Three hundred first-grade students (151 boys, 149 girls) from eleven different elementary schools in the Netherlands participated.

We give a brand new book to each first-grade student on the first day of school.

Last year there were 2,300 first-grade students.

Lisa Castaldo said that a couple of her first-grade students were skeptical, but she told them to keep their views to themselves.

The 76 first-grade students are divided into two classrooms, one with 50 students and two teachers.

Currently, the district has about 3,000 first-grade students and about 1,000 ninth-grade students.

The school's kindergarten and first-grade students, for instance, often work side-by-side.

Reading Recovery focuses on first-grade students who are having difficulty learning to read.

Two years ago the researchers returned to the three cities and retested more than half of the original first-grade students, now in the fifth grade.

Seeing my former first-grade student featured in your cover story evoked fond memories.