High School Reading Tutor

About the Role

The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform connects thousands of students nationwide with online High School Reading tutors. As a tutor, you'll enjoy flexibility in setting your own schedule, competitive pay, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on students' academic success—all from home.

Benefits

• Earn incrementally higher pay for each session with the same student, up to $40/hour.
• Get paid up to twice per week for tutoring sessions conducted and invoiced.
• 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; you simply invoice for sessions, and we manage payments.

Responsibilities

• Teach critical reading strategies, literary analysis, informational and argumentative text analysis, vocabulary building, and evidence-based reasoning.
• Explain how to analyze author purpose, evaluate argument validity, interpret figurative language, and synthesize multiple texts.
• Prepare high school students for AP courses, SAT/ACT reading sections, and college readiness.
• Guide students through close reading, annotation, and analytical response construction for complex texts.
• Interpret poetry and prose, evaluate rhetorical strategies in nonfiction, identify logical fallacies, and synthesize ideas across multiple 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 challenges, such as comprehending archaic or complex language and analyzing unfamiliar genres.
• Use multiple teaching approaches to meet individual learning needs and styles.

Requirements

• Deep knowledge of high school reading standards and common student challenges.
• Ability to teach close reading, annotation, and analytical response construction for complex high school texts.
• Familiarity with adapting instruction for students at varying levels, from struggling to advanced.
• Strong communication skills and a friendly, engaging teaching style.
• Ability to adapt to different learning styles and student 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.

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