a week ago
He was a full grade behind on the fall benchmark and tested back on level in March. The note after each lesson said exactly what to practise that week.
Danielle W.
Reading
Ellen Mercer
Reading and study habits, grades 2 to 8
Teaches elementary and middle school
At your table, from Philadelphia
4.9(188)
From $38/hr
A fifty-minute lesson
First thirty minutes free
Ways to book Ellen Mercer
A first lesson
The first half hour of any lesson is free. No card to hold it.
Free · 30 min
One lesson
Booked around the week. Nothing repeats, nothing renews.
$38 · 50 min
A weekly slot
The same hour every week, held until you give it up. Skip any week.
$38 · 50 min, weekly
A 10-lesson pack
Paid once, used whenever. 10 lessons for the price of 9.
$342 · 10 lessons
In Ellen’s words
Twenty-two years as a reading specialist in Philadelphia public schools.
Parents get a note after every lesson saying what we read and what to practise before the next one.
10min
Bring last week's quiz, the homework that stalled or the syllabus. It gets read before anything else.
15min
You pick a question out of that pile and the two of you finish it together, out loud.
5min
A plan with the number of lessons written down, and no card asked for to hear it.
Who checked Ellen
Five checks, and the file says what each one found
About 11 applicants in a hundred clear all five. Open any of them to read what was actually on the paperwork.
Run on Ellen
Cleared
Photo ID
The person on the call is the person on the profile.
- On file
- Pennsylvania license, name matched
- Run by
- Persona, at application
- Method
- We match a government photo ID to the legal name on file.
Subjects and levels
What Ellen teaches, and what a month of it costs
Every rate on Saal is the tutor’s own and the site adds nothing to it. Move the sliders to the shape your week actually has.
Subjects
- ReadingDecoding, fluency and comprehension for grades 2 through 8.
- English & WritingEssays, close reading and a college application that sounds human.
- ISEE & SSATVocabulary, quantitative comparison and the essay readers keep.
Levels
What it comes to a month
Opens at Ellen’s own rate, and a pack is 10 lessons for the price of 9.
Lessons a week
Lesson length
Your tutor’s rate
$38/hr
$368/mo
8 lessons a month, at $46 each — a 60-minute lesson against a rate quoted for 50. A ten-lesson pack takes $46 off that.
Reviews
How Ellen scores, and what the tags keep saying
Only a student who booked and sat the lesson can leave a review. 188 of them have.
3 of 188 shown
4.9
188 reviews
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- 412
- 32
- 21
- 10
Every one of them left after a lesson with Ellen
2 weeks ago
My daughter shuts the book the moment she misses a word. Nobody made a thing of it here, and she has stopped hiding the ones she cannot read.
Hannah K.
Reading
4 weeks ago
The words were never the wall, the questions after them were. Two months of finding the answer inside the paragraph and she moved two levels.
Amara O.
Reading
Book a lesson
Ellen’s open hours for the next three weeks
Pick a slot, say what the lesson is for, and confirm. The first thirty minutes cost nothing and no card is asked for to hold them.
Ellen Mercer
4.9 (188)
- Time
- June 8, 9:00 AM
- Length
- 30 minutes
- Goal
- Catch up
- First thirty minutes
- Free
- Any lesson after that
- $38/hr
- Charged today
- $0
- No card is asked for until you book a paid lesson.
- A paid lesson is refundable for 24 hours after it ends.
June 8 – 14
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Brooklyn· Online or in person
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