Struggling readers often need something more targeted than "read more" — they need someone who can pinpoint whether the breakdown is in decoding, fluency, vocabulary, or comprehension and then address that specific gap. Liz's Master's in Special Education gave her diagnostic tools and intervention strategies for students with learning disabilities, dyslexia, and ADHD, and she's applied them across a wide range of learners in Boston classrooms. She builds reading stamina and comprehension simultaneously, using texts matched to each student's level and interests.

Developing culturally literate curricula for middle and high schoolers — the kind where students actually want to read the assigned material — taught Elena that engagement isn't a bonus, it's the mechanism through which comprehension improves. Her McGill and Edinburgh training in religious studies means she's spent years pulling meaning from texts that are ancient, dense, and deliberately ambiguous, which translates into a knack for showing students how to wrestle with unfamiliar language and extract an author's argument even when the writing resists easy summary.

Strong readers don't just decode words — they identify an author's argument, evaluate evidence, and make inferences across paragraphs. Reid approaches reading comprehension as a teachable skill set, breaking down strategies for annotating, summarizing, and distinguishing main ideas from supporting details. His experience spans middle school through college-level texts.

Strong reading comprehension isn't just about understanding vocabulary — it's about tracking an author's argument, recognizing tone shifts, and distinguishing main ideas from supporting details. Tom, who scored a 1520 on the SAT, applies the same close-reading techniques from his literary training to help students decode everything from standardized test passages to dense nonfiction.

Before law school, Tiffany might have called herself a strong reader — after it, she understood what active reading actually means: annotating for structure, questioning the author's choices, and tracking how an argument develops across pages. She teaches these same strategies to students working on comprehension and critical analysis, breaking passages into manageable pieces so the main idea and supporting details become obvious.

Strong readers don't just decode words — they predict, question, and connect ideas across paragraphs in real time. Sabira teaches these active-reading strategies explicitly, whether a student is working through a challenging novel or tackling standardized-test passages, building the kind of comprehension habits that transfer across every subject.

Years of working across French, Spanish, and English literary traditions as a comparative literature major trained Sash to read slowly and strategically — pulling apart syntax, identifying an author's rhetorical moves, and distinguishing main arguments from supporting detail. For students who rush through passages or struggle with comprehension on timed assignments, Sash teaches specific annotation and active-reading techniques that build real retention.

A background in cognitive science means Sugi understands how the brain processes text — why some students lose track of an author's argument mid-paragraph, and what strategies actually improve comprehension and retention. She teaches concrete techniques like annotation mapping and active questioning that turn passive reading into engaged analysis. Her perfect ACT score confirms she practices what she teaches.

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 those kinds of passages, and that same approach carries over to any level: teaching students to track what an author is actually claiming, spot where the reasoning turns, and stop treating reading as passive absorption.

Strong readers don't just decode words — they predict, question, and synthesize as they move through a text. Jessica teaches specific active-reading strategies like annotation, summarization checkpoints, and inference-building that turn passive page-turning into genuine comprehension. Her education training and years working with students ages 8–15 mean she can calibrate those strategies to exactly the right level.

Struggling readers often need something more targeted than "read more" — they need someone who can pinpoint whether the breakdown is in decoding, fluency, vocabulary, or comprehension and then address that specific gap. Liz's Master's in Special Education gave her diagnostic tools and intervention strategies for students with learning disabilities, dyslexia, and ADHD, and she's applied them across a wide range of learners in Boston classrooms. She builds reading stamina and comprehension simultaneously, using texts matched to each student's level and interests.

Developing culturally literate curricula for middle and high schoolers — the kind where students actually want to read the assigned material — taught Elena that engagement isn't a bonus, it's the mechanism through which comprehension improves. Her McGill and Edinburgh training in religious studies means she's spent years pulling meaning from texts that are ancient, dense, and deliberately ambiguous, which translates into a knack for showing students how to wrestle with unfamiliar language and extract an author's argument even when the writing resists easy summary.

Strong readers don't just decode words — they identify an author's argument, evaluate evidence, and make inferences across paragraphs. Reid approaches reading comprehension as a teachable skill set, breaking down strategies for annotating, summarizing, and distinguishing main ideas from supporting details. His experience spans middle school through college-level texts.

Strong reading comprehension isn't just about understanding vocabulary — it's about tracking an author's argument, recognizing tone shifts, and distinguishing main ideas from supporting details. Tom, who scored a 1520 on the SAT, applies the same close-reading techniques from his literary training to help students decode everything from standardized test passages to dense nonfiction.

Before law school, Tiffany might have called herself a strong reader — after it, she understood what active reading actually means: annotating for structure, questioning the author's choices, and tracking how an argument develops across pages. She teaches these same strategies to students working on comprehension and critical analysis, breaking passages into manageable pieces so the main idea and supporting details become obvious.

Strong readers don't just decode words — they predict, question, and connect ideas across paragraphs in real time. Sabira teaches these active-reading strategies explicitly, whether a student is working through a challenging novel or tackling standardized-test passages, building the kind of comprehension habits that transfer across every subject.

Years of working across French, Spanish, and English literary traditions as a comparative literature major trained Sash to read slowly and strategically — pulling apart syntax, identifying an author's rhetorical moves, and distinguishing main arguments from supporting detail. For students who rush through passages or struggle with comprehension on timed assignments, Sash teaches specific annotation and active-reading techniques that build real retention.

A background in cognitive science means Sugi understands how the brain processes text — why some students lose track of an author's argument mid-paragraph, and what strategies actually improve comprehension and retention. She teaches concrete techniques like annotation mapping and active questioning that turn passive reading into engaged analysis. Her perfect ACT score confirms she practices what she teaches.

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 those kinds of passages, and that same approach carries over to any level: teaching students to track what an author is actually claiming, spot where the reasoning turns, and stop treating reading as passive absorption.

Strong readers don't just decode words — they predict, question, and synthesize as they move through a text. Jessica teaches specific active-reading strategies like annotation, summarization checkpoints, and inference-building that turn passive page-turning into genuine comprehension. Her education training and years working with students ages 8–15 mean she can calibrate those strategies to exactly the right level.