- Interactive lessons and activities that strengthen classroom learning while building math fact-fluency
- Polypad virtual manipulatives that allow you to model mathematical concepts in a creative way.
- A Teacher Dashboard with real-time visuals that provide visibility into student thinking.
- A lesson-building tool where you can customize or create your own lessons.
mCLASS® Math
Screening and progress monitoring (Grades K–8)
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Expect more from your assessments with mCLASS® Math.
The brand-new benchmarking and progress-monitoring assessment system represents the next generation in math assessment, providing educators not only with reliable measures of student achievement, but also with an asset-based approach that analyzes student responses to reveal underlying mathematical thinking.
Boost Math™
Personalized learning and intervention (Grades K–8)
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Boost Math™ is a brand new intervention program that builds students’ number sense and confidence in grade-level math. This digital-first experience maximizes student potential by building on students’ existing understanding through targeted instruction, small group intervention resources, and personalized practice, reinforcing core concepts and supporting fact-fluency practice.
Explore more programs
Our programs are designed to support and complement one another. Learn more about our related programs.
A Spanish and English literacy curriculum grounded in the Science of Reading
Discover a suite of Spanish literacy curriculum and assessment programs designed to build confident readers with mCLASS® Lectura, Amplify Caminos, and Boost Lectura. Amplify’s biliteracy suite includes assessment, core instruction, and personalized learning built on the Science of Reading.
mCLASS Lectura assessment
mCLASS Lectura is a Science of Reading-based universal and dyslexia screener for K–6 that helps educators accelerate students’ literacy in Spanish. When combined with mCLASS DIBELS® 8th Edition, it’s the only assessment offering a dual language instructional report that enables teachers to identify skills students can transfer across languages.
Amplify Caminos core curriculum
When combined with Amplify Caminos, mCLASS Lectura helps you provide targeted whole-class instruction specific to your class’s or students’ risk levels and areas of growth for Spanish literacy.
Boost Lectura personalized learning
mCLASS Lectura drives placement into Boost Lectura, our personalized learning program, placing students on a skill map that meets them at their instructional level.
Amplify Caminos
core curriculum
Amplify Caminos is a K–5 Spanish language arts curriculum that helps teachers inspire students to become confident readers, writers, and thinkers in Spanish. Grounded in the Science of Reading and following biliteracy principles, the program combines rich content knowledge with systematic foundational skills instruction.
Amplify Caminos provides strong core instruction in the same critical literacy skills measured in mCLASS Lectura, helping align your assessment and core instruction.
Boost Lectura personalized learning
Amplify Caminos and Boost Lectura are grounded in the same evidence-based Spanish literacy skills progression, reinforcing skill development through personalized practice.
Boost Lectura personalized learning
Boost Lectura is a K–2 personalized Spanish literacy program with proven efficacy that focuses on key accelerants of critical literacy skills. Boost Lectura offers a highly adaptive, student-led approach to personalized learning that’s instructive and engaging. Boost Lectura also fits in any classroom model, allowing for easy integration without disrupting routines.
Boost Lectura uses mCLASS Lectura’s data for student placement, providing practice with the skills students need the most.
Amplify Caminos core curriculum
Boost Lectura expands on the learning experience from Amplify Caminos, delivering personalized practice to support foundational skill development.
Built on principles that honor biliteracy
Biliteracy opens the door to rewarding learning opportunities for students. Amplify is committed to biliteracy development and empowering educators in fostering great teaching and learning experiences. Access our biliteracy and Science of Reading principles, the foundation of our biliteracy suite, for insights into how bilingual literacy develops.
Explore more programs based on the Science of Reading.
Our English early literacy suite programs are also designed to support and complement each other. Learn more about integrated programs below.
Our purpose
Dear teachers,
You do a job that is nearly impossible and utterly essential.
We are in your corner—extending your reach, saving you time, and enhancing your understanding of each student.
Thank you for working with us to craft rigorous and riveting learning experiences for your classroom. We share your goal of inspiring all students to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves.
Sincerely,
Amplify
Our commitment
Our goal is to make education, and thereby the world, more fair and accessible.
