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reading is our secret power

Open your world

open your minds, open your knowledge with read

Open your mind

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” — Joyce Carol Oates

searching a loyal friend?

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway

we are not alone here

“We read to know that we are not alone.” — C.S. Lewis

Minggu, 09 Juni 2013

free speed reading



Free Speed Reading Tips

By irisreading.com




How fast do you read???? How much time do you need to read??? Do you know some techniques to read???

Talking about reading, there are many things that we should know such as ways of reading, how to remember the information that we’ve read, how to be focus, or maybe how to read faster but you still get the information. So this time I would like to tell about Free Speed Reading Tips channel which is provided by irisreading.com. (Irisreading.com is a website which provides speed reading training. You can visit this site for more information).
In this channel you will find free speed reading tips such ways of reading or some techniques in reading and also workshop (some courses about speed-reading).


Here some tips in this channel:
-How to Read Textbooks and Technical Material
- 15 Ways to Focus through Boring Reading Material
-Increase Your Memory by Using Your 5 Senses
-Remember everything you read
-Grab a group of words at a time

Watch it carefully so then you can improve your reading skills! J


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Sabtu, 08 Juni 2013

read theory



READ THEORY

Do you remember my previous posting, about englishforeveryone.com???
This site also created by englishforeveryone.com team. If englishforeveryone.com is about English worksheets and some English material, this website is about reading and thinking critically. So then you can improve your reading comprehension and also your critical thinking.

What does this website have?
This website is for all level, and all people in all over the world can use this site. They provide reading test and quizzes. Not only that but also you can have discussion in forum, articles about read theory, and contest.

How to use this site??
First, you need to register or sign up, but you can also use your facebook account to sign in. Second, you must do their placement questions, so then they know what level you are. After that you can go on to questions (reading comprehension) which are available.

What makes this site interesting??
Beside you can improve your reading comprehension and critical thinking, you can also improve your writing skill because this site also held a contest such as writing poem or maybe story. But remember they will give the due time.
That will be great right!!  because while studying you can express you thought, feeling or your writing skills .. J

Let’s visit readtheory.org

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book should be free


Book Should Be Free


Hi hi ! Good morning everybody !

What kind of books that you like to read?? Fiction, history, humor or maybe adventure??? Do you have money to buy it?? If not, just visit www.bookshouldbefree.com . In this site you will find about 3000 audio books +ebooks which are free to download. There are about 100 genres in this site such as languages, adventure, children, history, fantasy, literature, fiction, poetry, romance, religion, teen, mystery and many others. The books not only in English but there are also the others book in different language such as German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, and many others. This site also provides the other link about the books and then you can also do reviewing after listening or reading to the story.
By using this site you can learn English by listening to the story so then you can enrich your vocabulary and improve you pronunciation also learn to be focus to get the information. J


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Jumat, 07 Juni 2013

Good Reading Articles and Rich Test Preparation

Good Materials in Easy Way to Learn
by Irma Fitriani



Fullspate.net is a website that provides rich materials about ECPE materials, reading materials, book suggestion, test preparation and many others.

Fullspate is founded by a man with a PhD who has rich knowledge  in  the EFL coursebooks,  and finally he decided to share his ability with the English students via website. 

This web provides the users with reach reading materials in a high standard such for the upper intermediate and advance learner in the simple way, so it is easier for the to get the reading materials without feel confusing about the location.  There are more that dozens of the article that rich of new vocabulary and information.
                                                     

some of the reading materials

In test preparation this web provides the user with a lot of kind of test and some links where they can find good kind of those test. There are also many kind of the test like grammar test example, speaking test, vocabulary test, reading test, and many others.
Not only providing test, this web also give some tips and test example that could help you to find succeed in your future test.
In book suggestion, there are some book reviews that can be your guide to finding an interesting book as your reading materials.

If you kind of a serious learner who are really want to improve your reading skill, this web is a good choice for you. For those who like learning in simple with high quality of resources, you can directly try this website.

