Years of parsing statutes, case law, and dense philosophical texts gave Emily a toolkit for breaking down any reading passage into its core claims and supporting evidence. She applies that same analytical approach to teach students how to identify main ideas, track an author's reasoning, and disting...

A philosophy degree from Princeton and a history master's from Berkeley means Jeff spent years doing nothing but reading — dense primary sources, competing scholarly arguments, texts where a single paragraph can shift an entire interpretation. He taught undergraduates at Berkeley how to pull apart t...

Between a master's in political science and an English bachelor's, Alex has spent years doing two very different kinds of reading — literary close reading where every word choice matters, and policy analysis where you have to extract an argument from fifty pages of data. That range means he can teac...

Three years of classroom reading intervention taught Molly exactly where comprehension tends to stall — whether a student struggles with making inferences, tracking a main idea across paragraphs, or connecting what they read to prior knowledge. She's Illinois-certified K-9 and holds degrees from Col...

I am a recent graduate of the University of Chicago with a BA in English and a MA in the Humanities. My specialties are tutoring in test prep, writing, and reading. I am more than happy to spend time on my students outside of our organized sessions to ensure everyone meets their goals. Please do not...

Breaking down a reading passage is a lot like stage-managing a complex production: you have to identify what matters, how the pieces connect, and what the creator intended. Ariela teaches students to annotate actively, distinguish main ideas from supporting details, and make inferences grounded in t...

A PhD in Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago means Gabriel spends his days reading across disciplines — literary analysis, social science research, ethnographic case studies — and synthesizing arguments that don't always speak the same language. He brings that cross-disciplina...

A literature degree from Vanderbilt means Jacob spent four years doing the kind of reading most students never encounter until college — pulling apart narrative structure, weighing competing interpretations, and figuring out how a writer's choices shape meaning paragraph by paragraph. He brings that...

When a student says they "don't get" a passage, the real issue is usually one of three things: unfamiliar vocabulary, losing the thread of a long argument, or missing implicit connections between paragraphs. Ilana diagnoses which bottleneck is actually slowing a reader down and builds targeted strat...

Strong reading comprehension comes down to a few trainable skills: identifying an author's purpose, tracking how an argument develops across paragraphs, and making inferences from context rather than guessing. Alan's Master's in Education gives him a toolkit for diagnosing exactly where a student's ...

A double major in English and Theater at the University of Chicago meant Andrew spent four years doing the kind of reading most students never encounter — dissecting plays line by line for subtext, staging implications, and the gap between what a character says and what they mean. That habit of read...

For students who struggle with reading comprehension, the problem often isn't vocabulary — it's not knowing what to do with a passage once they've read it. Jena teaches active reading strategies like annotation, summarizing paragraphs in the margins, and identifying an author's purpose before answer...

Years of teaching ESL and TOEFL prep taught Brenda something most reading tutors learn the hard way: comprehension problems often hide behind fluency that sounds fine out loud. Her psychology training at Northwestern sharpens that instinct — she picks up on where a student's understanding quietly dr...

Pulling meaning from a text is a skill that improves with specific strategies, not just more reading. Rebecca teaches students to identify an author's argument, distinguish main ideas from supporting details, and make inferences by connecting textual evidence — the same close-reading habits she deve...

Strong reading comprehension is really about knowing what to do when a passage doesn't make sense on the first pass — rereading strategically, identifying context clues, and distinguishing main ideas from supporting details. Anna has taught these skills to students ranging from elementary schoolers ...