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Christine

Curriculum for Struggling Readers, Writers, ESL, and TOEFL test prep

I became a tutor during my undergraduate studies. During this time, my children were in elementary, middle, and high schools. Over the years, I frequented their schools as a volunteer and realized that the number of students struggling with reading, writing, and English had continuously increased. Initially I went back to school to facilitate these student populations with English, but I began teaching adult English learners through a local tutoring program and expanded my knowledge of learni...

ACT English


ACT Reading


American history


English


ESL/ESOL


geography


government & politics


grammar


literature


phonics


proofreading


reading


social studies


spelling


TOEFL


vocabulary


writing


Sandra G. from Westmont, IL

Chris has helped my son tremendously by boosting his reading level one grade level, giving him great confidence with his reading and vocabulary.


Maureen E. from Downers Grove, IL

Chris helped my 13 year old son with reading. She was very patient and professional. She had a plan for him after our first meeting. He was very comfortable with her and she made it fun for him. I would highly recommend Chris as a tutor.


Lilian C. from Jacksonville, FL

I started my classes with Christine in March. I needed her help with reviewing for the TOEFL iBT exam. She was very helpful and knowledgeable about the test. I started noticing improvements in the way I scored soon after I began classes with her. She did an amazing job helping me with pronunciation, grammar, and other key factors in passing the test. All in all she was very patient and showed me all the tactics I needed in order to pass. Passing the test was like a dream come true for me. I could not have done without her help. I would definitely recommend her if you need help with the TOEFL iBT exam.


Kristen R. from Hinsdale, IL

Ms. Christine has helped me to read much better than I did when I first started working with her last year when I was in 3rd grade. We start our sessions with recognizing sounds beginning with ones that I already know and then she teaches me harder sounds and helps me learn those. This has helped me to get a lot better with my reading speed. I can read at least three levels higher since I started working with Ms. Christine and I am not embarrassed anymore to read out loud in school. At school, I am now usually in the highest level of reading groups in my class. Ms. Christine always lets me choose books that I like and has fun activities and prizes at each session. We also work on art and she helps me make comic strips and drawings from the books we are reading. She is one of the nicest teachers I know and gives surprises when we are done with our sessions. -My 10 year old son I am glad that Ms. Christine is helping me with my reading. I've gotten a lot better since I started working with her last year and now; in 1st grade, I have gotten a ton better. She helps me sound out words. She makes me feel comfortable and we have fun while we are doing our reading practice. We also play games that are for learning and are more interesting than if we were to just spend the whole time sounding out words and I am still learning while we play the games; and it's more fun. She gives really cool prizes that are different from what she gives my brother because she knows that we like different things. -My 7 year old daughter


Sue D. from Downers Grove, IL

Very patient. Chris takes her time and is patient. She takes her time and explains the lessons. She helps me understand the details and breaks the information down so it is understandable.


Joanna S. from Naperville, IL

I have been studying for the TOEFL for years now and have come across many tutors, but none of them really helped me achieve my goal. Not a lot of tutors even know what the TOEFL is personally. Fortunately, I found Christine and she helped me pass. The first time she met with me, she right away knew my weaknesses and helped me fix them. She is the best tutor I came across, she always encouraged me and pushed me, even on days that I had low confidence and wanted to give up. Every meeting with her I enjoyed and felt as I have improved. I strongly recommend her to anyone.


Reji J. from Downers Grove, IL

Christine is a great tutor. She's been very patient with my daughter, she explains things well and make learning fun. She really helped my daughter improved her grades in school as well as her overall understanding of grammar. Thanks Christine for all your help.


Ayesha K. from Waukegan, IL

I am very-happy about all you did for me, excellent job Christine, very patient and hardworking teacher who know everything. I learn a lot from you and that's why I am giving you five star and thank you.


Estela S. from Lombard, IL

Christine is a fantastic tutor. She is patient and knows exactly how students learn and she applies the perfect techniques to help them understand and master the skills. In a matter of a couple weeks, my son is doing great and he looks forward to the tutoring sessions. Christine is wonderful with my sons. I'm thankful to have found her and she is a blessing to working with.


