Beat the summer slide and give your rising 3rd-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 2nd grade and get advanced practice with the new skills they’ll encounter in the early months of 3rd grade this fall. Bridging the Gap to 3rd Grade Reading will emphasize using context clues to determine the meaning of words and reading to understand how characters react to events within stories, preparing students for reading to find the main idea of a passage and using root words and context clues to decipher unknown words in the school year to come.