Helping my child with French, by guiding them back to the rule
Fixing a mistake doesn't stop it coming back: finding the rule yourself is what makes it disappear. KAÏDO, a screen-free voice companion, supports French homework from ages 6 to 11 (CP to CM2): grammar, conjugation, spelling, writing. It guides the child to the rule with questions, without ever correcting for them.
Correcting, or making it understood
When you tell a child “it takes an s”, they write it, and make the same mistake the following week. A given correction leaves no trace: it short-circuits the little piece of reasoning that would have stuck. Primary-school French is exactly a set of rules to make your own, not a list of corrections to copy out.
KAÏDO does not correct: it questions. Faced with a doubtful agreement, it asks “who does this word refer to? how many are there?”. The child follows the thread, finds the rule, and applies it themselves. Next time, they will ask the question on their own.
How KAÏDO helps rediscover an agreement
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The child reads their sentence aloud
One press on the sphere, and they read what they wrote: “les enfant joue dans le jardin”. They sense something is off, without knowing what.
2
KAÏDO guides them to the rule
KAÏDO does not give the correct spelling. It asks: “How many children? So the verb agrees with whom?”. The child understands: “les enfants jouent”, plural subject, plural verb.
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They fix it, the light confirms
The child rewrites their sentence, and the sides of the sphere light up. Finding the agreement by yourself is worth ten corrections read on a page.
Grammar, conjugation, spelling, writing
French covers very different ground, and KAÏDO supports it all, adapting its questions to the child’s age, from ages 6 to 11:
- Grammar: spotting the subject, the verb, the nature of a word, to understand the sentence before writing it.
- Conjugation: finding the tense, the person and the ending, rather than reciting tables into the void.
- Spelling and agreements: “les enfants jouent”, homophones (a/à, et/est), plurals of nouns.
- Writing: finding ideas, putting them in order, re-reading to self-correct, without writing for them.
Not the correction. The rule that replaces it.
And you, you keep the thread
You no longer have to choose between “that's just how it is” and a grammar explanation you've forgotten. KAÏDO carries the moment, and the parent app gives you a weekly picture: the topics worked on, the ones that keep coming up. Not a list of mistakes: just enough to know where your child stands.
The level of guidance adjusts from the app: more hints on a hard rule, fewer once it is mastered. Never the answer. KAÏDO is designed in France, screen-free, with no open-ended chat, GDPR-compliant data, never sold or used for advertising.
Your questions about primary-school French
My child keeps making the same agreement mistakes. What can I do?
That is the sign that correcting is not enough. KAÏDO does not hand back the right spelling: it works back to the rule through questions (“is the subject singular or plural?”) so the agreement becomes a reflex, not one more correction.
Can KAÏDO help with a piece of writing?
Yes, without writing for the child. It helps them find their ideas, order them and re-read to spot their own mistakes. The writing stays theirs, from the first word to the full stop.
My child recites conjugations but gets them wrong when writing. Is that serious?
Very common: reciting a table and applying it are two different things. KAÏDO bridges the gap in context (which tense, which person, which ending) at the moment the child writes, where the rule really matters.
Does KAÏDO give the correct spelling when my child is stuck?
No, never. It asks simpler questions and recalls the rule at play until the child finds it alone. From the app, you adjust the level of hints, never the written answer.
Rules that stick, not mistakes that return.
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