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 d...

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 s...

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 m...

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 comprehe...

Close reading is second nature when your degrees are in Comparative Literature and German — Jacob spent years at Columbia and UC Berkeley dissecting texts across languages and literary traditions. He teaches students to identify rhetorical strategies, track thematic development, and annotate with pu...

A semester at Madrid's top-ranked university, reading upper-level history and literature alongside native Spanish speakers, forced Meghan to become the kind of reader who squeezes meaning from every sentence — a habit that stuck long after she came back to Northwestern. Her daily work as a trade jou...

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...

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...

Stronger reading starts with knowing what to do when a passage doesn't make sense on the first try — rereading strategically, annotating for structure, and distinguishing main claims from supporting details. Jennifer, who scored a 1510 on the SAT and is completing her Secondary English MAT at NYU, t...

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...

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 t...

Twenty writing prizes before age eighteen doesn't happen without being a relentless, close reader first — Valerie built her reading skills by pulling apart texts from Greek tragedy to contemporary fiction at the University of Chicago. She teaches students to identify tone, track arguments, and make ...

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 t...

Trained as a historian, Vivian reads critically by habit — identifying an author's argument, weighing evidence, and spotting assumptions. She teaches those same active-reading strategies to students, whether they're working through a dense nonfiction passage or a novel chapter, so they move from sur...

A Government major at Harvard might seem like an unlikely reading tutor, but Richard's coursework lives in dense political theory, Supreme Court opinions, and policy arguments where misreading a single clause changes the entire interpretation. That habit of precise, skeptical reading — plus a year a...