Whether the challenge is decoding dense nonfiction or pulling inferences from a novel, reading comprehension improves fastest when students learn to identify an author's structure — cause-and-effect, compare-contrast, claim-and-evidence. Hailey's background in psychology research means she reads cri...

Brett's work editing a peer-reviewed journal requires him to rapidly assess arguments, identify unsupported claims, and evaluate how well evidence connects to a thesis — all core reading comprehension skills. He teaches students to actively annotate and interrogate texts, turning passive reading int...

A Latin American History degree from Duke and a law degree from UNC Chapel Hill means Jean has spent years reading across two very different disciplines — parsing primary sources full of cultural context, then pivoting to legal briefs where every clause carries weight. That range shows up in how she...

A PhD candidate in English Literature at UVA whose dissertation digs into 20th-century American fiction, Anna treats reading as an interpretive skill anyone can sharpen — not a mysterious talent some people have and others don't. Her experience teaching first-year writing seminars and literature cou...

Running Northwestern's writing center meant Juliana spent hours reading student drafts across every discipline — history papers, lab reports, personal narratives — and learning to spot exactly where a writer's argument lost the reader. That cross-genre fluency makes her especially effective at teach...

Eugene's English degree from Emory means he spent years pulling apart novels, essays, and poetry — learning to track how a writer builds meaning across paragraphs, not just within individual sentences. Now deep into biomedical science at Morehouse School of Medicine, he reads across two very differe...

Strong readers don't just decode words — they track arguments, question the author's choices, and connect what they're reading to what they already know. Jordan brings training in literature and international studies to reading sessions, teaching strategies like annotation, inference, and summarizat...

Strong reading comprehension comes down to knowing what to do when a passage stops making sense — how to reread strategically, identify context clues, and separate main ideas from supporting details. Adel teaches these active-reading techniques explicitly, drawing on years of experience working with...

Strong reading comprehension isn't just about understanding individual words — it's about tracking an author's argument, making inferences, and distinguishing main ideas from supporting details. Emily pairs her experience tutoring younger readers on foundational skills with strategies for older stud...

Becoming a stronger reader means learning to do more than decode words on a page — it means tracking an author's argument, recognizing tone shifts, and drawing inferences from context clues. Audrey teaches active reading strategies like annotation and summarization that turn passive reading into gen...