Bridges
to Literature and Content | Grades 6–8
Bridges is a standards-based literacy designed to empower middle school students—including striving readers and long-term multilingual learners (LTELs)—to become stronger independent readers. This powerful print and digital solution develops academic language and literacy skills through authentic texts and content-driven lessons, helping all students achieve grade-level proficiency. With the Assess to Learn system, teachers can assess ongoing learning progress, discover skills gaps, and personalize instruction!
What to Expect with Bridges
Bridges is designed to help English learners and striving readers achieve grade-level proficiency through carefully scaffolded supports and highly engaging activities.
- Develops proficiency in the vocabulary, reading, listening, speaking, writing, and grammar skills that are vital to success in school and in life
- Promotes academic language development and scaffolds reading and writing skills
- Engages students with rich, motivating literary texts and thought-provoking informational texts in science, social studies, math, and other content areas
- Engages students with authentic media and a rich digital learning environment designed specifically to support language learning
- Supports teachers with scope and sequence, pacing guides, instructional routines, socio-emotional learning opportunities, differentiated instruction and activities, scripted models, audio scripts, assessments, home-school connection activities, and more
Explore the Bridges Digital Experience
Bridges offers an unparalleled digital learning environment with interactive, media-rich student and teacher resources and the Assess to Learn system for progress monitoring, proficiency assessments, and personalized instruction.
- Interactive Student Books with embedded audio, video, and activities
- Interactive Practice Books
- Online Teacher Edition
- Online gradebook to track student and class progress
- Assessment program with placement test, quizzes, and more
- School-to-home letters in multiple languages
- AI-Assisted Feedback for Open-ended Activities