We create education products that celebrate difference in life and thought as well as ideals we hold in common.
We help teachers craft rigorous learning experiences that reflect the histories, cultures, and perspectives their students bring to the classroom.
We also help teachers support their students in constructing, questioning, expanding, and strengthening knowledge of where they come from and who they are becoming.
To do this, we hire and develop people with the broadest range of talents, life stories, and experiences, and together we build a cohesive team.
Leading the way in high-quality, next-generation curriculum and assessments
Amplify collaborates with educators to create learning experiences that are rigorous and riveting for all students. Amplify creates K–12 core and supplemental curriculum, assessment, and intervention programs for today’s students.
Our impact
A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify delivers next-generation curriculum and assessment on an intuitive, integrated platform that includes thousands of free lessons. Today, Amplify serves 18 million students and teachers worldwide. Read about our purpose and commitment.
Leadership
Amplify’s executive team includes proven leaders from the fields of education, technology, business, and media.
Our team
We are passionate about the work we do at Amplify. If you want to help make schools great places to teach and exciting places to learn, please get in touch.
A purpose-driven culture
At Amplify, we are dedicated to ensuring that all students and teachers have access to the highest quality instructional materials. This purpose informs everything we do every day. To this end, we hire and develop people with the broadest range of talents, life stories, and experiences, and together we build a cohesive, purpose-driven team.
Our programs
Our captivating core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science support teachers in engaging all their students in rigorous learning and inspiring them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers provide the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math.
Careers
We’re looking for innovators and optimists to join us in developing next-generation curriculum and assessment programs for K–12 schools.
Who we are
Remote first. Brooklyn based. In person sometimes. Amplify is powered by a collaborative team of education, technology, and creative professionals who develop next-generation programs that inspire teachers and students to do their best work. Apply for one of our open positions.
People and culture
Amplify is a purpose-driven community where cross-functional teams work together to create high-quality programs.
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With headquarters in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood, we’re at the center of New York’s thriving tech and creative community.
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We take an agile approach that enables us to adapt our programs to the needs of teachers and students. Collaboration helps us stay innovative.
Meet the team.
Our common purpose drives us to work across disciplines to develop next-generation solutions for the classroom. Meet some of our team members.
Leadership
Amplify’s leadership includes executives and board members from the fields of education, technology, design, business, and media.
Hiring practices
We hire and develop people with the broadest range of talents, life stories, and experiences, and together we build a cohesive team. We follow fair hiring practices and create an environment where team members feel valued, empowered, and heard.
Amplify workplace awards
What we offer
Amplify employees report feeling engaged and eager to come to work every day. They’re motivated by our mission of improving the lives of teachers and students. And learning isn’t just for the students we serve—we are dedicated to providing our employees opportunities for ongoing growth. Explore our benefits in detail.
Full benefits
Our health insurance options include health, dental, and vision coverage for spouses, domestic partners, and children—effective on your date of hire. We make a generous contribution to all employee HSA plans, which can be used to cover eligible health expenses. We offer unlimited paid time off, a 401(k) plan with an employer match, long- and short-term disability, and employer-sponsored employee life insurance. We offer paid parental leave, backup childcare and backup eldercare. On top of all that, we also provide our full-time employees with a robust voluntary benefits program that includes coverage options for everyone in the family, including pets.
Opportunities for inspiration
Amplify believes in the importance of supporting charitable nonprofits in the communities where we live and work. We encourage employees to support organizations that promote the welfare of children and families in the areas of education, health, and social services. One way for employees to give back is through our Volunteer Time Off program, which allows employees to take 16 hours each year to contribute to an eligible charitable or nonprofit organization.
Tuition reimbursement
Full-time employees who are enrolled in an accredited college or university course related to their areas of work are eligible to receive tuition reimbursement.
An authentic Spanish assessment built specifically for bilingual students learning to read
Part of the mCLASS® Español suite, mCLASS Lectura is a universal screener for K–6 built on modern Spanish literacy research. It helps educators accelerate reading growth for Spanish-speaking students by delivering complete parity between English and Spanish reading assessments. Para la versión en español, haga clic aquí.
