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STUDENT/TEACHER RESOURCE: Strategy Tutor for Online Research

What is Strategy Tutor?

Strategy Tutor is a FREE web-based tool available through the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) designed to support students and teachers doing reading and research on the internet. Strategy Tutor helps students read, research, collect and understand information better and more efficiently. For teachers, Strategy Tutor provides a way to easily create web-based lessons embedded with research-based, highly effective learning strategy and vocabulary supports.

Students can use Strategy Tutor to collect information, get help with websites, information, vocabulary and store notes in a personal, sortable electronic worklog that can be viewed from any computer.

Teachers can use Strategy Tutor to access professional development resources and teacher-created lessons that can be used as is or customized to suit learning needs.  Educators can also create their own strategy-supported lessons while getting help from embedded coaches, as well as watch students grow in research skills by checking their worklogs at any time, from any computer.

Check it out today!

Take the Student Research Project Tour 

Watch the Feature Demos 

Explore Teacher Resources in the Guest Teacher Preview (note: use Firefox as your internet browser to see correct formatting of the site)