Juan M. from Cicero, IL

Very good teacher. Very patient and helpful. She has a lot of knowledge about TOEFL Test. I think its going to be a good experience for my learning and practicing my English.


Zavonna J. from Riverside, IL

Hi christine, I really enjoyed meeting you, and so did the student. Your tutoring skills seems to be very good. We are excited to be working with you. We look forward to Wednesday's session. Thanks again, Vonna


Joohee K. from Downers Grove, IL

I came to America less than a year ago, and couple of months later, I started my first session with Chris, and studied together exactly 6 months. I took TOEFL last week and got 105, which was way higher than I expected. There is no way I can achieve this score without Chris. She gave several sets of practice tests, kept track on how I was doing on Reading and Listening, and explained what I needed more. Also, she has vast amount of TOEFL questions and topics. During 6 months, I believe we cover all different types of topics, and she explained further information whenever I had a difficulty understanding (from American culture to even some evolution themes as long as those are related to TOEFL). When I took test, I was able to very comfortable since I knew at least something about all of topics. One of things I appreciate the most about Chris is that she focused on individual’s own weaknesses. She caught my specific pronunciation mistakes, and kept working on how I can improve. She recorded sample words and sent to me so I can practice myself. And when I recorded back and sent to her, she was so happy for my effort and willing to give a feedback. During our last couple of sessions, she provided “good words for me to speak", which means easier and clear words for me to pronounce without mistakes, so that I can use them during the test. As far as Writing, this would be most foreigners worst enemy (at least for me), but believe me, as long as you write something and give it to her, you will receive the best feedback. She explained a basic structure of TOEFL writing and trained me how I can increase credibility, logic and all little details including grammar issues. I found myself becoming more comfortable writing essay. She is really patient, passionate and perceptive teacher. I felt stuck and frustrated very often, but she has been really persistent and lightened up the mood. I feel very lucky that I can have Chris as my first teacher and I would wholeheartedly recommend Chris to anyone learning TOEFL!


Oscar R. from Darien, IL

Great teacher, we worked with pronunciation, vocabulary and slang. She taught me many tricks for accent reduction. It was really useful. Thank you very much.


Nazila B. from Houston, TX

She is a very knowledgeable tutor. She has a great personality. She was always very helpful in grammatically editing my writings and giving me helpful suggestions in how to improve them.


FU WEI L. from Los Angeles, CA

Christine is a very patient and excellent tutor. She does her best job to help students, building her own system to improve students' English.


Milana V. from Brooklyn, NY

Christine is truly the best English tutor! When I started my classes with Christine in October my Toefl score was 84 and this was a way lower score than what I needed. We had one class a week focusing on the Toefl speaking part and the proper English pronunciation. Whitin other week days Christine guide me with my homework and helped with my writing. She is not only very knowledgeable tutor, she is a great person too! She is very kind and patient, she always makes time and has a personal approach with working on student's weaknesses. Eventually, only after 2 months of our classes my Toefl score was 103! Almost everyone told me it's impossible to improve my score on 20 points within 2 months, bad I did it with the help of Christine. For the speaking I've received 27! And my English pronunciation is much better now too. I highly recommend Christine as a tutor for Toefl and writing! She will do her best to get you to the result you wish!


Agnes K. from Westmont, IL

Christine is a very nice and open with lots of respect for the student, knowledgeable, She is helping my son, he is in 6th grade, I can tell just after couple lessons that he feels more comfortable with literacy now. The pretty important thing for me is that my son really enjoys tutorial with Christine. I highly recommend Christine to anyone who needs help with the subject.


May S. from Salt Lake City, UT

Christine is an excellent English tutor, she is knowledgeable, patient and extremely friendly and i'm enjoying the lessons with her. She knows what to do and how to start , she took me step by step. Now, I have finished 6 lessons each for 3 hours and i'm sure that i'm improving. I was worried on the beginning if i chose the right tutor or not , because I already took the toefl before, but I didn't get a high score and I wanted to find someone who can help me to find and improve my weakness in Toefl, especially since I have only one month to retake the TOEFL test. I highly recommend Christine as a tutor for Toefl Thanks god that I found her Thank you Christine!