first graders

Kids learning to read

First graders are children in the first grade of elementary school, typically six or seven years old.

In American education, first grade marks the beginning of formal academic instruction after kindergarten: The first graders are learning to read.

The term often evokes innocence or basic-level understanding: This explanation is so simple a first grader could follow it.

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