EL Education Language Arts — Elementary

The EL Education curriculum has significant gaps in vocabulary, spelling, grammar, and writing instruction. In our experience, it also lacks sufficient comprehension practice aligned with Tennessee’s state assessment expectations, requiring teachers to create or find additional materials to prepare students adequately. Lessons are often too lengthy, and spending several weeks on a single text or topic makes it difficult to maintain student engagement and cover other essential skills. Many materials do not hold our students’ interest. As a result, we constantly have to supplement the curriculum to meet students’ needs, address foundational skills, and support state testing readiness. This creates a substantial additional workload for teachers.

The curriculum comes with multiple materials just for the teacher. Rather than just having one "teacher guide". The teacher materials are difficult to follow. Extensive training would be required to get the in depth picture of how to use EL. Teachers will need to supplement for writing.