Reading A-Z

Reading A-Z
by Irma Fitriani

http://www.readinga-z.com/

the  homepage of the web

Reading A-Z is a websites that provides more than a thousand resources about reading materials, lesson plans for teacher, tips for learning especially in reading, also poems. this web help you to learn independently and enrich you in having reading resources. There are more than 2500 downloadable books (including English, Spanish, and French version) and a thousand teaching learning materials. The user also can buy the book in order the book page. But to get the most web facilities you have to be one of the members of the web. Even though, some of the books could be downloaded freely.

It also help you to get affordable, easily accessible, developmentally appropriate teaching and learning solutions to all educators and student who need them. 

For teachers, this web provide teachers forum where teacher can share ideas, experience, or discuss the lesson plan and curriculum.

This web won many awards such as, 2011-2009 Teacher' Choice award,  2006 technology and learning award of excellence, 2004 parents' choice recommended awards, 2003 top website of the month, and still many others.

To ease the user this web has a tutorial, leveled materials, clear categorize, and eye catching appearance. So, the user will not get confused and use the web smoothly.

one of the free books which can be downloaded

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Reading Comprehension and Test Preparation

Reading Comprehension and Test Preparation
By: Irma Fitriani

http://esl-bits.net/main2.htm

the home page of the web

This web is made for increase your reading skill in general, and prepare yourself in reading test in particular. The exercise sets are adapted from the material in Cambridge Practice Test for PET  by Loise Hashemi and Barbara Thomas, Cambridge University Press, and other people who are competent in making test for intermediate learners.

There are 5 types of the exercises, they are:
1. Sings: choosing a meaning when the test show the sign.
2. Details:  true or false from a reading text.
3. Matching: reading a description then match them with the best situation in the order.
4.  Gist asking questions about a reading text.
5. Gap: Fill the missing word from a reading text.

If you like to test your reading skill with having so much test which are made by the professional, this  web is your right choice. 

the example of the tests

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The Language Lab

The Language Lab
By: Irma Fitriani

http://www.language-lab.org

 

the appereance of the web

Just like its name this web is a place where you can enrich you language skill through reading the current issues and do some exercise. This web provides you in three language, British English, American English, and France. make sure you choose the England or America flag. 

There are four main sub menu on the web, there are lesson menu where you can find a lot of reading text, games menu where you can try to play a crossword, forum menu where teachers can share ideas and have discussion among other teacher from around the world, FAQ-Forum Answer and Question, where you could find the answer of your question about the web.

Finally I can say that, if you just spend 15 minutes of your time each day to explore and try this web you will have better skill in reading and vocabulary.

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Adult Learning Activities

Adult Learning Activities

by: Irma Fitriani

http://www.cdlponline.org

(Up, the homepage of the web ; Down, some activities)

This website is a right place for build reading skills and life skill. Here you can find many reading skills from different topic. There are 11 topics here there are health, service , nature, money, law, education, family, housing , and work. Every topic has more than twenty article that you can chose. In reading the article you can also listening the article and do some activities such as matching game, listen than spell a word, and answer the reading evaluation.

This web is is made in United States exactly in California so they mostly provide articles from United States and some others from Europe, Africa, and Asia. However those article will improve your knowledge at least your reading and vocabulary comprehension.

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Exam English

To know how good your English you might do some test. The test will show us the level that we have. This time I would like to tell you about www.examenglish.com. This web site provides the most important international ESL/EFL exams: IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC, and the Cambridge ESOL exams such as CAE, FCE, and PET.  Every exam room has explanation about the test and also they tell us about the test information such as how we can get the real test because this site just for practicing. You will do the test by online.

If you confuse about which exam that you should take, you can take the free level tests. Those are grammar, vocabulary, and listening test level. Then you will know your level.

This web site also contains with vocabulary and grammar material. Not only that but also mobile apps are availabe in there, so you can have exam on your moblie , it means you can do the test every where and every time.

Note : Do the exam continuously  and individually to improve your english skill. Gung ho !

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Read Book Online

               Read Book Online

One of the ways to improve reading skill is by reading a lot, in this posting I would like to tell you about www.readbookonline.net. This site provides many kinds of reading texts, they are fictions/novels , short stories ,poems, essay, plays, and notifications. You can find about six thousand ebooks from hundreds of authors,  such as  Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen,  Edgar Allan Poe, and more authors. It’s easy to use this site, you can find the reading text by choosing the chatagories on left side or sort by the authors or all tiltes which are alphabetis from A to Z,so it’s easier to find the text. This site also has three special pages which provide many award winning publications. Those are Greatest Novels of The 20th Century, Works from Nobel Prize Winners, and Pulitzer Prize Winning Books. At the end of the page there is a link to contact the site, if you have questions or coment.

Note:  The weaknesses of this site is you need to read the text online because you couldn’t download it to print it, but you can copy the text then print it, it’s up to you . 

