1st grade

Six-year-olds' classroom

1st grade is the first year of formal elementary education in the United States, typically for children aged six or seven.

It follows kindergarten and precedes 2nd grade.

The term appears in compounds: a 1st grade classroom, 1st grade reading level.

Also written first grade.

Related

student · backpack · bus stop · storytime · draw · homework · pencil · nap time · line · playground · friendship · show and tell · reading · chapter books · phonics · learning to read · counting · number line

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educational progression

1st grade12th grade

Final secondary school year

senior year · high school senior · graduate school · college · university

academic sophistication

1st gradeadvanced degree

Post-baccalaureate academic credential

professional school · doctoral dissertation · medical school · law school · master's thesis

difficulty/sophistication level

1st gradeadvanced

Far along in development

professional-grade · sophisticated · complex · remedial

Family

1st, grade, grades, graded, grading, grader, gradation, gradient, gradual

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