"Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) is a comprehensive, preschool through fifth grade program for teaching reading, writing, listening, and speaking while also building students' vocabulary and knowledge across essential domains in literature, global and American history, and the sciences. In the early grades, CKLA focuses on oral language development through carefully senquenced read-alouds and in-depth discussions while also immersing students in complex texts and advanced writing assignments that draw on th academic content they've been engaged in since preschool."