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Improve Your Reading skill and Carier Permormance

5 Minutes for Tips and Techniques
by Irma Fitriani



This website help people to lean in practical way with providing straightforward skills based on what you want to extend your skill and work performance. Most of the tips is about how to improve your career performance, but it also provides you with many tips gain succeed in your study. 
This web believe with these tips and your eagerness in your career it will help you to become exceptionally effective, be a great manager and leader, be more successful in your career – and even become happier at work.
Why is it call "mind tools," because that's what they are. Web founders believe that anyone can learn and use these simple processes and techniques to make the very most of their careers.

Established in 1996, this site helps more than 15,000,000 people each year, as well as providing cloud-based training solutions to companies and government agencies worldwide.
This web is has a great team that consist from four continents.They comprise career experts, business people, coaches, writers, editors, and journalists – all of whom are focused on helping you make the very most of your career.

There are many tips and techniques that provides by this web in generally. Specifically, in reading there also tips to improve your reading ability and your speed reading. It just spends 5 minutes to get the tips and you'll get a boost reading skill.

Not only reading, you'll also find the other learning tips that surely useful for your study process, in Learning skills.This section of Mind Tools teaches more than 30 skills that will help you do these things. The articles on note-taking give you powerful tools for recording information, concisely and effectively. The tips consists of  :
Personal Learning Skills
It concern about how you can improve your personal ability, so you can become more skillful and productive.
Understanding How People Learn
It concern about relation between people relation and tips how to create a good teamwork environment.
Developing a Learning Environment
It concern about some articles that made by the experts about many kinds of learning environment that will expand your knowledge.
Reading More Effectively
This is my favorite part, because it give you tips with a clear explanation  so you can easily understand and implement the reading tips that are provided.
Memory Techniques
It concern about how you can keep your memory well and manage it better, so it will be more effective and help you more than you have thought before.
This web also adored me with others page that created by them, such as book page where you can buy motivation, career improvement, learning skills, and still many others (also provided in free MP3  for the web members) and articles based on research that has been done by many experts in their field, moreover it also provide you with forum to sharing ideas with many people.

So, what are you waiting for? Visit this web, and start having the advantages!

IRMA FITRIANI/ F12112052

Rabu, 05 Juni 2013

ereadingworksheets.com




ereadingworksheets.com

Hi! Start reading, let your world bright!!


One more website which provides reading worksheets that learners can get for free, that is ereadingworksheet.com. This site is created by Mr. Donzo Mortini. Even actually most of assignments in this site is for 6 to 12 grades but it is possible to make few modifications to make it available for any grades. There are six categories worksheets in this site; reading worksheets, figurative language, genre, language arts, point of view, text structure, and writing. Each category is divided into some part, for example: reading worksheets has nine theme; author’s purpose, characterization worksheets, context clues worksheets, fact and opinion worksheets, main idea worksheets, irony worksheets, theme worksheets, story structure worksheets, and reading comprehension worksheets. Every theme is divided into some part such as exercises, activities and lesson, so that, this website not only have exercises but also some activities and lessons that can help teachers and students for learning.
Learners can get the worksheets in form PDF, RTF (Microsoft office word), htm (just for previewing), power point (for the lesson).
This site also provides ‘online read test’ that learner can do the assigment by online and put on their website, blog, or web page. for example : author's purposes *

*click on words to see the example


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Senin, 03 Juni 2013

englishforeveryone.org

englishforeveryone.org
                                    by Read Theory Team

I love EnglishJ!! How about you?

This time I would like to inform you about where you can find a website which provides printable English worksheets for free, englishforeveryone.org. This site has thirty-eight topics about English material such as reading comprehension, verb tenses, analogies, part of speech, paragraph correction, spelling, phonics, writing practice and so on. Every topic divides in different categories or levels. For instance, reading comprehension worksheets categorize into six grades and each grade has eight passages, so there are forty-eight exercises in this topic.   
This site has four editors and writers, they are Tanner, Anne, Susan, Markus and Jason (let’s read their profile). One of them is the founder, Tanner. He is also the creator of Read Theory website. His purpose created those sites is for improving critical thinking among students to be better student.
Let’s do it!!!! Now or Never!!! Gung ho!!! J
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autoenglish.org

