It is rare that many 4th and 5th graders still read and write slowly.

4th and 5th graders still read slowly and have to spell.

Previously, PV received many streams of information stating that many 4th and 5th grade students at Po E Primary School read slowly, write slowly, and even do not know how to read and do simple calculations... To broaden public opinion, PV contacted and went with the leaders of the Department of Education and Training of Kon Plong district to record the above incident.

At Po E Primary School, the reporter, together with the Department of Education and Training, school leaders and homeroom teachers, had some students in grades 5A and 5B read each paragraph, write words and do simple calculations. However, according to the records, many students in these two classes are still slow in reading, writing and calculating.

Po E Primary School is located in a disadvantaged commune in Kon Plong district, nearly 100km from the center of Kon Tum city.

For example, YN and YSN (students in grades 5A and 5B) not only read slowly, write slowly, but even when pointing to each letter to read, they still pronounce incorrectly. Only when the homeroom teacher reminds and reads “for” them can they complete their reading exercises. In addition, their listening, writing, and calculating skills are also very slow.

Ms. Vo Thi Bich Co - homeroom teacher of class 5B said: "The students in the class all know how to read, write and calculate, but there are still some students who are a bit slow, especially YSN and AK who are the slowest. Their current learning ability is probably due to their lack of knowledge from below. In addition, they cannot combine many compound words. Most of the students in this class often make mistakes in accents, the grave accent is read as the acute accent, so they often mispronounce."

According to Ms. Y Kieu - the homeroom teacher of class 5A, the students are slow to learn, from reading, writing and calculations. Teachers have to teach slowly and patiently for the students to be able to learn. There are also many slow readers in the class, the slowest of which is YN.

Many 5th grade students still read and write slowly because they are absent from school a lot and cannot keep up with the knowledge.

In addition to the 5th graders, many 4th graders are in the same situation. In particular, A.D., although he has finished the first semester of grade 4, not only does he read slowly, he also has to spell out each letter. Typically, in the reading practice exercise “Going to work in the fields”, the first line has about 16 words but it took A.D. more than 1 minute to finish reading. However, most of the words he pronounces are wrong, especially compound words.

According to Mr. Le Tan Truong Anh - Principal of Po E Primary School, the school has 227 students, of which 98% are Hre ethnic minorities. Every week and every month, the school always surveys the quality of students in 5 grades. To maintain the number of students to ensure the quality of teaching, the school has mobilized many funding sources to implement projects such as: "Nuoi em", "Poor students in the highlands"... However, improving the quality of education in Po E commune still faces many difficulties and obstacles.

Even though they are in 4th grade, they are still reading and spelling.

A typical example is that parents do not care about their students, especially during the harvest season. Although the school has coordinated with the government to go to their homes to propagate, the people's economy is still facing many difficulties, so parents often take their children with them to take care of them or help their parents. Because they do not attend school regularly, their academic performance is still weak and their learning is slow.

Is there a situation of sitting in the wrong class?

After surveying the quality of the students' learning with the reporter, teacher Le Tan Truong Anh said: "For the 4th grade, many students have slow reading speed, reading does not meet the standard. Compared to the 4th grade, the students have not reached the standard, their reading speed is around the 2nd or 3rd grade. As for the 5th grade students, it is better, they do not read and spell, they read more fluently but their speed is still slow. If according to the basic knowledge standard, the slow readers in the 5th grade are only at the level of the 3rd to 4th grade."

In addition, their listening and writing skills are also very slow.

Explaining the reason for the above situation, the Principal of Po E Primary School said: “Because families do not care about their children, they leave them to the teachers and the school. However, parents do not hand their children over to the school completely, and when the harvest season comes, they take their children to work far away. Therefore, children often have to miss school, so they cannot absorb knowledge in class to keep up with their friends, and at the same time, their awareness of participating in learning is still poor and they are not self-motivated. In addition, partly because most of the teachers at the school are contract teachers, often have to rotate, so it also affects teaching and learning to some extent.”

According to Mr. Anh, if students attend school regularly, the school can divide them into tutoring and knowledge enrichment for weak students. However, if students continue to miss school regularly like this, it is expected that in the 2023-2024 school year, about 10 students in grades 3, 4, and 5 will have to stay back a grade.

In addition to absenteeism, most of the teachers at the school are contract teachers and are often rotated, which more or less affects teaching and learning.

Mr. Le Van Dong - Deputy Head of the Department of Education and Training of Kon Plong District said: "In addition to implementing the resolution to improve the quality of education in mountainous areas of the Kon Plong District Party Committee and Kon Tum Provincial Party Committee, each facility will have a specific plan. For example, at Po E Primary School, the department directed the school's Board of Directors after surveying students who were weak in reading to assign them to the Board of Directors to develop a plan to help them. In addition, homeroom teachers must also pay more attention to those students. At each stage, the school must report specifically and at the end of the year must commit that these students must reach the level of that grade."

According to Mr. Dong, to say that students sit in the wrong class is no longer the case, but for some communes that have become new rural areas, there are still some students who are weak in reading. As for the quality of Po E students, in general, there are still some students like the ones we surveyed who have not reached the quality of that grade. However, the school and the department also have solutions to achieve quality so that students can move up to the next grade, with the motto "no student is left behind, every student can go to school".

Article and photos: Tran Hien

Source: https://www.congluan.vn/kon-tum-hy-huu-nhieu-em-hoc-sinh-lop-4-5-van-doc-viet-cham-post280978.html