grader

Example Sentences

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His brother is a grader and his son is taking this April’s exam.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

She’s been pushing for San Marcos Unified to change its policies and is homeschooling her first grader in the meantime.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

Although Liam has since been released, “We’ve had other students in our building also taken in. We realized a fifth grader was also at the detention center; they had just kind of disappeared.”

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2026

The 43-year-old knows Estonian and helps her daughter with her studies, but the first grader confuses Russian and Estonian letters.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

“Isn’t he that eighth grader who looks like he’s thirty?”

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh