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...

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...

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...

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...

Chelsey reads for a living — literally. As a script reader for an Off-Broadway theatre company, she evaluates texts daily for coherence, subtext, and storytelling craft. That professional habit translates directly into teaching students how to identify main ideas, make inferences, and track an autho...

Growing up as the oldest of five meant Nathan was explaining stories, breaking down passages, and answering "but what does that mean?" long before he started tutoring — and his dual focus on History and Neuroscience at Rice keeps him reading across genres that demand very different comprehension str...

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...

Strong reading comprehension comes down to a few trainable skills: identifying the main argument, distinguishing evidence from opinion, and making inferences the author implies but never states outright. Allan teaches students to annotate actively — marking tone shifts, key claims, and unfamiliar vo...

Strong readers don't just decode words — they track how an author builds an argument or shifts tone across paragraphs. Nick's theatre training at Northwestern required breaking down complex texts nightly, from dense dramatic criticism to Shakespeare's verse, and he applies those same close-reading t...

A University of Chicago English degree and theatre training taught Ruth to read texts on two levels at once — analyzing what's on the page while picking up on tone, subtext, and the choices a writer made to shape a reader's experience. She brings that dual awareness into sessions, teaching students ...