{"id":344281,"date":"2025-11-11T13:58:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/online-academic-support\/school-curricula-cp-to-3e\/french-in-cm1\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T12:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T12:53:50","slug":"french-in-cm1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/online-academic-support\/school-curricula-cp-to-3e\/french-in-cm1\/","title":{"rendered":"French in CM1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>For this first year of <a href=\"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/quel-est-le-programme-scolaire-du-cycle-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cycle 3<\/a>, CM1 students work on <strong>French for 8h per week<\/strong> (and 5h of <a href=\"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/le-soutien-scolaire-a-distance\/les-programmes-scolaires-de-cp-a-la-3e\/les-mathematiques-en-classe-de-cm1\/\">mathematics<\/a>). A pivotal class, it involves developing new skills while building on the knowledge acquired in <a href=\"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/quel-est-le-programme-scolaire-a-lecole-elementaire-cycle-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cycle 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>The CM1 curriculum<\/h2>\n<p>In the CM1 class, French is organised around <strong>4 key areas<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Spoken language:<\/strong> sustaining attention for 10 minutes, listening, speaking with an audience in mind, taking on board others&#8217; points of view, adapting what they say accordingly&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reading and understanding written text<\/strong>: reading aloud fluently, understanding sentences and school texts of different kinds, rephrasing their content, becoming an independent reader&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Writing:<\/strong> writing fluently, producing a variety of written work, taking written-language conventions into account when drafting, transcribing and revising, using writing as a tool for thinking and learning&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language study:<\/strong> mastering the relationship between spoken and written language, identifying the components of a simple sentence, finding their way around a complex sentence, expanding vocabulary, acquiring grammatical and lexical spelling&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>End-of-year expectations for CM1 in French<\/h2>\n<p>By the end of the first year of cours moyen in French, a student must <strong>listen to and understand a spoken message<\/strong>, speak up to be heard or read short texts aloud, take part in exchanges while respecting collective rules, and assess themselves in order to improve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In reading and understanding written text<\/strong>, they must read a text at an average of 110 words per minute, understand and engage with a literary text, documents and images. <strong>In writing<\/strong>, they must produce an error-free copy of about ten lines, use their writing to list their ideas, express their impressions and produce a variety of written work while respecting written-language conventions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In terms of language study<\/strong>, they handle written and spoken language without confusion, identify the elements of a simple sentence (subject, verb, direct object, adverbial&#8230;), master subject-verb agreement and know the 3 verb groups in the present, imperfect and compound past tenses. Finally, they expand their vocabulary and memorise new invariable words.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-120774 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CM1-Francais-1024x723.png\" alt=\"End-of-year expectations for French in CM1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"723\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>To find out more<\/strong> about the end-of-CM1 expectations in French, <a href=\"https:\/\/eduscol.education.fr\/document\/13984\/download\">click here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-button-wrapper fusion-aligncenter\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat button-xlarge button-custom fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span \" style=\"--button_accent_color:#ffffff;--button_accent_hover_color:#ffffff;--button_border_hover_color:#ffffff;--button-border-radius-top-left:800px;--button-border-radius-top-right:800px;--button-border-radius-bottom-right:800px;--button-border-radius-bottom-left:800px;--button_gradient_top_color:#ecc55b;--button_gradient_bottom_color:#ecc55b;--button_gradient_top_color_hover:#ecc55b;--button_gradient_bottom_color_hover:#ecc55b;--button_text_transform:uppercase;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"\/espace-adherent\/rdv\/12-soutien-scolaire\"><i class=\"fa-calendar-check far awb-button__icon awb-button__icon--default button-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Book an online academic support appointment<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":344265,"menu_order":84,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-344281","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344301,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344281\/revisions\/344301"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}