A circular containing corrective measures to improve the spelling level of French students will be published on Thursday 12 January by the Ministry of Education for the attention of rectors and teachers, reports Le Parisien. Between daily dictation, reading hours and speed, and comprehension skills, many ideas are addressed in the text. Point.
The observation is as follows: the spelling level of French pupils is getting worse. According to the statistics agency of the Ministry of Education (Depp), which conducted a survey on this topic, for the same dictation for CM2 students, the average number of errors increased from 10.7 errors to 19.4 , from 1987 to 2021.
Faced with this problem, ideas are multiplying for measures aimed at raising the level of schoolchildren in France. Therefore, this Thursday, January 12, a circular containing corrective measures should be published by the Ministry of Education for the attention of rectors and teachers, reports The Parisian. But what does this text contain?
1. Daily dictation
With the number of errors in pupils’ copies having almost doubled in 34 years, Pap Ndiaye, the Minister of National Education, opted for daily dictation for pupils in CM1 and CM2. The latter must allow “understanding and respecting the rules of grammar and spelling” seen several weeks earlier, he specifies Information about France who had access to the government note.
2. 2 hours of reading and writing per day
The minister wants to force CM1 and CM2 students to write and read at least two hours a day. If this measure is already more or less applied in certain classes, Pap Ndiaye wants to be severe. He imagines schoolchildren reading at least “two long texts,” at least 1,000 words each, every week, he says Information about France.
3. A reading speed of 120 words per minute
Likewise, the former teacher wants to strengthen “decoding”, the ability to read and understand quickly. For this, the CM2 must have the ability to read 120 wpm.
4. 1 hour of weekly support in French or mathematics for sixth graders
The text to be published on Thursday is also expected to detail a measure previously announced by Pap Ndiaye on 4 January. This is the hour of weekly support in French or maths for sixth graders. The former historian wants to “make sure sixth grade is better.”
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