High School Reading Tutor

About the role

The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform connects you with thousands of students seeking online High School Reading tutors nationwide. Enjoy the flexibility to set your own schedule, earn competitive rates, and make a meaningful impact on students' academic success—all from home.

Benefits

• Earn incrementally higher pay for each session with the same student, reaching up to $40/hour.
• Get paid up to twice per week for fast and reliable compensation.
• Set your own hours and tutor as much as you'd like.
• Tutor remotely using our purpose-built Live Learning Platform—no commuting required.
• Get matched with students best-suited to your teaching style and expertise.
• AI-powered Tutor Copilot provides real-time instructional support, lesson generation, and engagement features to save prep time.
• We handle logistics—just invoice for sessions, and we take care of payments.

Responsibilities

• Teach critical reading strategies, literary analysis, and informational/argumentative text analysis.
• Explain how to analyze author purpose, evaluate argument validity, interpret figurative language, and synthesize multiple texts.
• Prepare students for AP courses, SAT/ACT reading sections, and college readiness.
• Guide students through close reading, annotation, and analytical response construction for complex texts.
• Help students interpret poetry and prose, evaluate rhetorical strategies in nonfiction, identify logical fallacies, and synthesize ideas across sources.
• Develop independent critical reading skills and connect reading analysis to persuasive writing and informed citizenship.
• Adapt instruction using diverse text selections, scaffolded annotation guides, and discussion-based analysis.
• Identify and address common student struggles with comprehension, archaic language, unfamiliar genres, and sustained focus.
• Use multiple teaching approaches to meet individual learning needs and styles.

Requirements

• Deep knowledge of high school reading standards and challenges (e.g., text complexity, archaic language, genre unfamiliarity).
• Ability to teach close reading, annotation, and analytical response construction for complex texts.
• Familiarity with adapting instruction for diverse learners, from struggling to advanced students.
• Strong communication skills and an engaging, adaptive teaching style.
• Experience explaining material using multiple approaches to address different learning needs.

Ways to connect with students

• 1-on-1 Online Tutoring: Provide personalized instruction to individual students.
• Instant Tutoring: Accept on-demand tutoring requests whenever you're available.

About Varsity Tutors

Our mission is to transform learning through advanced technology, AI, and learning science to create personalized experiences. Through 1-on-1 online tutoring, students receive customized instruction tailored to their goals. Our platform matches students with the right tutors to foster better outcomes and a passion for learning.

Note: Varsity Tutors does not contract in Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, or Puerto Rico.