Core Instruction

Program/Strategy: CKLA Knowledge Strand (K-5) Amplify ELA (6-8)

Key Instructional Features: Read-alouds, content-based texts, academic vocabulary, class discussions

Program/Strategy: CKLA Skills Strand

Key Instructional Features: Explicit phonics, decoding, fluency practice, spelling, handwriting

Program/Strategy: Heggerty (Grades K-2)

Key Instructional Features: Daily, brief lessons focusing on rhyming, alliteration, blending, segmenting, manipulating phonemes (adding, deleting, substituting), and phoneme isolation through auditory activities and kinesthetic movements.

Program/Strategy: CKLA (Integrated)

Key Instructional Features: Tier II & Tier III vocabulary, morphology, grammar

Program/Strategy: The Writing Revolution (TWR) (K-12)

Key Instructional Features: Sentence-level work, note-taking, outlines, evidence-based responses

Program/Strategy: CKLA Writing Tasks + TWR Techniques (K-12)

Key Instructional Features: Narrative, informative, opinion writing; scaffolds from TWR

Program/Strategy: CKLA Discussions + TWR Strategies

Key Instructional Features: Turn-and-talks, text-based discussions, oral rehearsal of writing

Program/Strategy: CKLA Science & Social Studies Topics
Key Instructional Features: Science & social studies themes embedded in ELA