Promoting fairness for Spanish-speaking students in early literacy
Spanish-speaking students have been underserved and misclassified for decades. By combining mCLASS Lectura and mCLASS® DIBELS® 8th Edition, you’ll be able to understand where your Spanish-speaking students are in their English and Spanish literacy paths.
Based on the science behind how students learn to read in English and Spanish, the mCLASS system allows teachers to connect with their Spanish-speaking students face-to-face, one-on-one, and in the language most comfortable to them. Teachers are able to pinpoint where their Spanish-speaking or emergent bilingual students really are in their literacy skill development and what instruction to prioritize.
Built by leading biliteracy experts
The mCLASS® Lectura universal screener was co-developed with the Center on Teaching and Learning at the University of Oregon. The assessment was validated by Amplify in partnership with Dr. Lillian Durán of the University of Oregon.
The development of mCLASS Lectura also involved a team of nationally recognized experts representing a range of regions (Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean), along with focus groups featuring classroom teachers, special education teachers, specialists, and administrators.
Our approach
Aligned to the Science of Reading, mCLASS Lectura allows teachers to connect with their students through observational assessment and in the language most comfortable to them. We built mCLASS Lectura so that when used in tandem with mCLASS DIBELS 8th Edition, educators can achieve complete parity between English and Spanish literacy skills.
Complete parity between English and Spanish
mCLASS Lectura is an authentic Spanish assessment that delivers complete parity when combined with mCLASS DIBELS 8th Edition, including parallel reporting across English and Spanish assessments and unique dual-language reporting.
Listen to your students read in both languages, one-on-one
mCLASS Lectura provides teacher-administered assessments in Spanish that deliver accurate and reliable measurements of each student’s literacy progress.
Built from the latest research in Spanish literacy development
mCLASS Lectura is a high-quality assessment that accounts for the major differences between English and Spanish, not simply a direct translation or transadaptation between the two languages.
Transfer skills in one language to the other
By providing teachers with insights into the skill areas in which their students are proficient, in their native language, the program helps Spanish-speakers build on their strengths and make connections to their second language. Educators also receive guidance on the cross-linguistic transfer of critical skills in both languages.
What’s included
mCLASS Lectura includes one-minute measures validated for universal and dyslexia screening, and provides dual language reports for teachers and administrators.
Comprehensive Spanish literacy measures in mCLASS Lectura
mCLASS Lectura is validated to assess for all key foundational skills for K–6, including:
- Letter Naming
- Phonological Awareness
- Alphabetic Principle
- Fluency
- Comprehension
Reports in English and Spanish
mCLASS Lectura analyzes Spanish literacy and English literacy development side by side, enabling you to see where kids are in both languages.
Instructional activities to build Spanish literacy skills
With mCLASS Lectura, educators get hundreds of step-by-step instructional activities for small groups or individual students and receive effective activities to target the Spanish literacy skills with which students need the most support.
Comprehensive reporting
mCLASS Lectura provides reporting for everyone at all levels, from classroom teachers and literacy specialists to principals and district leaders, as well as parents and guardians at home.
Detailed assessment data
mCLASS Lectura provides transcripts of every assessment and identifies error patterns to help educators make instructional decisions for students on the skills they need to work on the most. The program also includes letters with student assessment results and analysis to send home or to use as a basis for discussion at conferences.
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We’re using critical components of biliteracy learning to support the literacy development of all students.
Amplify Tutoring
High-impact solutions
Built on the Science of Reading, Amplify Tutoring engages students and achieves real results. We partner with districts to empower children to become confident, proficient readers.
What is Amplify Tutoring?
We partner with you to customize high-impact, research-based solutions to support your students and extend the reach of your teachers.
With built-in progress monitoring and reporting, Amplify Tutoring uses data to meet students where they are and equip educators with insights they need. Instruction is personalized and engaging, delivered by a consistent adult, and grounded in a motivating relationship. Comprehensive and easy to use, our materials enable a range of staff—certified educators, paraprofessionals, community members, or college students—to deliver effective, tailored instruction.
