Brenda Smith’s Bridging the Gap continues to be the #1 textbook choice of developmental reading educators. To improve students’ reading, Bridging the Gap offers comprehensive skill instruction, dependable exercises and examples, vocabulary development, and wealth of high-interest readings that provide meaningful practice. To prepare students for the demands of college reading, Brenda helping provides strategies for connecting previous experience(s) to what is being learned. The combination of Bridging the Gap and Pearson"s MyReadingLab (www.myreadinglab.com) offers unparalleled instruction and practice to improve students" reading.