Beat the summer slide and give your rising 4th-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 3rd grade and get advanced practice with the new skills they’ll encounter in the early months of 4th grade this fall. Bridging the Gap to 4th Grade Reading will emphasize using context clues and root words to get “unstuck” when confronted with new vocabulary and reading for the main idea of a passage, preparing students for identifying and describing different genres of writing and understanding figurative language such as similes and metaphors in the school year to come.