Amplify Tutoring uses high-quality, ESSA-rated materials rooted in the Science of Reading and trusted data from the mCLASS® DIBELS® assessment. Our lessons include explicit and systematic instruction, build knowledge, and teach the essential word recognition and comprehension skills readers need to achieve proficiency.
Our program is based on the research behind effective high-impact literacy tutoring. It can be implemented in person or virtually across entire districts, schools, or grade levels and is:
- Customizable to meet schools’ unique needs and complement their Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS).
- Supportive of any staffing models. We can support your staff with program management and coaching and support, provide tutoring staff for you, or co-design a blended model to meet your distinct needs.
- Year-long or semester-long. Programs are flexible and scheduled so as not to interfere with core instruction or special classes.
Students meet frequently and consistently for 30-minute sessions at least three times per week with a dedicated, caring tutor. Our research-based, data-driven tutoring materials are designed to make learning interactive and fun, helping students quickly advance their reading skills alongside their peers. Sessions can be led by your staff, by partnering with Amplify’s tutors, or by blending both models.
With cutting-edge technology and a team of passionate specialists, we partner with schools and districts to easily scale and enhance their high-impact tutoring and MTSS efforts. Our services ensure a smooth implementation and include program management, scheduling, and data reporting supports. We offer ongoing professional development and coaching for all stakeholders, from educators to caregivers. We can also provide trained, skilled tutors who deliver engaging lessons and build strong, meaningful connections with students.
More than a program: a true partner
Hear directly from district leaders who have experienced the Amplify Tutoring difference. In these candid conversations, they share how we partner to deliver solutions for schools and gains for students.
Our impact
Amplify Tutoring accelerates student achievement in reading and works for students who need it most. Results show that students in Amplify Tutoring are more likely to achieve outsized gains in reading compared to similarly at-risk peers in the same schools who are not enrolled in the program.
Amplify Tutoring has been awarded the National Student Support Accelerator (NSSA) Tutoring Program Design Badge by Stanford University!
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Engaging, data-driven lessons
Amplify Tutoring uses mCLASS Intervention, a research-backed, ESSA-rated program that empowers tutors of all experience levels to customize instruction on a frequent basis, streamlining time-consuming data analysis and lesson planning.
mCLASS Intervention creates engaging, data-driven lessons based on mCLASS DIBELS™ 8th Edition assessment results, connecting what students learn in tutoring to their daily classroom instruction. As progress-monitoring results improve, mCLASS Intervention updates students’ skill profiles and activities to accelerate learning at a faster rate.
Easy-to-read data
With easy-to-read data at your fingertips, everyone in a child’s literacy journey, from teachers and tutors to school leaders and caregivers at home, can monitor student growth.
- Teachers can see real-time growth data and use it to inform their own lesson planning.
- Teachers have visibility into all tutors’ lessons through mCLASS Intervention.
- School and district administrators receive regular tutoring attendance and progress-monitoring reports.
- Caregivers receive Home Connect letters and activities to help their child practice foundational skills at home.
Consultation and collaboration
Amplify Tutoring tailors our support for educators, schools, districts, caregivers, and state-level leaders. Whether co-designing high-impact tutoring programs with hundreds of leadership teams, providing program management and coaching for district- or community-staffed implementations, or directly tutoring students, we provide support to help schools realize the promise of high-impact tutoring.
By fostering strong partnerships at every level, Amplify Tutoring ensures that the entire school community is engaged, supported, and positioned to help students succeed.
Our services can include:
Program design consultation: Amplify Tutoring offers expert program design consultation services to help schools and districts create effective and scalable high-impact tutoring programs. We collaborate to develop customized solutions that address student needs and drive measurable academic success.
Tailored onboarding: We provide customized training sessions for school, district, and state leaders, ensuring Amplify Tutoring is integrated smoothly into existing systems.
Ongoing professional development and coaching: We offer continuous training, coaching support, and office hours with pedagogical experts to ensure the program’s success and adaptability.
Caregiver engagement: We offer resources and support for caregivers, helping them stay informed and involved in their child’s progress, including tips for at-home support.
Seamless communication and support: We provide transparent communication and engage all stakeholders—district leaders, teachers, caregivers, and students—keeping everyone aligned and informed.
