Breaking a dense passage into its core argument, identifying the author's purpose, and distinguishing evidence from opinion — these are learnable skills, not innate talents. Jean tackles reading comprehension by teaching students to annotate actively and ask targeted questions as they read, rather t...

A History of Science degree from Harvard meant Deirdre spent four years reading across disciplines simultaneously — parsing 18th-century scientific treatises one hour, then switching to dense biology and chemistry texts the next, then analyzing government policy papers before dinner. That cross-genr...

An avid reader herself, Talia tackles reading comprehension by teaching students to actively annotate rather than passively scan. She zeroes in on skills like identifying an author's purpose, distinguishing main ideas from supporting details, and making inferences from context clues — building the k...

Struggling readers often aren't lacking intelligence — they're missing a strategy for pulling meaning from dense or unfamiliar texts. Meghan teaches active reading techniques like annotation, context-clue vocabulary building, and identifying an author's argument before getting lost in details. Her P...

Struggling readers often skip the step that matters most: slowing down to ask what a sentence is actually doing. Max teaches active reading strategies — annotation, summarizing in the margins, identifying an author's purpose paragraph by paragraph — that turn passive skimming into genuine comprehens...

Before law school, Amanda spent five years teaching reading — first through AmeriCorps literacy work, then as an ESL instructor — covering everything from basic comprehension strategies to analyzing complex nonfiction passages. She teaches readers to actively annotate, identify an author's purpose, ...

A double background in biology and English literary theory means John approaches reading from two directions — dissecting scientific papers for evidence and unpacking novels for argument and subtext. He teaches students to identify an author's purpose, track how ideas develop across paragraphs, and ...

Biochemistry research papers don't reward skimming — John's lab work at Boston University trained him to extract precise meaning from dense, jargon-heavy text where missing one qualifier changes the entire conclusion. He applies that same discipline to teaching reading comprehension, showing student...

Behavioral neuroscience training at Northeastern gave Allie a specific edge for teaching reading — she understands how the brain processes and retains written information, which means she can explain *why* certain strategies like annotation and re-reading actually work, not just assign them. She app...

Strong readers don't just decode words — they track an author's argument, anticipate counterpoints, and distinguish evidence from opinion. Priyanka builds these active-reading habits by working through passages from a range of genres, showing students how to annotate strategically so comprehension s...