Sentence examples for grader reading from inspiring English sources

They want a skilled, passionate orator, not a business executive with a nasal voice, a Boston accent and the speaking cadence of an eighth grader reading an essay on the meaning of Flag Day.

Councilwoman Inez E. Dickens, who grew up in Harlem and whose district is in Central Harlem, said that when she was a third grader reading at a first-grade level, a literacy program run by the Handmaids got her up to speed.

After Khristian Howard, an earnest seventh grader, read "Chaka!

One morning this spring Jabari Denson, an eighth grader, read aloud "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes.

Ms. Fouché-Channer said her daughter, Addis, a second grader, reads beyond her bedtime frequently.

Once a week, Tatianna Fahie, 7, a second grader, reads as Gretyl lies calmly across her lap.

"The average Indian fifth grader reads like a second grader in Britain or the U.S. Two-thirds of them can't read a paragraph or do simple fractions," Mr. Jeevan said.

Today the average black 12th grader reads at the level of an average white 8th grader and has the math skills of a white 7th grader.

The average fifth grader reads approximately 1 million words of text in a year and of those words, approximately 15,000 to 55,000 different words are novel to the reader (Nagy, Herman, & Anderson, 1985).

"I have eighth graders reading at a third-grade level," she said.

The show, which includes a continuous audiotape of fifth graders reading some of the letters, is both wrenching and hopeful.