Data reporting: We provide detailed reports and analytics to district and school leaders, empowering them to monitor progress, make data-driven decisions, and celebrate successes.
Amplify Tutoring is part of a connected early literacy suite.
Our literacy suite programs are designed to support and complement each other in a Multi-Tiered System of Supports. Learn more about our related programs.
¡El futuro es bilingüe! | The future is bilingual!
Pave the path to biliteracy with Amplify Caminos 3rd
Edition—a K–5 Spanish language arts program grounded in the Science of Reading and aligned with Amplify CKLA. It builds deep content knowledge and foundational skills through daily opportunities to read, write, and speak in Spanish.
Coming soon: Early release begins in the 2026–27 school year
Built for biliteracy success
Amplify Caminos isn’t just a translation of English instruction; it’s an authentic Spanish language arts program designed for Spanish literacy development. Flexible across transitional, dual language, and immersion programs, it pairs with Amplify CKLA to deliver a complete, research-based K–5 biliteracy solution.
Our approach
Guided by our core biliteracy principles, Amplify Caminos delivers instruction that’s structured, intentional, and aligned with how Spanish language learning develops.
Rooted in biliteracy research
At the heart of the Science of Reading is the Simple View of Reading: language comprehension x word recognition = skilled reading. Amplify Caminos and CKLA support both from day one—starting with two-strand instruction in grades K–2 and moving to an integrated approach in grades 3–5.
Foundational skills built for Spanish
Reading fluency starts with a sounds-first approach—beginning with the most common vowels and consonants before moving to syllables and words. In grades K–2, Lectoescritura lessons develop decoding with 100% decodable readers. In grades 3–5, foundational skills are woven into content-rich lessons.
Knowledge that sticks
Topic-based instruction across science, social studies, literature, and the arts helps students develop the knowledge they need to understand complex texts. Amplify Caminos and CKLA follow the Core Knowledge Sequence with aligned—but not identical—topics for consistent Tier 1 instruction in both languages.
Stories that reflect and connect
From 100% decodable readers in grades K–2 to authentic poetry and novel studies in grades 3–5, each selection is either written in Spanish or transadapted to reflect students’ language, culture, and lived experiences.
Aligned, not identical
Amplify Caminos mirrors Amplify CKLA with intentional unit-level alignment and authentic Spanish content where it matters most. The result? A seamless biliteracy path that honors each language and promotes cross-linguistic transfer.
Reach every learner, every day
Built-in scaffolds, multilingual supports, and small-group guidance help teachers reach students who need more support—and those who are ready for a challenge. Amplify Caminos and CKLA make it easy to differentiate in the moment and keep every student growing.
Celebrate bilingualism
Bilingualism strengthens brains and bridges cultures. Amplify Caminos and CKLA honor bilingual identities and support academic growth in both Spanish and English.
A complete biliteracy suite
One system. Two languages. Every learner.
Unite core instruction, assessment, and intervention—aligned across Spanish and English, grounded in the Science of Reading, and built to support every student within your MTSS framework.
- Instruct with Amplify Caminos + Amplify CKLA: Partnered programs build knowledge and skills—with shared structure and distinct content where it matters.
- Screen with mCLASS® Lectura + DIBELS® 8th Edition: The only screener with a dual-language report that connects student strengths across Spanish and English.
- Practice with Boost Lectura + Boost Reading: Digital, student-led intervention that adapts to each learner—reinforcing core skills in both languages.
- Grow with Amplify professional development: Science of Reading and biliteracy-focused training—plus real educator communities to grow and learn together.
What’s included
Explore the tools, texts, and tech that power great Spanish language arts instruction.
High-quality teacher materials
Teacher Guides, biliteracy implementation support, assessments, and lesson screens
Immersive student resources
Decodables, authentic and transadapted texts, activity books, and multisensory phonics tools
Robust digital platform
eBooks, interactive tools, teacher resources, and on-demand professional development with support for dual language implementation
Explore more programs based on the Science of Reading
All of the programs in our literacy suite are designed to support and complement each other. Learn more about our related programs:
