Prepared gradually in nursery school, learning to read continues upon entry into CP. This work is essential so that your child can read correctly and acquire good foundations that will serve him throughout his life. However, reading is a complex activity that requires time and rigor. It has also been proven that reading skills play a fundamental role in academic success. The preparatory course is therefore a key stage in learning to read which will continue until the end of elementary school. At the beginning of December, Céline Alvarez, author and teacher, relayed on her Instagram account a rather edifying study which reveals that children only actively read 7 minutes per day in first grade.
According to a study conducted by Bruno Suchaut and entitled Seven minutes to learn to read: in search of lost time, out of 870 hours of CP, only 20 hours are devoted to active learning to read – or 7 minutes per day, c that is to say 2% of school time. “This hourly volume is largely insufficient to enable learning to read to be tackled in good conditions for all schoolchildren,” specifies the author of the study.
Clarification all the same: “these 7 minutes do not represent the time devoted to the lesson linked to reading, but to the reading itself by child. You turn on the stopwatch each time a CP student actively engages in a reading activity”, explains (…)
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