a week ago
Every lesson starts on the minute, ends with a book, and he reads it. That last part is what I could not get on my own.
Marcus T.
Reading
Wendy Novak
Reading and early math, grades 2 to 6
Teaches elementary and middle school
At your table, from Chicago
4.9(204)
From $28/hr
A fifty-minute lesson
First thirty minutes free
Ways to book Wendy Novak
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.
$28 · 50 min
A weekly slot
The same hour every week, held until you give it up. Skip any week.
$28 · 50 min, weekly
A 10-lesson pack
Paid once, used whenever. 10 lessons for the price of 9.
$252 · 10 lessons
In Wendy’s words
Fourteen years in a second-grade classroom on the South Side.
A child who reads badly at eight is usually decoding fine and holding nothing, so I test which of the two it is in the first half hour.
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 Wendy
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 Wendy
Cleared
Photo ID
The person on the call is the person on the profile.
- On file
- Illinois 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 Wendy 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.
Levels
What it comes to a month
Opens at Wendy’s own rate, and a pack is 10 lessons for the price of 9.
Lessons a week
Lesson length
Your tutor’s rate
$28/hr
$272/mo
8 lessons a month, at $34 each — a 60-minute lesson against a rate quoted for 50. A ten-lesson pack takes $34 off that.
Reviews
How Wendy scores, and what the tags keep saying
Only a student who booked and sat the lesson can leave a review. 204 of them have.
3 of 204 shown
4.9
204 reviews
- 5188
- 413
- 32
- 21
- 10
Every one of them left after a lesson with Wendy
2 weeks ago
Reading out loud was the part she dreaded. Four months of Tuesday lessons later she gets through a page without stopping and asks for the next book.
Gregory L.
Reading
4 weeks 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
Book a lesson
Wendy’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.
Wendy Novak
4.9 (204)
- Time
- June 8, 9:00 AM
- Length
- 30 minutes
- Goal
- Catch up
- First thirty minutes
- Free
- Any lesson after that
- $28/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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