BOB WILSON'S autoenglish.org



Hi guys?? How wudja ??? J



In this posting, I would like to introduce you an interesting website which provides English training such as grammar, writing, listening and vocabulary, first certificate in English (FCE) which consist of four exams (reading, speaking, use of English and writing part 1), business English and online English courses which divides in four level (beginners, elementary, pre-intermediate and intermediate), there are also the other courses such as business email and pronunciation. Not only that this site also provides games in some level and e-book which can download by learner freely. Many exercises and resources that learners can access for free are available in here. Then, most of lesson is equipped with video or audio.




 I was confused how to describe this site because there are a lot of things in here that can improve your ability in English. This site was created by an English teacher, Bob Wilson. He has finished his Spanish master degree, so that’s why in this site you can find Spanish training, such as pronunciation.
link : autoenglish.org
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Kamis, 30 Mei 2013

Free Reading Test


http://www.freereadingtest.com/

Free Reading Test ( is provided by Ace Reader (educational software which is produced by StepWare®).  This site contains with some exercises to examine your reading skills; reading speed and comprehension.
  There are thirteen level in this site which are categorized into three level; child, adult, and advanced. Level one to four is child level, level five to nine is adult level and level ten to thirteen is advanced level.  Each level has some categories which contain with text and test. 


This site will count your speed in reading the text, after that you will get some questions that you should answer and in the end of test they will show you the result or score.

Here some step to use this site:

1. Click on “Take Reading Test” button.
2. Choose your level and then choose the    category.
3. Click “start/stop” to begin you reading and click “start/stop” immediately if you finish reading the text.
4. After answering all of the questions, click “show the result” button, than you will know your score.






Download free trial of AceReader :  http://www.acereader.com/personal/free-trial.html?


TRY NOW !!! :) GUNG HO .. :D


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Selasa, 28 Mei 2013

More Than Read

Motivation, Book References, Book Community, Quotes
by Irma Fitriani



Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. The mission is to help people find and share books they love. Good-reads launched in January 2007. This web provides more than 550 million of books, more than 230 book reviews, and 17 million members. 

This web is found by Otis Chandler. He is a software engineer at heart and loves tinkering on the site to make it the best product possible. Before founding Goodreads, Otis was a Software Engineer and Product Manager at Tickle.com. Monster Worldwide, the leading purveyor of online jobs, purchased the company in 2004. Otis graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Along with a passion for building websites, he’s also a voracious reader.

Otis is the Founder & CEO of Goodreads. He is a software engineer at heart and loves tinkering on the site to make it the best product possible. Before founding Goodreads, Otis was a Software Engineer and Product Manager at Tickle.com. Monster Worldwide, the leading purveyor of online jobs, purchased the company in 2004. Otis graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Along with a passion for building websites, he’s also a voracious reader.

There are hundreds of book categories, and every category has more than tens of books. So, the user can find a lot of book resources here. Here, you are not only find the book, but also buy it, or download the free e-book. 
some free e-book
some kinds of book

User can easily choose the book that they like, because there is an search engine, select in categories,  compare with friend, or see the book review.

Beside book you also can have community and contact your friends, because this web is automatically connect with your social network so you won't feel lonely here.   In the community, you can join based on what you like, for example if you like scientific book you can meet the community of scientific book here, moreover you can also ask your favorite author directly, because they are here too!

 
some of friends who I meet

from Q&A

The other feature which I like is quote page, where you can find many famous people like C.S Lewis, Suzanne Collins, Ernest Hemingway, J.K Rowling, Mother Teressa, Bob Marley, Stephanie Meyer, and still many others.They give their quotations to you, and you will dig your motivation deeper.

Try this web, and you will like it!

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Senin, 20 Mei 2013

The Online Books Page






http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu is kind of website which provides million books for education that learners can read or download it freely. This is an interesting online library because there are many kinds of books are available in here. There are five menu; Book Online, News, Features, Archives and Indexes, and The Inside story. Each menu divides in some categories.

