Amplify Caminos offers a variety of guides to support your literacy and biliteracy instruction and foster a love for reading among students. These tools are crafted to enhance classroom engagement and deepen conceptual understanding. Enrich your literacy instruction and effectively support your students' academic growth with the Amplify Caminos guides.

Learn more about the Guía de vocabulario of Amplify Caminos.

Amplify Caminos: Guías de libros comerciales (Trade Book Guides) provide a text overview and detailed text complexity ratings to support and enhance the content of the lessons. These texts are intended for use as an introduction to each domain—engaging students, piquing their curiosity, and building initial background knowledge—before diving into the deeper content of the video “con lectura en voz alta” (Read-aloud videos).

Find the Guías de libros comerciales in the Materiales of the Conocimiento units.

Every Guía de libros comerciales is created to support the authentic texts and includes engaging essential questions, key vocabulary, connected writing prompts, and other activities that help you guide students through discussion to successful reading comprehension.

Each guide includes:

The featured trade books are part of the Amplify Caminos Trade Book Collection and are available as a bundled purchase from Amplify or individually from traditional retailers. Contact your Amplify Sales Representative for more information.

In Amplify Caminos, 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. TheGuía de complejidad de los textos 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 Guía de complejidad de los textos in the Teacher Resource Site’s Program Resources under Recursos para la lectura (Reading Resources), or in the digital experience year overview (depending on your license).

The Guía de complejidad de los textos includes detailed information about Amplify Caminos 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 Guía de lectura independiente supports the implementation of an independent reading program to develop and enhance students' reading abilities within the Amplify Caminos 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.

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

This guide contains essential and guiding questions for each unit in Grades 3–5. Each Preguntas esenciales y sugerencias 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.

Find the Preguntas esenciales y sugerencias in the Materiales of each unit.

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: