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...

Colin's years teaching elementary and middle school gave him deep experience with the specific moments where reading development stalls — decoding multisyllabic words, making inferences, or tracking a main idea across longer passages. As a certified special educator, he identifies the root of a comp...

Stronger reading starts with asking better questions about a text — not just "what happened" but "why did the author choose this word, this detail, this order." Rachel's theater background trained her to dissect texts at the sentence level, a skill she now applies to building comprehension, inferenc...

Columbia's nonfiction MFA program meant Sarah spent two years dissecting how essays, memoirs, and longform journalism are built — the structural choices writers make to guide a reader from one idea to the next. That writer's lens gives her a different way of teaching comprehension: she shows student...

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...

After majoring in English at Dartmouth and spending a year teaching language skills in France, Ben developed a sharp sense for how different readers get stuck — whether it's decoding unfamiliar vocabulary in context, tracking an author's argument across paragraphs, or distinguishing main ideas from ...

Years of script work at Brown's MFA conservatory trained Ted to read like an actor — dissecting a passage for intent, subtext, and the specific weight each word carries in context. He brings that same granular attention to reading sessions, teaching students to track what's happening beneath the sur...

Breaking down a reading passage isn't just about finding the main idea — it's about understanding how an author uses structure, tone, and evidence to build meaning. Rachel's literature and publishing background gives her a sharp sense of how texts work at every level, from vocabulary in context to i...

Breaking down a dense passage starts with knowing what to look for — main argument, author's purpose, how evidence functions within a paragraph. Tim's literature and philosophy background means he can teach students to read actively and critically, pulling apart texts the way a writer would rather t...

Becoming a stronger reader means moving beyond decoding words on a page to actively questioning what an author is doing and why. Philip teaches strategies like annotation, summarization, and inference-building that give students concrete tools for tackling both fiction and nonfiction. His interdisci...