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Awesome Story and Article

Awesome Story and Article
By: Irma Fitriani

http://www.awesomestories.com/

Awesome stories is a web that provide the users to have newest article specifically and story (mostly about real past events) in many categories.it has several categories they are biography, disasters, trial, flicks, history, philosophy, sports, and arts. Every category has more than a hundred article in it. It doesn't only has  article and story but also visual vocabulary, lesson plans, radio, lesson materials slide shows, video (watching news) , and audio clip ( listening story), documents ( book and other educated resources), images (about world's historical moments). The article and story it support by many experts in education from United states and the main webs is at the Michigan

The web's aim is to help educators and individuals find original sources located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government created website.This website is really helpful to enrich the users' knowledge so much especially abut the recent news and wold's historical moments.

some of the stories in the web

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BrainPOP

BrainPOP

(Animated Educational Site)
By: Irma Fitriani

http://www.brainpop.com/

Left,outside appearance;Right,inside one of the page

subjects in the web

Brainpop is an animated educational site which have educational contents that support educators, engage students, and bolsters achievement. It provides many content with a specific materials in every subject, they have 6 subject here-English, science, mathematics, social studies, music and arts,  and engineering and technology-. It also has many sophisticated applications, such as educational movies, free games, tips, and still many more. In educational movie, it has more than a hundred movies that the users could get by doing registration first, it spend a few dollars. but don't worry, it also has some free movies.

In learning English, BrainPOP has several main study such as reading, grammar, writing, and book references. Specifically, in reading the users can choose what are they concern because it provides them much alternative in reading.

I think this website is different, because here students can improve their knowledge not from reading text but from animated movie which is really interesting without any buffering. I am sure students can spend a long time to learn from this web.  It is very useful for the one who are really love to watch and lazy to read or students with who are have a problem to concentrate.

 some selection in reading

one of the movie in reading section

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Into the Book

Into the Book

(Reading from Different Way)
by: Irma Fitriani

the appearance of the text

Categorize: Reading Text

http://reading.ecb.org/student/index.html

This website is an interactive website which was developed by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board, with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and a team of experienced educators. It is produced by Wisconsin Public Television and the Agency for Instructional Technology. The aims are to improve students’ ability in thinking and their reading comprehension. Students also can watch video of real classroom where a group of ordinary students use powerful learning strategies when reading— visualize, predict, summarize, etc.

I think this website is interesting because, here students can do reading comprehension activities with many reading texts in colourful and prim display. Students will not bored easily because the display is not shown an ordinary homepage but show them an animation book.

Here teachers have their own webs with teacher featuring music, video clips, classroom design ideas, posters, teacher guides lesson, lesson plans, and lots more.

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GFClearnfree

GFClearnfree

(Studying Many Things and Entertaining)

by: Irma Fitriani

This website provides the users to improve their ability in computer, math, and of course reading. It has 750 different lessons and can for 200 countries in different territories all over the world. It provides many languages from many countries so for the one who are not using English can easily use this website. In reading, the users can find many reading text, literature, vocabulary exercise and many others. It also has a good display with eye catching button and good orderly of the pages, so the users will not get bored easily. The best thing is the users can have all of those, freely. Students can read and listening English text. There are approximately 140 reading. In reading text itself there are many kinds of topic so the students can find their favourite topic and add their references about the other topic. I believe that by using this website it will help adults at all levels become better readers and help non-native speakers improve their English vocabulary and reading comprehension. 

When the students are tired, they can try a game that makes your ability in reading and vocabulary boost. Not only practice reading you can also have chatting, discussion, watch videos, and many others.

For teacher, this website can help them to increase students motivation in reading, understanding technology, and math. The interesting display will attract students to use it with them. There are also others service like game, video that really liked by the students.  

 (Some kinds of themes in the text, one of the game)

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Time for Kids

Time for Kids

(News and Sophisticated Application)
By : Irma Fitriani

the appearance of the blog

This website is like a weekly classroom news magazine with wide news from around the world which is made by kids and teenagers, so it have different angle. I am sure it is the best website which provide the have nonfiction texts. not only news student can also learn social studies, science, or math.  

Here are some applications where the teachers and students could use :

• The Magazine : great writing and vivid imagery help make reading a blast for students.
• Digital Resources : Exclusive, subscriber only access to great teaching resources such as lesson plans and worksheet, video with high quality resolution, read aloud, slide show, power word, teacher guide, quizzes, even debate.
• Common Core State Standards : Every issue of the classroom magazine addresses.
• TIME magazine : 1 year ( 56 issue) of the iconic news magazine included with full year subscription for 10 or more students.
• and still many others.

This website provide many items for teaching and students in teaching learning process, and if you typical of a person who like to get newest information from around the world, this website could be one of your best choice.

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News in Levels

News in Levels

Reading newspaper can also help student to improve their skill in English, here I would like to tell you about  www.newsinlevels.com. This website shows you the other methods to improve you reading skill in English. It helps you to enrich your vocabulary and also listening skill, because they provide many articles also with the audio and video. They will lead you level by level:  Level one for beginner, level two for intermediate, and level three for advanced. Each level has seven sub menu (articles) ; news, sport, nature, history, interesting, funny and information. That’s kind of articles that you can find in this website. If you don’t know your level yet, you can find out in “Test your level” room or if you get confused about how to use this website, just open room “how to use”.

They also provide online dictionary , Google and Longman. Then if you want asking question or giving  comment , you can contact them in “contact” room, or you want to have a discussion, it’s below the articles that you read, you should use your Facebook account for discussion section. 

you only need 10 minutes every section

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