The last class before starting collège, CM2 devotes 8h per week to French (and 5h to mathematics), consolidating and deepening the fundamental learning of cycle 2. In this subject, one of the priorities of cycle 3 is writing texts…
The CM2 curriculum
French in the CM2 class is organised around 4 key areas:
- Spoken language: listening, asking questions, expressing a point of view, speaking in front of others, reciting…
- Reading and understanding written text: improving reading speed and silent-reading efficiency, understanding a variety of texts by identifying the main elements (subject, characters, event…) and the elements contributing to overall coherence (linking words, punctuation, pronouns…)…
- Writing: narrating real events, describing them, explaining them, inventing stories, summarising them, writing a poem and following composition guidelines…
- Language study: expanding and structuring vocabulary, mastering simple sentences and starting to tackle complex sentences (active and passive voice, word types and functions…), working on spelling through dictation, copying and writing (grammatical and lexical spelling)…
End-of-year expectations for CM2 in French
By the end of their last year of elementary school, a CM2 student must, orally in French, sustain extended attention (15 minutes) to be able to summarise the key points, speak with an audience in mind, take part in exchanges in any situation and self-assess in order to improve.
In reading and understanding written text, the student must read fluently at a rate of at least 120 words per minute, understand a literary text, documents and images and engage with them. In writing, they must copy about fifteen lines neatly and legibly, use writing as a tool for thinking and learning, produce a variety of written work (skits, poems…), develop, structure and punctuate their text…
In terms of language study, a CM2 student must master the relationship between spoken and written language, identify the components of a simple sentence (direct object, indirect object, adverbial…), distinguish word classes, master grammatical agreement, use a dictionary easily and expand their vocabulary.
To find out more about the end-of-CM2 expectations in French, click here!
