When you call the third-grade teacher and the principal inept and uninterested, you don't build a strong foundation to work from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living the 7 Habits] Reference

Strangely, I thought about my third-grade spelling bee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Makes Me Wanna Holler] Reference

His third-grade teacher had to encourage him to take turns.    From Wordnik.com.  [On His Own] Reference

We work with pre-kindergarten through third-grade teachers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why U.S. Teachers Aren't Making The Grade] Reference

Rochester teacher Alyson Ricci with her third-grade students.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Schools Into Their Own Hands] Reference

My third-grade teacher said nothing about it, nor did my parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earth Day - The View from the F Terminal] Reference

Next year he would be in high school with a third-grade reading level.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Murray: The Chicago Public School Teacher's Husband] Reference

Surmaal used to be an enthusiastic student in his third-grade classroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Craig and Marc Kielburger: Lack of Votes, Lack of Water] Reference

Below is a third-grade level dissection of HRC's innovative health care plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth Edwards: Hillary Took John's Health Plan] Reference

He was also the guy who helped me study for my third-grade state-capital quiz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perspectives] Reference

THE KIDS IN RUTH SHERMAN'S third-grade class loved the books she read to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caught In The Cross-Fire] Reference

And I'm afraid that kind of third-grade humor certainly adds to this atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2008] Reference

These people are the ones who were classroom and hallway monitors in third-grade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Greener: Public Office In America: The Reign Of Idiots] Reference

Tapper, people who make fun of other people's names are third-grade level morons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Gets Into Verbal Tussle With Reporter] Reference

Teacher Jessica Stillman and her third-grade class at P.S. 277 in the South Bronx.    From Wordnik.com.  [Schools Brace for Teacher Cuts] Reference

In a third-grade classroom, teachers have tacked their pupils 'drawings to the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Territorial Tensions Build Between Russia and Georgia] Reference

And even that number is rounded upward so generously as to flunk third-grade arithmetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Errors en Español] Reference

In a run-down west Baltimore neighborhood, there are 27 third-grade boys who love school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playing Catch-Up] Reference

This time-consuming overkill makes us feel as if we're all in a third-grade reading class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask Amy] Reference

Bill wants to be a third-grade teacher who loves his job, and he wants to go fishing with Jason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Blankenship: True Blood Sucker Punch: Season 3, Ep. 11] Reference

Miller explained that Joe had his third-grade class memorize the notes of one song using solfege.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steven Denlinger: Driving with Joe Overholt] Reference

He came as a teenager, without a penny or a word of English, and with only a third-grade education.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Can’t Take it with You] Reference

Now nine, he attends a regular third-grade class, with "enrichment" instruction in math and reading.    From Wordnik.com.  [Using Drugs to Fight Autism] Reference

During his testimony, this grown man spoke to us with what sounded like third-grade language skills.    From Wordnik.com.  [On a jury, but hardly a peer] Reference

DPS has set a goal of improving third-grade reading scores by 3.5 points every year for the next 5 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Scott: Apparently Michael Bennet Didn't Include Executive Accountability in His Reform Plans] Reference

Her father was a factory worker with a third-grade education, and died when Sotomayor was nine years old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court Nominee: All You Need To Know] Reference

Khris Nedam's third-grade class in Northville, Mich., fears for the children they've befriended in Afghanistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

But if another teacher goes into a third-grade class and says there is a Santa Claus, they'll all laugh at her.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Is Santa Claus Real?’] Reference

Another agency soon chimed in and had him listed as worth from five to ten thousand and with third-grade credit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Road] Reference

Respect is a lesson that some of our nation's leaders need to learn, as well as a refresher in third-grade civics.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL] Reference

Days before she died, Archuleta wrote to a third-grade pen pal: "This is how we show the Afghanistan people that we care.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rising Young Star] Reference

ANCOP members get 16 weeks of training, and they're required to have at least a third-grade proficiency in reading and writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight] Reference

"Their mission was humanitarian, and they went there to help people," said Nedam, a third-grade teacher from Livonia, Michigan.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Assistance Mission Massacre: 10 Civilian Volunteers Killed In Afghanistan] Reference

The son of a handyman with a third-grade education, he grew up in Cassopolis, Mich., a tiny farm community near the Indiana border.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Deal In Detroit] Reference