The phrase "the first readings" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a certain set of readings that are considered the first of their kind, or the first ones to be studied or read. For example, you could say, "The first readings in our English literature class were from the Romantic period."
The first readings took place Monday and Tuesday, as students at three Manhattan middle schools read excerpts from "Artemis Fowl," a fantasy-adventure about a 12-year-old criminal mastermind by a former schoolteacher, EOIN COLFER.
Then the first readings came back.
The first readings are over, the tired eyes glazed, the mammoth tomes laid aside.
When the first readings were taken, in 1958, the atmosphere at Mauna Loa contained about 315 parts per million of carbon dioxide.
The new setbacks emerged as the first readings from American data collection flights over the plant in northeastern Japan showed that the worst contamination had not spread beyond the 19-mile range of highest concern established by the Japanese.
WASHINGTON — The first readings from American data-collection flights over the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan show that the worst contamination has not spread beyond the 19-mile range of highest concern established by Japanese authorities.
This is the first opportunity for the Lords to discuss the bill (the First Reading, on 28 May, simply entered the bill into the Lords' timetable).
I'm pleased to announce that Guardian readers have not heeded Tony Parsons' pleas for Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled to be burned, but have instead chosen it as the subject for the first Reading group of 2015.
Teacher accountability for teaching the standards is measured through the administration of the first Reading SOL test given in grade Three (Maleyko & Gawlik, 2011).
The first reading from each interviewer was discarded, and the second readings from two physicians were recorded and averaged.
Peers will also rattle through the third readings of two private members' bills from the Commons - the Local Government (Religious Observances) Bill and the Health and Social Care (Safety and Quality) Bill.
