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I am a student at Columbia University studying History & American Studies! While in high school, I completed the International Baccalaureate program and took various Advanced Placement courses. At Columbia I have worked with various public defense organizations as an advocate, investigator, and research assistant. I also volunteer as a tutor on campus, in the New York community, and even on Rikers Island. I am passionate about helping students from all backgrounds develop their writing, reading, presentation, and test-taking skills that will translate to all aspects of their education!

Struggling readers often aren't missing intelligence — they're missing strategies for breaking a text apart. Isabel teaches concrete techniques like annotation, context-clue vocabulary building, and identifying an author's purpose so that students become active readers instead of passive ones. Her English Composition background means she understands how texts are constructed, which makes her especially effective at teaching others how to decode them.
Growing up surrounded by agriculture texts — crop manuals, livestock journals, extension bulletins — taught Amber that reading isn't one skill but a dozen, shifting depending on whether you're absorbing a narrative or extracting instructions from a technical document. She brings that practical range to her sessions, walking students through how to adjust their approach based on what they're actually reading, from fiction passages to informational texts. Rated 5.0 by students.
I am a 4th year psychology PhD student and have taught introductory psychology and abnormal psychology courses at the college level. I am able to tutor in a range of subjects including Statistics, English, Science, Social Sciences (psychology is my favorite), and Math. I have experience working with students of all ages, including students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia. I am also able to help with test prep for the SAT or GRE.
I am an undergrad student at Agnes Scott college, currently pursuing bachelors in neuroscience and biomedical engineering. I grew up in a STEM focused household, and though I've always been inclined in those fields I've also always loved making art in whatever way I can.
I am a graduate of the University of Oklahoma. I earned my Bachelors degree in Letters with a focus on the Classics, and am in the midst of applying for graduate programs in the field of Comparative Mythology. While attending university, I was continually leading study groups and providing writing and editing help for my peers. My education before college was rather unorthodox, in that I was homeschooled by my mother, who brought in students who needed more individual attention than was being provided for them in public or even private school. Having been educated in such an atmosphere through grade 12 has blessed me both with the experience of having watched quality tutoring occur every day and of tutoring others from a very young age. I have always found immense joy in tutoring. Helping others learn is a wildly rewarding pursuit. I believe that tutoring is essential because every individual learns differently - every brain moves in intricate and astounding ways - and trying to educate every student in the same manner can end in frustration and disappointment. My favorite subjects to tutor are Writing, Essay Editing, Reading Comprehension, and English, because I find these are the subjects which are easiest for me to connect with emotionally, and thereby elicit a response from a student and get them more interested and involved.
I am a graduate of Pepperdine University and am currently pursuing a PhD in International Relations at UNT. I have always had a passion for learning and knowledge, and I hope to impart that passion to others through tutoring. My academic interests include languages, politics, and literature. In my free time I enjoy to read, watch films, and travel when I can. I spent a year studying in Lausanne, Switzerland.
I am the only person who has earned a doctoral degree in the Bassoon. When I began teaching in schools, my first job was teaching Elementary Music and Gifted and Talented classes. I then taught fifth grade Social Studies and moved on to high school Biology and middle school Science. I have also been a professor of music at Oklahoma City University for over ten years. I'm certified to teach Math, Science, and Music, but I also have a passion for History, World Cultures, Study Skills, and Writing. I have been teaching private bassoon and oboe lessons for 20 years and feel very blessed to be both a professional performer and educator. My goal as a teacher is to empower my students to become lifelong learners and lovers of knowledge. I love to travel, and have been to all of the lower 48 states, as well as many different countries. I love sports, jogging, horseback riding, and cooking. I find it especially enjoyable to bring my adventures back to my students and encourage them to go make their own throughout their lives!
I am very active. I love working out and playing sports. Throughout high school, I played basketball, ran cross country, and rode horses. Now, I lift weights and do personal research in nutrition and athletics. I hope to one day combine my love of medicine and overall health in order to help my patients one day.
I'm another life long learner. I strive to assist learning in social encounters. Growing up with a family of school teachers and public school professional development figures, I have developed an interest in tutoring, research, and writing. After tutoring for about two years with Upward Bound and years of part time work with the educational development organization ALCA, I am now researching and writing a book on online political discourse, and wish to work improving my ability to help others.