“Book Online” has six categories; Search our Listings, New Listing, Author, Titles, Subject, and Serials. Those categories are for make learners find the books easily because learners find can the book by the author, titles or serials.

“News” has three categories; Find more free books at your library, Blog (Everybody's Libraries), and Latest Book Listings.  The content of the news is about this website.

Archives and indexes” has some major sources and indexes in all language which is general and specialized. Some of the categories are non-English languages, children’s literature, drama, historical, music, dance, poetry, politics, religion and many others.

“The Inside story” provide information about THE ONLINE BOOK PAGE. In here learners can find what The Book Online Page is, ask question, request or see some list of book in progress, and the other link for online book.

Let’s improve our English by enrich vocabulary and knowledge!!!! J Gung ho!!!

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Minggu, 12 Mei 2013

The New York Times








One of the ways for mastering reading comprehension is by reading a lot. Many kinds of reading text which can use for practicing such as novel, poetry, newspaper, etc.  For this posting I would like to tell you about newspaper website from New York, that is, The New York Times (an International news) website. This site categorize the news in four section, they are today’s paper, most popular, video , and U.S Edition . Not only that, but also you can find the news in the specific section because about eighteen menu are available in this site. Moreover, each menu provides sub menu. For instance, in World menu, there are five categories ; Africa, Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe , and Middle East. By reading this site you can enrich common vocabulary in newspaper. 
This site also provides digital subscriber, so can get updating   news on your smartphone , tablet, or all  digital access. But you should pay for that apps. Each apps has different price.
link : http://www.nytimes.com/



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Minggu, 05 Mei 2013

Improve Your Reading Skills with Leeds English Language School

Improve Reading Skill
By Irma Fitriani

http://free-online-english.com/  or
http://free-online-english.com/index.php/category/home/reading

the homepage of the web 

Leeds English Language School web is a web accredited by British Council and private  language school in Leeds, UK. There are many learning materials from the school that made available to students who learning English as second language. This web provide service in many language include Bahasa Indonesia. The user can choose some skill in learning English, such as Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing, and some Test such as IELTS test. Moreover, this web also let the users who interest to have study in UK to know more about it, and also contact them more.

In reading, the users can choose level base on their skill there are Elementary until Advanced. For Intermediate students, there are 3 choices there are Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, and Upper Intermediate.  After you choose the reading text you can directly go to some the test. Basically, both test and text in every Intermediate level have the same form, but mostly text and test in higher level will be more difficult.
the example of the text and the test


What I like most from this web is, it has a colourful display and well ordered lesson, so it make the new users easy to use the web. 



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Sabtu, 04 Mei 2013

The American Reader







The American Reader is kind of website which provides a monthly print and digital literary journal. There are four topics in this site; fiction and poetry which is new and updating, criticism that is interesting topic, in conversation (we can learn about life from other people), and day in letter that contains with letters from previous people such as Dylan Thomas (1934). Those are inspiring literary and critical conversation among a new generation of readers. You can read all of the topics by online. If you want to know more about the site, at the end of the site there are link about us and contact. You can also find them on facebook to get updating posting and you might give your email address to stay in touch with them.
This site also provides a bookcase, you can read the summary of the book but if you want to read the whole book you might buy it. This site only gives you the link for purchasing.

visit this site : http://theamericanreader.com/



Dylan Thomas

A Conversation with Jamaica Kincaid
“But to damn it because it’s angry…. They always say that about black people: ‘those angry black people.’ And why? You’re afraid that there might be some truth to their anger. It might be justified…”



Web Evaluation for Pre Intermediate-Upper Intermediate

2nd for Reading Evaluation
by Irma Fitriani

eclearningenglish is a web where  you can have a course and learning independently by yourself. There are many source for learning English such as do listening, reading, grammar, idioms, pronunciation, and many other.

In reading you can choose some categories, then you will find many articles include the test in it. 

the example of the reading text and the test

Not only vocabulary test, you can also have word puzzle test, matching word test, and many others. 
I believe you will find much more interesting reading time when you already use the web.

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