Man is called upon to communicate with his fellow human beings by means of language implemented either by speech or by writing. In undertaking this research, we wanted to identify the level of mastery of 5th grade primary school students in Kisangani in French spelling and reading comprehension and to evaluate the degree of correlation between the performance of these students in spelling and reading comprehension. The data analysed in this study came from the educational planning and evaluation service of the University of Kisangani. After analysis, it was found that the performance of the students was low in both spelling and reading. And, there is a positive and significant correlation between spelling and reading performance. This suggests that a student who can write understands what he or she is writing and vice versa.

In conducting this study, we sought to determine the difficulties encountered by elementary school students in BENA-DIBELE in mathematics and French and to identify the strategies used by teachers to support students with difficulties. Based on an occasional sample of 60 teachers, we realized that the students of BENA-DIBELE experience learning difficulties. These include problems with spelling (23.5%), agreement (23.5%), writing (18%), diction (17.5%) and pronunciation (17%) in French; and problems with solving operations (50%), thinking (45.35%) and measurement (4.65%) in mathematics. To overcome these difficulties, teachers use several strategies to support these students. These include remediation (13.87%), assigning homework (17.65%) and questioning (13.66%), correcting homework (9.34%), submitting to application exercises (15.55%), checking work (6.30%) and assigning homework (11.75%). From the above, it is interesting that teachers multiply directed and homework assignments to help students better internalize the concepts learned and prepare their transfer to the field of everyday life. Also, it is necessary to facilitate the exchange of information between parents and teachers, both physically and through the communication notebooks, to inform them of their children's performance.