Beat the summer slide and give your rising 5th-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 4th grade and get advanced practice with the new skills they’ll encounter in the early months of 5th grade this fall. Bridging the Gap to 5th Grade Reading will emphasize understanding and using figurative language and identifying and describing different genres of writing, preparing students for comparing and contrasting multiple texts and understanding vocabulary in context in the school year to come.