The CE1 class is at the heart of cycle 2, after CP and before CE2. Following the 10 weekly hours of French (the main subject, along with the 5h of mathematics), the student must continue building on these fundamental skills to move into cycle 3, which focuses on deepening this knowledge…
The CE1 curriculum
In CE1, French lessons are organised around 4 key areas:
- Spoken language: respecting sentence structure, expressing relationships of causality and circumstance, using conjugation correctly, diversifying vocabulary, reciting texts, speaking for longer and in a structured way…
- Reading and understanding written text: mastering fluent reading, decoding and writing known words legibly and independently, understanding reference texts and poetry…
- Writing: organising ideas, choosing vocabulary to link sentences and write a short text…
- Language study: expanding vocabulary, identifying the elements of a sentence, conjugating the most frequent verbs, as well as être and avoir in the present, future, imperfect and compound past tenses, paying attention to spelling to better control it…
End-of-year expectations for CE1 in French
In spoken language, by the end of the CE1 year, the student must listen to and understand spoken messages or texts read aloud, take part in exchanges, and self-correct the language they produce. In reading, they must better identify words, understand a text and justify their interpretation or answers, and read from a variety of media (illustrations, diagrams, tables…), aloud or silently.
In writing, they must copy, identify the characteristics of texts (narrative, informative, argumentative, poetic…), and improve their written output. In language study, they must move easily from spoken to written language, categorise words, begin learning lexical spelling, find their way around a simple sentence and master basic grammatical spelling.
To find out more about the end-of-CE1 expectations in French, click here!