I am not working with students, you could find me: in the kitchen, cooking foods from around the world (with names I can hardly pronounce); in front of the computer, playing video games and listening to music; or outside, hiking/gardening/swimming/reading on a hammock (weather permitting!) I love learning new languages and studying new subjects.
I am currently a rising Junior at the University of Oklahoma, majoring in Biology on a Pre-medical track. I am on a full academic scholarship and an active participant in the honors program. My enjoyment of learning for its own sake has been a main driver of my academic success. I approach life with a smiling, energetic attitude, a mentality that carries over to my tutoring. Outside of school I love being active and outside as much as possible. My best days are filled with music, friends, and new experiences.
Strong reading isn't just decoding words on a page — it's knowing how to identify a main idea, make inferences, and connect what the text says to what it means. Natalie tailors her approach to the reader's level, whether that's building fluency with a second-grader or tackling complex nonfiction with a high schooler. Her own daily reading load as a Pre-Law student keeps her sharp on comprehension strategies she can pass along.
I am currently pursuing a Bach. in Aerospace Engineering. I have always been very good at math in fact there were some grades where I feel I was teaching myself.I have never tutored for money before. This is not to suggest that I have never tutored because I have tutored Algebra 1, AP Calculus AB, AP Physics 1 , and ACT. If you are interested I hope we can work something out!
I'm Joe! I'm a first year economics and international area studies major at the University of Oklahoma. My favorite show is Rick and Morty, and my favorite book is The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien.
I am a graduate of the University of Oklahoma. I received by Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. I have mostly tutored privately on my own time in one on one sessions. I mostly enjoy helping others with math and science related problems. Education is necessary to improve life and I want others to realize this. In my spare time I enjoy thought provoking literature.
I am able to edit and help in the writing process of essays.
I am a senior at the University of Oklahoma studying industrial & systems engineering. While I love my major, I'm also involved on campus outside of the engineering department, serving as an event chair under Campus Activities Council, working with orientation & transfer programs, and volunteering as a mentor for middle school students at Loveworks Leadership!
I am not studying or reading for personal enjoyment, I am often either writing or sharing rich conversation. Having specialized in philosophy of art, I have a passion for music and visual art and am enlivened by the artistic culture of Oklahoma City.
Three years of classroom reading intervention taught Molly exactly where comprehension tends to stall — whether a student struggles with making inferences, tracking a main idea across paragraphs, or connecting what they read to prior knowledge. She's Illinois-certified K-9 and holds degrees from Columbia and Northwestern, so she brings both research-backed strategies and real classroom instincts to every reading session.
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 teaches comprehension: breaking a passage into its moving parts, identifying what the author is actually claiming versus what's just background, and building the kind of deliberate reading habits that transfer from literature excerpts to standardized test passages.
Struggling readers often skip over context clues and lose track of an author's argument across paragraphs — two habits Courtney specifically targets. She uses annotation strategies borrowed from how scientists read research papers: marking claims, identifying evidence, and summarizing sections in the margins. This active-reading approach builds comprehension skills that pay off in every subject, not just English.
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 PhD work in American Literature at UConn means she's spent thousands of hours doing exactly this kind of close, purposeful reading.
Narrative Medicine — Camille's graduate focus at Columbia — is essentially the study of how reading shapes understanding, training clinicians to pick up on structure, voice, and meaning in everything from patient histories to literary essays. That interdisciplinary lens, layered on top of an African and African American Studies degree from Duke, means she teaches reading as an act of interpretation: identifying what an author emphasizes, what they leave out, and how the two work together to build meaning. Rated 5.0 by students.
Engineering textbooks don't reward skimming — Corrina's mechanical engineering training at the undergraduate level meant parsing technical passages where missing one conditional clause could derail an entire problem set. She brings that same precision to reading sessions, teaching students how to slow down, identify what a sentence is actually saying, and build meaning across a full passage instead of grabbing at isolated details. Rated 4.7 by students.
Teaching 1st through 3rd graders to read — phonics, fluency, comprehension, all at once — was Victoria's daily work for three years in the classroom. That experience gave her a toolkit for every stage of reading development, whether a child is sounding out CVC words or learning to make inferences from a chapter book.
