
Email: tawebb1265@gmail.com
Phone: 650-430-8087 (text or call)

English Tutoring: SAT & ACT,
AP Lit & Lang, Reading & Writing
Reading, Writing, and Test Prep with an Experienced Teacher
I'm a licensed English teacher with 5 years of experience in the high school classroom, including AP Literature. I help students of all ages improve their essay writing, reading comprehension, and test-taking skills.
Tutoring Specialties

Essay Help
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Personal Statement
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College essays
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High school essays
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Applications

Reading and Writing
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Essay writing
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Reading comprehension
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Grammar
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Writing skills
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Creative writing

AP Exam Prep
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AP Literature
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AP Language
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Essay and multiple choice preparation

SAT and ACT Prep
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ACT Reading and English
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SAT Reading
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SAT Writing and Language
College Essay and Personal Statement Samples
The following college essays, written by my students, have led to acceptance into universities including Brown, UCLA, UCSF, Duke, University of Oregon, and more.
What Makes My Virtual Tutoring Unique?
Skill Practice
In every session, we practice specific writing skills that will improve your writing ability in class, in college, and all other forms of communication. These skills align with common core standards.
Mini-lesson skills include:
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Structuring essay and paragraph
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Using the 5 senses when telling a story
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Writing complex sentences
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Utilizing quotations
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Writing a strong thesis statement
Learning Strategies
Depending on your goals and learning style, we use the following strategies to improve your skills:
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Modeling: We look at expert samples of our writing task, and I write with you, live, for you to see how a writer build and develops a draft.
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Graphic organizers: Learning tools that help you visualize the skills we practice.
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Sentence frames
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Brainstorming activities: Tables, bullet point lists, drawing and sketches, notebook writes, and more to generate the best ideas and plan out writing.
Learning Tools
Check out examples of the learning tools we use during tutoring sessions, to do everything from brainstorming ideas, to organizing thoughts, to planning out a writing task, to analyzing what we read.