Beat the summer slide and give your rising 8th-grader a running start into the school year with Bridging the Gap reading classes this summer. In this class, students will review the most important building block skills from 7th grade and get advanced practice with the new skills they’ll encounter in the early months of 8th grade this fall. Bridging the Gap to 8th Grade Reading will emphasize interpreting words based on Greek and Latin roots and identifying an authors’ primary purpose and point of view, preparing students for identifying rhetorical structures within complex texts and reading to find the main idea and theme of informational and literary texts in the school year to come.