Strong readers don't just decode words — they track how an author's argument or narrative develops across paragraphs and chapters. Vansh teaches active reading strategies like annotation, summarization checkpoints, and inference-building that turn passive page-turning into genuine comprehension. These same skills carried him to a 1550 SAT, where reading speed and accuracy matter enormously.
Struggling readers often need something more targeted than "read more" — they need someone who can pinpoint whether the breakdown is in decoding, fluency, vocabulary, or comprehension and then address that specific gap. Liz's Master's in Special Education gave her diagnostic tools and intervention strategies for students with learning disabilities, dyslexia, and ADHD, and she's applied them across a wide range of learners in Boston classrooms. She builds reading stamina and comprehension simultaneously, using texts matched to each student's level and interests.
Getting through a dense passage isn't about reading every word at the same speed — it's about knowing when to skim, when to slow down, and how to track an author's argument across paragraphs. Hannah, who holds degrees in both History and English alongside an MFA in Creative Writing, teaches active reading strategies that translate directly to stronger comprehension and annotation skills.
History and political science majors read differently — they learn to weigh competing accounts, spot bias in a source before finishing the first paragraph, and figure out what an author is arguing even when the thesis isn't spelled out. Rachel brings that analytical reading habit to her sessions, teaching students to ask questions of a text instead of passively absorbing it. Her 1510 SAT and 34 ACT point to the kind of disciplined, strategic reading she passes along.
Developing culturally literate curricula for middle and high schoolers — the kind where students actually want to read the assigned material — taught Elena that engagement isn't a bonus, it's the mechanism through which comprehension improves. Her McGill and Edinburgh training in religious studies means she's spent years pulling meaning from texts that are ancient, dense, and deliberately ambiguous, which translates into a knack for showing students how to wrestle with unfamiliar language and extract an author's argument even when the writing resists easy summary.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Reading tutoring focuses on building comprehension skills, analyzing texts, and developing critical thinking abilities. Tutors work with students on understanding main ideas, making inferences, identifying author's purpose, and engaging with different types of literature—from novels and poetry to informational texts. Personalized 1-on-1 instruction allows tutors to target specific challenges, whether that's decoding fluency, vocabulary development, or deeper literary analysis.
Many students struggle with reading comprehension, difficulty retaining information from texts, or analyzing what they read beyond surface-level understanding. Others may have slower reading fluency, limited vocabulary, or trouble connecting themes across different works. Personalized tutoring addresses these gaps by breaking down complex texts, using targeted strategies like annotation and discussion, and building confidence through regular practice with immediate feedback.
The first session is typically an assessment where a tutor gets to know the student's current reading level, strengths, and specific challenges. They might discuss recent reading assignments, ask about favorite books, or work through a passage together to understand comprehension patterns. This helps the tutor create a personalized plan that targets the student's goals, whether that's improving grades, preparing for standardized tests, or building reading confidence.
Varsity Tutors connects you with expert tutors who understand Oklahoma's reading standards and the specific curricula used across Tulsa's 14 school districts. Whether your student is working on close reading skills, literary analysis for English class, or preparing for state assessments, tutors can align instruction with classroom expectations and help reinforce what's being taught in school.
Literary analysis requires understanding not just what happens in a text, but why the author made specific choices. Tutors help students develop thesis statements, support claims with evidence from the text, and structure essays that demonstrate critical thinking. With personalized feedback on drafts and guided practice analyzing different genres, students learn to move beyond plot summary to deeper interpretation.
Yes. Tutors can help students develop test-specific strategies like time management, identifying main ideas quickly, and answering inference questions accurately. Whether preparing for the ACT reading section, SAT evidence-based reading, or Oklahoma state assessments, personalized tutoring focuses on the skills and question types students will encounter, building both competence and test-taking confidence.
Reading fluency is the ability to read smoothly and at an appropriate pace, while comprehension is understanding what you've read. Both matter—struggling with fluency can drain mental energy needed for comprehension, and fast reading without understanding misses the point entirely. Tutors assess both skills and use strategies like guided reading, repeated reading of meaningful texts, and discussion to improve fluency and deepen comprehension together.
Rather than memorizing word lists in isolation, tutors help students encounter vocabulary in context—through the books and articles they're actually reading. They teach strategies like using context clues, understanding word roots and prefixes, and making connections between new words and existing knowledge. This approach leads to deeper retention and helps students apply new vocabulary naturally in their own reading and writing.
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