Amplify CKLA offers a variety of guides to support you in fostering a deeper understanding of concepts and a love for reading among your students. These tools are crafted to enhance classroom reading time and inspire a passion for literature. Enrich your literacy instruction and effectively support your students' academic growth with the Amplify CKLA guides.

Learn about the Amplify CKLA Vocabulary Guide (opens in a new tab).

Amplify CKLA Trade Book Guides provide comprehensive support for lesson content through text overviews and detailed text complexity ratings. These guides are designed to enhance engagement with authentic texts and feature:

These guides are found in the Knowledge Domain’s Unit Materials and serve to introduce each domain, engaging students and building background knowledge before using Read-Aloud Videos.

Each guide includes:

The trade books in these guides are part of the Amplify CKLA Trade Book Collection, available in bundles from Amplify or individually from traditional retailers. Contact your Amplify Sales Representative for more information.

Amplify CKLA Novel Guides facilitate contemporary novel studies with engaging, authentic texts that students love. Novel guides are available for Grades 3–5. You can find novel guides in the Teacher Resource Site in the grade level daily instruction, or in the Unit Materials (depending on your license).

These guides feature award-winning novels with relatable characters and exciting plots to foster a love for reading and ELA skills development.

Features of Novel Guides:

Novel Guides are designed for flexible grouping and implementation. They can be used for an entire class, or they may be assigned to individuals or groups of students.

Possible implementation scenarios include:

Each Novel Guide comes with a Teacher Edition and a Student Edition.

Current Novel Guides:

In Amplify CKLA, texts serve a variety of purposes—from decoding and fluency practice to building background knowledge, vocabulary, and comprehension. The program’s texts were created and curated according to what the latest and best research tells us about how students learn to read, write, and comprehend. TheText Complexity Guide provides you with information about the texts, the ways in which students engage with them, and a unit-by-unit description of each text.

You can find the Text Complexity Guide in the Teacher Resource Site’s Program Resources under Reading Resources, or in the Unit Materials (depending on your license).

The Text Complexity Guide includes detailed information about Amplify CKLA texts—including Student Readers, Read-Alouds, and the Trade Book Collection. It identifies the text as literary or informational, has a unit-by-unit description of each text, and includes text complexity ratings and descriptors for quantitative, qualitative, and reader/task measures. Text complexity analysis scores accompany every text.

The Independent Reading Facilitation Guide supports the implementation of an independent reading program to develop and enhance students' reading abilities within the Amplify CKLA framework. It provides step-by-step implementation guidance for setting up an independent reading program and includes reading logs, graphic organizers, discussion questions, and other materials to ensure the program’s success.

Program Goals:

For optimal use, integrate this guide with your Amplify CKLA curriculum to ensure a successful independent reading program.

This guide contains essential and guiding questions for each unit in Grades 3–5. Each guide has questions, writing prompts, and activities that enable students to engage meaningfully with new information and ideas they have learned in each unit as well as express what they’ve learned with creative and collaborative projects.

The guides provide content knowledge and ensure that students have multiple opportunities to interact with the text and gain a deeper understanding of the topics.

Each guide includes: