Amplify CKLA 3rd Edition is designed to complement the hands-on classroom experiences that educators value. The Activity Builder enhances classroom interactions with customizable presentation screens that help teachers keep students engaged, effectively pace their lessons, and demonstrate important worksheet practices through real-time modeling. Students actively participate through verbal responses or by working on paper, contributing their ideas during teacher-led classroom discussions.

These features are not available for digital assessments.

You can also supplement their in-person lessons with engaging digital experiences in the Student Hub.

Customize your Amplify CKLA 3rd Edition lessons with the Copy and edit feature. Use the interactive features of the Activity Builder to tailor your lessons to fit your teaching style and meet your students' needs.

This creates a copy of the activity and opens the copy for you to edit in the Activity Builder.

The Activity Builder has several components that allow educators to customize presentation screens. Teachers facilitate active student participation by encouraging verbal responses and guiding discussions to draw out student insights. Presentation screens are used by the teacher to project a lesson and cannot be assigned to students.

You can also use the Activity Builder to create and assign customized digital activities to students. To assign customized digital activities, copy the presentation screens into a new activity. You can modify the new activity and publish it as a digital activity to assign to students. This flexibility enables you to offer a tailored learning experience for your classroom.

Click Publish to save and create your custom activity so you can assign it. To manage your custom activity, click the down arrow:

Customized activities do not display in reporting.

The following features are available in the Activity Builder and can be used for customized digital activities:

Note | Responses | Multiple Choice, Checkboxes, and Ordered List | Graph | Sketch | Media | Table | Action Button | Polypad | Graphing Calculator | Card Sort | Challenge Creator | Polygraph | Additional options

Teachers can add notes to lessons that display to students. Combine textual responses with mathematical symbols or diagrams if discussing thematic elements that involve quantitative data, such as timelines or sequencing events.

The Free Response component collects student responses as text, image, or recorded audio, allowing students to express their understanding creatively. Students can use the Free Response component to write summaries, reflections, or analyses of reading passages. They can combine textual responses with mathematical symbols or diagrams if discussing thematic elements that involve quantitative data, such as timelines or sequencing events.

Math Response, while collecting numbers, expressions, and equations, can help students interpret data in stories, such as timelines or sequence events numerically.

Use both in combination with a graph, image, or note to drive class discussions.

Multiple Choice, Checkboxes, and Ordered List can be used to spark, capture, and discuss student thinking.

Graph components can be used alone or combined with other components like Note. You can add graphs for visual storytelling to map out a story timeline or character relationships, or visualize themes like conflict and resolution over the course of a narrative.

Sketch components offer an easy way to gather informal student thinking. There are three background options (blank, graph, and custom image) to encourage creative thinking and can be used to relate to specific narrative settings or thematic elements. Students can draw scenes from a book or illustrate character emotions.

Use the Media component to add images and video to your activity. Click Choose a file to upload, or drag-and-drop the media into the box.

You can add image descriptions and video captions to the media you upload. Image descriptions are an alt-text description of the image for people who can’t see the image. This is helpful for people who use screen readers.

The Table component allows students to explore connections between multiple representations. Tables can organize story elements, such as character traits, plot details, or vocabulary words and their meanings. Students can also compare themes or settings between different texts.

The Action Button lets you control other components on the screen using the Computation Layer.

Use virtual manipulatives in your activities to explore ideas with students. Polypad's manipulatives can be used to depict story elements. You can use geometric shapes to represent characters or plot points and arrange them to show relationships or hierarchies.

Start with a blank canvas for students to experiment with or lay some tiles down to guide their experience.

Polypad can be used as a Fullscreen component or a partial component.

To use a Fullscreen component, you must delete the existing components on the screen, or click the + icon to add a new screen with no components.

A Fullscreen polypad is the only component on the screen. Activity authors can fully customize the options available to students.

A partial screen polypad can be used along with other components. Activity authors have full access to the tile sidebar and customization options, but students won’t have the tile sidebar.

Choose from different types of tiles: Geometry, Numbers, Fractions, Algebra, Probability and Data, and Games and Applications. Clicking on a type of tile will expand the options for that tile.

The Graphing Calculator component gives students full access to the power of the Desmos Graphing Calculator. Use it to set up some initial equations for students to explore or leave it blank for students to create anything they like. Students can graph data related to a text's context or create visual representations of thematic statistical data.

Graphing Calculator is a Fullscreen component. To use it, you must delete the existing components on the screen, or click the + icon to add a new screen with no components.

Card sort activities can generate rich discussions. The Card Sort tool allows you to create, deliver, and facilitate discussions around card sort activities. You can use Card Sort to categorize information, such as themes, character traits, or story events, or to facilitate discussions about narrative structure or thematic similarities in multiple texts.

Card Sort is a Fullscreen component. To use it, you must delete the existing components on the screen, or click the + icon to add a new screen with no components.

Add a Challenge Creator to your activities to give students the social and creative learning experience of making, solving, and sharing challenges that involve critical thinking and interpretation of texts with their peers.

You can design the Challenge Creator using screens and Computation Layer. The Computation Layer is a powerful tool that can increase interactivity in your activities. It can link different components together, personalizing your content and offering dynamic feedback to enhance learning experiences in your classroom.

Challenge Creator is a Fullscreen component. To use it, you must delete all the other components on the screen.

Polygraph is a partnered guessing game that helps boost language skills and vocabulary use. In each round, paired players take turns as the 'Picker,' who chooses a card, and the 'Guesser,' who asks yes/no questions to find the selected card.

Create your custom Polygraph by designing 16 unique cards. You must have 16 unique cards, or the Polygraph screen will not show to students.

Polygraph is a Fullscreen component. To use it, you must delete the existing components on the screen, or click the + icon to add a new screen with no components.

Customize your Polygraph by entering an equation in the expression list or adding an image.

Between rounds, students answer questions that focus their attention on vocabulary and strategy. You can incorporate premade reflection questions, or create custom reflection questions for students.

You will be able to see all the rounds your students have played from the Teacher dashboard. Click the game to see the details of the round.

Click on the title of the activity while editing to find additional options.

Radians/Degrees toggle: Use this to change the default angle measurement for all calculations in an activity, including math inputs, tables, graphs, and Computation Layer.

Note that graph settings will not change if the activity settings do. If your activity is in degrees, but has a graph in radians, you’ll receive a warning.

Add a calculator is not available for Grades K–5.