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Mrs. Melaika Brown
Elementary Supervisor

Mrs. Jaclynn Lightsey
Secondary Supervisor

Phone: 240-740-4006

English Language Arts Staff

Academics → English Language Arts → Elementary School

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

Goal

All students receive instruction in grade-level content and skills, along with appropriate scaffolds and supports, in order to become skillful readers and communicators empowered to navigate an increasingly complex and information-rich world.

Curriculum

Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) is a language arts program for Grades PreK–5 that combines a multi-sensory approach to phonics with rich texts carefully sequenced to build content knowledge—so that students learn to read and read to learn at the same time.

Built on the Science of Reading research, CKLA sequences deep content knowledge with research-based foundational skills. Every day in Grades PreK–2, students complete one full lesson that builds foundational reading skills, as well as one full lesson that builds background knowledge. In Grades 3–5, students start to master the skills of reading, further opening up their worlds.

CKLA Program Guide

Enduring Understandings

  • Language is a powerful tool for expressing ideas, beliefs, and feelings.
  • Knowledge of language facilitates thought. 
  • Readers, listeners, and viewers continually develop and apply strategies to construct meaning from increasingly complex and challenging texts. 
  • Writers and speakers strategically use language to communicate for a variety of purposes. 
  • Individuals need advanced literacy skills to participate actively and successfully in today’s demanding, information-based society. 
  • Literature reveals the complexities of the world.

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Parent/Caregiver Resources

MCPS is excited to announce the adoption of Amplify CKLA (Pre K-5) as its English Language Arts Curriculum for the 2024-2025 School Year.