Struggling readers often need someone who can pinpoint whether the issue is decoding, fluency, vocabulary, or comprehension — and Ivan's dual certification in general and special education makes him unusually precise at that diagnosis. He's spent a decade adapting reading instruction for students at wildly different levels within the same classroom, building strategies around each learner's specific gaps.

Whether a student struggles with reading comprehension on standardized tests or with analyzing assigned texts for class, Laura digs into the specific skill that's causing the breakdown — inference, main idea identification, or connecting evidence to conclusions. Her SAT Reading experience and anthropology coursework both demanded close, critical reading under pressure.

Strong readers don't just decode words — they track an author's argument, notice shifts in tone, and make inferences from context. Zarrin approaches reading comprehension by teaching students to annotate actively and ask questions of the text as they go, building the kind of critical engagement that transfers across subjects. Her background spans both STEM and humanities, so she can adapt passages and strategies to whatever a student finds most engaging.

Strong reading comprehension starts with knowing how to ask the right questions of a text — what's the author's purpose, what evidence supports a claim, where does the argument shift. Joshua spent years as a teaching assistant at both the middle school and high school level, using scaffolded questioning to move students from surface-level summary to genuine analytical reading. His English background means he can adapt that approach to fiction, nonfiction, and everything in between.

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