Strong reading isn't passive — it requires active strategies like annotation, identifying argument structure, and distinguishing main ideas from supporting detail. Abby teaches these techniques explicitly, whether a student is tackling standardized test passages or dense classroom assignments. Her E...

Between electrical engineering textbooks, neuroscience research papers, and Latin prose, June has spent her time at Brown learning to read across wildly different registers — each demanding its own way of extracting meaning from a page. She teaches students to adapt their approach based on what they...

Strong readers don't just decode words — they track an author's argument, question assumptions, and make inferences from context. Anna's experience across elementary, middle, and high school levels means she can pinpoint exactly where a student's comprehension breaks down, whether it's main idea ide...

Building real reading ability means learning to track an author's argument, anticipate where a passage is headed, and distinguish main claims from supporting details. Serena's history and literature training gave her years of practice doing exactly that across dense, varied texts. She teaches studen...

Leading SAT prep classes for high schoolers taught Kashish that the reading skills students think they have often fall apart under timed pressure — they skim when they should be tracking structure, or fixate on details while missing the author's actual point. Her engineering training at Brown reinfo...

Classics majors at Brown don't just read — they reconstruct meaning from fragments, parse syntax in dead languages, and decode texts where every word choice was deliberate. Alyna brings that same granular attention to English reading sessions, teaching students how to track an argument's structure, ...

Strong reading isn't just decoding words — it's learning to ask what an author is doing and why. Leah teaches students to annotate actively, identify argument structures, and distinguish between a text's claims and its evidence. Her interdisciplinary coursework at Brown keeps her sharp across fictio...

A comparative literature MFA means Kareem has spent years reading texts side by side — French novels against their English translations, critical essays that argue opposite interpretations of the same poem — which trained him to notice how structure, word choice, and context shape meaning differentl...

Struggling readers often aren't missing vocabulary — they're missing strategies for making sense of what a text is doing and why. Devon's English background, capped by a master's degree, trained her to break down reading comprehension into concrete skills: identifying main arguments, tracking how id...

I'm a senior at Brown University in the Program of Liberal Medical Education (PLME). I have over three years of experience working with college application consulting with a specialty in BS/MD programs and experience in tutoring with the SAT, having scored a 2400. I'm excited to work with you and yo...

I am currently a student at Brown University seeking a degree in molecular biophysics. I love studying physics and its many applications in the realms of the life sciences. I have a strange penchant for ultimate frisbee and anything that involves golf (mini golf, frisbee golf, actual golf, etc.). On...

I am a graduate of Brown University, where I earned my B.A. in Literary Arts and Visual Arts, taking courses in a wide array of subjects ranging from contemporary American fiction to ancient Indian classics. My first teaching experience came in college when I had the privilege of creating and teachi...

I am a recent graduate of Brown University with a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Classics and Slavic Studies but an emphasis on theater. A lot of my time at Brown was spent serving on the board of Shakespeare on the Green, Brown's only site-specific student theater group; I even assistant directed a p...

I am currently a neuroscience PhD student at Columbia University. I majored in English and Psychology from Brown University, with a 4.0 and honours in Psychology. Following this, I worked at a lab at UPenn for three years, slowly transitioning to software engineering and computational neuroscience.

I am a student at Brown University, where I am pursuing a Bachelor of Science in psychology. I employ a student-centered approach to tutoring, grounding the session in the student's knowledge of what topics it would be most beneficial to review. I typically begin a session by asking a student if the...