For students who struggle with reading comprehension, the issue is usually not the vocabulary — it's knowing what to pay attention to and what to skim. Sam teaches active reading strategies like annotation, summarizing after each section, and identifying an author's purpose before diving into detail...

Breaking down a dense passage quickly and accurately is something Frank did daily as a research executive, parsing SEC filings, earnings reports, and analyst notes under tight deadlines. He translates that skill into strategies for active reading — identifying main ideas, tracking an author's purpos...

Maureen approaches reading comprehension as an active skill, not a passive one — she teaches students to annotate, predict, and question a text as they move through it. Her dual-language training in Spanish and English education makes her especially effective at building vocabulary and decoding stra...

Strong reading comprehension comes down to knowing what to do when a passage stops making sense — how to re-anchor in context clues, track an author's shifting tone, or untangle a complex sentence structure. Joseph's dual background in Creative Writing and Psychology gives him insight into both how ...

Stella approaches reading comprehension as an active skill, not a passive one — she teaches students to annotate for argument structure, identify an author's purpose within the first paragraph, and distinguish main ideas from supporting details. This is especially useful for students who read slowly...

I am a Finance major at Mercy College in New York, having transferred this Fall from Vanderbilt University in Nashville. My goal to simply help my students achieve the results they desire and to help them set up the habits which will let them reproduce these results in the future.

I am a recent graduate from the University of Pennsylvania. I love working with children and my favorite subject to tutor is Math. I enjoy solving problems and taking my students on a journey to a solution. I have been a tutor for about 10 years and I have worked as both a peer tutor and assistant t...

I'm available to tutor biology, chemistry, physics, math from Algebra up through AP Calculus, SAT test prep, and French. I've been tutoring students in science and math for 7 years. I also spent 8 months working and studying in France, and have tutored high school and adult students in French. When ...

I'm a recent Stanford graduate (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), and have been working at a major Management Consulting firm for a few years now. I personally scored a 2360 (out of 2400) on the SAT and 35 on the ACT and was successful in gaining admission to several top universities. I'...

I am a licensed physician from Florida who is currently changing careers. I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 and have extensive tutoring and editing experience. While a student, I became a certified writing tutor through the Critical Writing Department. Since I completed my writ...